This work uses financial markets connected by arbitrage relations to investigate the dynamics of price and liquidity discovery, which refer to the cross-instrument forecasting power for prices and liquidity, respectively. Specifically, we seek to understand the linkage between the cheapest to...

Modern corporations have increasingly been adopting a decentred, layered, and multi-jurisdictional form as a strategy of boundary manipulation known amongst tax lawyers and accountants as "regulatory arbitrage". The argument we put forward in this article is that the scholarly work that treats...

This paper identifies the "idiosyncratic basis", the residual premia computed from stripping away the hypothetical cross-currency basis (CCB) from the cross-currency credit spread (CCCS) of eligible senior corporate dollardenominated bonds relative to their hypothetical euro-denominated...

In the past years, there has been an extensive investigation of the class of stochastic volatility models for the evaluation of options and complex derivatives. These models have proven to be extremely useful in generalizing the classic Black-Scholes economy and accounting for discrepancies...

Algorithmic trading, so popular nowadays, uses many strategies that are algorithmizable and promise profitability. This research answers the question whether it is possible to successfully use a convexity arbitrage strategy in a bond portfolio in financial practice. It should provide a positive...

In the past years, there has been an extensive investigation of the class of stochastic volatility models for the evaluation of options and complex derivatives. These models have proven to be extremely useful in generalizing the classic Black-Scholes economy and accounting for discrepancies...

Stock prices are well known to exhibit behaviors that are difficult to model mathematically. Individual stocks are observed to exhibit short term price reversals and long term momentum, while their industries only exhibit momentum. Here we show that individual stocks can be modeled by simple...

Focusing on capital asset returns governed by a factor structure, the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) is a one-period model, in which preclusion of arbitrage over static portfolios of these assets leads to a linear relation between the expected return and its covariance with the factors. The APT,...

This paper explores the relationship between variation in liquidity and mispricing. Mispricing is severe among stocks with high variation in liquidity. Among underpriced (overpriced) stocks, stocks with high variation in liquidity are more underpriced (overpriced). The mispricing is more...

We investigate stale reference pricing and liquidity provision in dark pools using proprietary, participant-level regulatory data. We show a substantial amount of stale trading occurs, imposing large adverse selection costs on passive dark pool participants. Consistent with these costs, HFTs...

We explore arbitrage activities for cross-listed stocks and develop a methodology to study the effect of information latency in high-frequency trading. The strategy is a hybrid between triangular arbitrage and pairs trading. The strategy can be generalized to multiple cross-listed stocks...

This paper investigates arbitrage activities in China’s stock market to examine whether arbitrageurs destabilize stock prices. We focus on reversal anomaly and construct a measure of arbitrage intensity, coreversal, which captures the abnormal return correlation among stocks on which a...

Financial advisor misconduct often has devastating consequences, leading lawmakers to seek tightened investor protections at the federal level. But many advisors can choose whether to be federally regulated or instead overseen by state insurance regulators, giving advisors with a history of...

This study investigates whether the MAX effect on the Korean stock market is more significant for overpriced stocks. Defining MAX as the maximum daily return for the previous month following Bali et al. (2011), we show that long low MAX and short high MAX strategies earn significantly positive...

Communications in connection with an initial public offering (IPO) are excluded from the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA). Not surprisingly, IPO issuers do not share projections publicly—the liability risk is...

How can we assess whether macro-prudential regulations are having their intended effects? If these regulations are optimal, their marginal benefit of addressing externalities should equal their marginal cost of distorting risk-sharing. These risk-sharing distortions will manifest as trading...

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) are often considered long-term and less sensitive to global shocks as they involve large amounts of capital investment that are costly to reverse. This study examines whether a pandemic arbitrage through “distance” in COVID-19 infection rates impacts FDI....

We investigate the relationship between latency arbitrage and trading via frequent batch auctions (FBA). We show that increases in single and cross-market latency arbitrage opportunities (LAOs) are linked to an economically meaningful increase in FBA activity, which implies that slower traders...

This paper proposes a novel bond return (price or yield curve) prediction methodology, unifying the classical no arbitrage pricing framework, which is ubiquitous and serves as the fundamental theoretical building block in mathematical finance, and empirical asset (bond) pricing methodologies,...

Modigliani and Miller showed that the market value of the company is independent of its capital structure, and suggested that dividend policy makes no difference to this law of one price. We experimentally test the MM theorem in a complete market with two simultaneously traded assets, employing...

Since September 1, 2014, the renminbi (RMB) offshore market in Taiwan has been started on according a cross-strait MOU. A completed RMB market in the Chinese Economic Area therefore has been established. Due to political and economic disruptions, such as the aftermath of the global tsunami,...

Trading algorithms are an integral component of modern asset markets. In two experimental markets for long-lived correlated assets we examine the impact of alternative types of arbitrage-seeking algorithms. These arbitrage robot traders vary in their latency and whether they make or take market...

Contrary to the claims made by several authors, a financial market model in which the price of a risky security follows a reflected geometric Brownian motion is not arbitrage-free. In fact, such a model is unsuitable for contingent claim valuation because it violates even the weakest...

This paper examines how Chinese banks used on-balance sheet shadow loans for regulatory arbitrage and whether the financial market priced in the banks’ use of shadow loans and the resulting vulnerabilities in 2016–2020. It finds that banks chose to window dress their regulatory capital ratio...