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Rethinking capital structure arbitrage: a price discovery perspective

Avino, D. and Lazar, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8761-0754 (2020) Rethinking capital structure arbitrage: a price discovery perspective. The Journal of Alternative Investments, 22 (4). pp. 75-91. ISSN 1520-3255

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To link to this item DOI: 10.3905/jai.2020.1.093

Abstract/Summary

The capital structure arbitrage strategy exploits the discrepancies between the credit default swap and equity markets. It assumes that both markets instantaneously react to new information, so it fails to take into account the lead-lag relationships between the prices in the two markets and their form of cointegration. Here we introduce three new alternative strategies that exploit the information provided by the time-varying price discovery of the equity and credit markets and the cointegration of the two markets. We implement the strategies for both US and European obligors and find that these outperform traditional arbitrage trading during the financial crisis. Furthermore, the returns of the new strategies have lower correlation with market returns than the standard capital structure arbitrage.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Henley Business School > ICMA Centre
ID Code:83624
Publisher:Institutional Investor Inc.

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