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Primes and Scores: An Essay on Market Imperfections

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  • Jarrow, Robert A
  • O'Hara, Maureen

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This paper investigates the reported relative mispricing of primes and scores to the underlying stock. Given transaction costs, the authors establish arbitrage-based bounds on prime and score prices. They then develop a new nonparametric statistical technique to test whether prime and score prices violate these bounds. They find that prime and score prices do exceed stock prices, and often by a considerable amount. They demonstrate that this increased value is most likely due to the score's ability to save on the costs of dynamic hedging. They also show how short sale and trust size constraints impede the ability to arbitrage price disparities. Copyright 1989 by American Finance Association.

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Article provided by American Finance Association in its journal Journal of Finance.

Volume (Year): 44 (1989)
Issue (Month): 5 (December)
Pages: 1263-87

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Handle: RePEc:bla:jfinan:v:44:y:1989:i:5:p:1263-87

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  1. John R. Ezzell & James A. Miles & J. Harold Mulherin, 2001. "Is there Really a When-Issued Premium?," Claremont Colleges Working Papers 2001-34, Claremont Colleges.
  2. Michael R. Powers & David M. Schizer & Martin Shubik, 2003. "Market Bubbles and Wasteful Avoidance: Tax and Regulatory Constraints on Short Sales," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1413, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
  3. Gagnon, Louis & Karolyi, G. Andrew, 2004. "Multi-market Trading and Arbitrage," Working Paper Series 2004-9, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics.
  4. Charupat, Narat & Prisman, Eliezer Z., 1997. "Financial Innovations and Arbitrage Pricing in Economies with Frictions: Revisited," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 74(2), pages 435-447, June.
  5. Schultz, Paul & Shive, Sophie, 2010. "Mispricing of dual-class shares: Profit opportunities, arbitrage, and trading," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(3), pages 524-549, December.
  6. Huckins, Nancy White, 1995. "Repackaging cashflows and the creation of value: The case of primes and scores," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 4(2-3), pages 123-142.
  7. Henderson, Brian J. & Pearson, Neil D., 2011. "The dark side of financial innovation: A case study of the pricing of a retail financial product," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(2), pages 227-247, May.
  8. Simone Cerreia-Vioglio & Fabio Maccheroni & Massimo Marinacci, 2012. "Put-Call Parity and Market Frictions," Working Papers 447, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.

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