The 1998 failure of Long-Term Capital Management (‘LTCM’), a very large and prominent Greenwich, Connecticut based hedge fund, is said to have nearly brought down the world financial system. Over the years, few financial debacles such as LTCM, have been so often written about or discussed...

Companies are cross-listed on multiple exchanges in different countries to take advantage of different market features. Due to difference in time zones, it is normally quite impossible to take advantage of instantaneous information spillover from market to market to generate abnormal return....