As part of the series of the „Finance Research Seminar“, VGSF welcomes Eduardo Davila from Yale University to present his research paper.
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The Value of Arbitrage
This paper studies the social value of closing price differentials in financial markets. We show that arbitrage gaps exactly correspond to the marginal social value of executing an arbitrage trade. Moreover, arbitrage gaps and price impact measures are sufficient to compute the total social value from closing an arbitrage gap. Theoretically, we show that, for a given arbitrage gap, the total social value of arbitrage is higher in more liquid markets. We compute the welfare gains from closing arbitrage gaps for covered interest parity violations and several dual-listed companies. The estimated social value of arbitrage varies substantially across applications.
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