Arbitrage and Valuation in the Market for Standard and Poor's Depositary Receipts
研究标准普尔存托凭证（SPDRs）的定价，发现其折价不显著，套利成本低且赎回机制有效，但中型股SPDRs存在较大折价，且两者收益波动不过度。
This paper examines pricing in the market for depositary receipts, securities designed to track the performance of a stock index that trade like shares of stock. Arbitrage costs are low because these assets have low fundamental risk, low transactions costs, and high dividend yields. We find that Standard and Poor's Depositary Receipts (SPDRs), or spiders, do not trade at economically significant discounts, unlike closed-end mutual fund shares. Although individual investors invest much more heavily in SPDRs than in S&P 500 stock, investor sentiment is not an important determinant of the discount. The SPDRs redemption feature facilitates arbitrage so that sophisticated traders can take advantage of and eliminate mispricing. However, we also report a larger, economically significant discount for MidCap SPDRs. MidCap SPDRs are designed to track the performance of the S&P MidCap 400 index, an index of moderate capitalization firms, and are expected to have higher arbitrage costs. Finally, we find that SPDRs and Mi dCap SPDRs returns are not excessively volatile, also unlike closed-end funds.