How to recognize opportunities: Heterarchical search in a Wall Street trading room

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• dc.contributor.author Beunza Ibáñez, Danielca
• dc.contributor.author Stark, Davidca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T12:07:49Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-26T12:07:49Z
• dc.date.issued 2004-01-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:08:23Z
• dc.description.abstract Our task in this paper is to analyze the organization of trading in the era of quantitative finance. To do so, we conduct an ethnography of arbitrage, the trading strategy that best exemplifies finance in the wake of the quantitative revolution. In contrast to value and momentum investing, we argue, arbitrage involves an art of association - the construction of equivalence (comparability) of properties across different assets. In place of essential or relationa l characteristics, the peculiar valuation that takes place in arbitrage is based on an operation that makes something the measure of something else - associating securities to each other. The process of recognizing opportunities and the practices of making novel associations are shaped by the specific socio-spatial and socio-technical configurations of the trading room. Calculation is distributed across persons and instruments as the trading room organizes interaction among diverse principles of valuation.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=735
• dc.identifier.citation K. Knorr Cetina et A. Preda (ed.), The sociology of financial markets, Oxford University Press, October 2004
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/1067
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 735
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• dc.subject.keyword arbitrage
• dc.subject.keyword trading
• dc.subject.keyword heterarchy
• dc.subject.keyword Management and Organization Studies
• dc.title How to recognize opportunities: Heterarchical search in a Wall Street trading roomca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper