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The Delivery Option on Forward Contracts: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Theodore M. Barnhill
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Abstract

Livingston contends that short futures/long cash traders can eliminate the potential costs of the quality option through use of a dynamic trading strategy. It is proposed here that if this is possible then futures prices will never reach a stable equilibrium. Alternatively, if Livingston's argument is flawed, then no risk-free arbitrage opportunities are likely to be available to either short cash/long futures or long cash/short futures traders. Under such conditions, futures prices will reach an equilibrium when the expected return and risk of each type position are equally attractive.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 343 - 349
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1988

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