the combination of hedging demand and tighter limits to arbitrage, which in turn reflect a tighter management of risks and …

Arbitrage ensures that covered interest parity holds. The condition is central to price foreign exchange forwards and … interbank lending rates, and reflects the efficient functioning of markets. Normally, deviations from arbitrage, if any, last … seconds and reach a few basis points. After the Lehman bankruptcy, instead, arbitrage profits were large, persisted for months …