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Identifying the Effect of Stock Indexing: Impetus or Impediment to Arbitrage and Price Discovery?

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  • Ahn, Byung Hyun
  • Patatoukas, Panos N.

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The rise of stock indexing has raised concerns that index investing impedes arbitrage and degrades price discovery. This article uses Russell’s reconstitution to identify the causal effect of index investing on information arbitrage and price discovery. Although index investing has no discernible effect on the ability of arbitrageurs to trade and impound news into the prices of large- and mid-cap stocks, we find that index investing increases the speed of price adjustment to news for micro-cap stocks. Our causal evidence identifies the relaxation of arbitrage constraints as a mechanism through which indexing facilitates informed trading for more arbitrage-constrained micro-cap stocks.

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  • Ahn, Byung Hyun & Patatoukas, Panos N., 2022. "Identifying the Effect of Stock Indexing: Impetus or Impediment to Arbitrage and Price Discovery?," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(5), pages 2022-2062, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:57:y:2022:i:5:p:2022-2062_12
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