Investor Tax-Trading Opportunities and Discounts on Closed-End Mutual Funds,
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Discounts on closed-end mutual funds are a puzzle to financial economists because arbitrage activities should eliminate discounts in a perfect capital market. In this paper I develop a model that explains discounts, using Merton’s option pricing theorem. By holding shares of a closed-end mutual fund, investors lose valuable tax-trading opportunities asso- ciated with the constituent securities of the closed-end mutual fund’s portfolio. However, investors can take advantage of all tax-trading opportunities by directly holding the closed- end mutual fund’s portfolio. I also show that both variances of the individual securities and correlations among securities in the portfolio are important factors in determining the magnitude of discounts. The Journal of Financial Research, Spring 1994, XVII( 1): 65-75. (Reprinted with permission of The Journul of Financial Research.)
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