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Beyond Basis Basics: Liquidity Demand and Deviations from the Law of One Price / Todd M. Hazelkorn, Tobias J. Moskowitz, Kaushik Vasudevan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hazelkorn, Todd M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26773.
- NBER working paper series no. w26773
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Beyond Basis Basics
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- We argue that deviations from the law of one price between futures and spot prices, known as bases, capture important information about liquidity demand for equity market exposure in global equity index futures markets. We show that bases (1) co-move with dealer and investor futures positions, (2) are contemporaneously positively correlated with spot and futures markets with the same sign, and (3) negatively predict futures and spot market returns with the same sign. These findings are uniquely consistent with our liquidity demand model and distinct from other explanations for bases, such as arbitrage opportunities or intermediary balance sheet costs. We show persistent supply-demand imbalances for equity index exposure reflected in bases, where compensation for meeting liquidity demand for that exposure is large (5-6% annual premium).
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2020.
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