The presence of purchasing power parity is often attributed to the exploitation of arbitrage opportunities in goods … limited support for a simple arbitrage view. The deviations of real exchange rates and trade from trend are virtually … reversion. Both may, of course, reflect expectations of trade responses, opening an indirect role for incipient arbitrage in …

that CIP violations imply arbitrage opportunities only if uncollateralized interbank lending rates are riskless. In the … absence of observable riskless discount rates, we extract them empirically using a simple no-arbitrage framework. They deliver …-currency basis swap rates well. The no-arbitrage benchmarks account for about two thirds of the alleged CIP deviations, while the …

-financial-crisis regulatory environment. Global banks mainly use such funding to finance liquid, near risk-free arbitrage positions--in particular …, the interest on excess reserves arbitrage and the covered interest rate parity arbitrage. In this environment, we examine … global banks to the reform was a cutback in arbitrage positions that relied on unsecured funding, rather than a reduction in …

for foreign exchanges) data, it is found that risk-free arbitrage opportunities--free lunch--do occur in the foreign … pair and (b) triangular arbitrage relationship involving three currency pairs. The latter occur much more often than the … former. Such arbitrage opportunities tend to occur when the markets are active and volatile. Over the 12-year, tick …

securitized mortgages. This paper uses the impact of one such sharp rule, the conforming loan limit, on securitization volumes. We … securitization activity in years following such a billion-dollar disaster. Such increase is larger in neighborhoods for which such a …

that banks used this form of securitization to concentrate, rather than disperse, financial risks in the banking sector …