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Rational limits to arbitrage

Zigrand, Jean-Pierre ORCID: 0000-0002-7784-4231 (2001) Rational limits to arbitrage. Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers (392). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

It is often argued that asset prices exhibit patterns incompatible with the behaviour of rational, optimizing agents. This paper proposes a rational framework which generates asset prices which appear irrational. This is accomplished by studying rational expectations equilibria in the presence of two realistic market frictions: immediacy risk (agents have to submit their demand functions before they know the equilibrium price) and asset-specific orders (investors have to submit one seperate demand for each asset, which may not be contingent upon the prices of the other assets). We study some of the properties of such equilibria, in particular the prevalence of arbitrage and of informational inefficiencies.

Item Type: Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL: http://fmg.ac.uk
Additional Information: © 2001 The Author
Divisions: Financial Markets Group
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
JEL classification: G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G12 - Asset Pricing; Trading volume; Bond Interest Rates
D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D50 - General
D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
Date Deposited: 28 Aug 2009 16:24
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 22:50
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25068

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