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Cambridge Finance Workshop Series are usually held on Thursdays during term time. The workshops are an opportunity for those working in finance to present their latest results or papers.

Denis Gromb is Professor of Finance at INSEAD, where he teaches Corporate Finance.

 

Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion

Abstract:
We propose a continuous time infinite horizon equilibrium model of financial markets in which arbitrageurs have multiple valuable investment opportunities but face financial constraints. The investment opportunities, heterogeneous along different dimensions, are provided by pairs of
similar assets trading at different prices in segmented markets. By exploiting these opportunities, arbitrageurs alleviate the segmentation of markets, providing liquidity to other investors by intermediating their trades. We characterize the arbitrageurs’ optimal investment policy, and derive implications for market liquidity and asset prices. We show that liquidity is smallest, volatility is largest, correlations between asset pairs with uncorrelated fundamentals are largest, and correlations between asset pairs with highly correlated fundamentals are smallest for intermediate levels of arbitrageur wealth.

 

Date: 
Thursday, 30 April, 2015 - 13:00 to 14:00
Contact name: 
Kat Ndrepepaj
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Contact phone: 
01223768129
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Event location: 
Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
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