We study the dynamics of cash-and-carry arbitrage using the U.S. crude oil market. Sizable arbitrage-related inventory movements occur at the NYMEX futures contract delivery point but not at other storage locations where, instead, operational factors explain most inventory changes. We add to the...

The procedures used in corporate bond event studies to date fail to control for heteroskedasticity due to differences in return volatility by term-to-maturity, rating, and other factors resulting in low test power. Bond return standardization yields considerably more powerful tests. Also, due to...

Issues in the construction of corporate bond event studies using bond transaction data are explored. We show that the procedures used in studies to date have relatively low power because they fail to control for the substantial heteroskedasticity in bond returns due to differences in...