Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price
44 Pages Posted: 8 Dec 2009
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Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price
Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price
Date Written: November 2009
Abstract
In a model with multiple agents with different risk aversions facing margin constraints, we show how securities’ required returns are characterized both by their beta and their margins. Negative shocks to fundamentals make margin constraints bind, lowering risk free rates and raising Sharpe ratios of risky securities, especially for high-margin securities. Such a funding liquidity crisis gives rise to a “basis,” that is, a price gap between securities with identical cash-flows but different margins. In the time series, the basis depends on the shadow cost of capital which can be captured through the interest-rate spread between collateralized and uncollateralized loans, and, in the cross section, it depends on relative margins. We apply the model empirically to the CDS-bond basis and other deviations from the Law of One Price, and to evaluate the effects of unconventional monetary policy and lending facilities.
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