Shantaram P. Hegde Ben Branch imultaneous spot and futures trading in T-bills permits investors to construct S a combination of spot and futures positions that is a close substitute for a corresponding pure spot bill position. If the net returns on the spot-futures combination exceed the comparable
Are there arbitrage opportunities in the treasury-bond futures market?
โ Scribed by Robert W. Kolb; Gerald D. Gay; James V. Jordan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 700 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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โฆ Synopsis
S tling rapidity. This remarkable growth has fueled itself to a large extent with 'See Branch (1978), Capozza and Cornell (1979), Lang and Rasche (1978), Poole (1978), Puglisi (1978), Rendleman and Carabini (1979), and Vignola and Dale (1979, 1980). All of these articles are reprinted in Gay and Kolb (1982).
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
ersistent discrepancies between implied forward rates on the yield curve P and corresponding futures rates have been widely observed. For instance, in one of our samples, eight week-ahead forward-future spreads averaged nearly 70 discount basis points before 1982 and have since averaged about 30 bas
he underlying asset on a Treasury-bond futures contract in the Chicago T Board of Trade (CBT) is not a real asset, but is rather a hypothetical 15-yearmaturity government bond bearing an 8% coupon. Because the contract is settled using actual government bonds, the CBT is required to establish conver
More specifically, futures prices may influence storage and inventory decisions and may exact an important influence on production decisions. This is their price discovery function. Futures markets are seen as an efficient collector, processor, and disseminator of information. 'The large number of
long the reigning market for gold futures contracts, T introduced gold futures options in October of 1982. Immediate, sustained interest in the new contracts created a liquid market for options on COMEX gold futures contracts.' Trading in gold futures options occurs in close proximity to trading in