Price Manipulation and Quasi-Arbitrage

Gur Huberman and Werner Stanzl

Econometrica, 2004, vol. 72, issue 4, 1247-1275

Abstract: In an environment where trading volume affects security prices and where prices are uncertain when trades are submitted, quasi-arbitrage is the availability of a series of trades that generate infinite expected profits with an infinite Sharpe ratio. We show that when the price impact of trades is permanent and time-independent, only linear price-impact functions rule out quasi-arbitrage and thus support viable market prices. When trades have also a temporary price impact, only the permanent price impact must be linear while the temporary one can be of a more general form. We also extend the analysis to a time-dependent framework. Copyright The Econometric Society 2004.

Date: 2004
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