Research Literature on Cointegration and Pairs Trading
Summary
This document is a broad reading list for research on cointegration, statistical arbitrage, and pairs trading. It points readers toward foundational work on cointegration testing and error correction, empirical studies of relative-value strategies, and books covering quantitative methods and implementation. The references span equity markets, international and regional markets, real estate, futures, foreign exchange, high-frequency data, and adaptive or regime-sensitive approaches.
The collection also includes work on strategy selection, spread modeling, portfolio construction, trading costs, risk controls, and performance across market environments. That range can help a researcher identify both methodological starting points and applied extensions. The list is not annotated, ranked, or organized into a prescribed reading sequence, and it does not summarize the findings or quality of the cited studies. Some entries are duplicated or contain inconsistent bibliographic details, so readers should verify citations and assess each paper’s methods, data period, and transaction-cost assumptions before relying on reported performance.
Key ideas
- The bibliography includes foundational research on cointegration and error-correction methods.
- It surveys pairs-trading and statistical-arbitrage studies across asset classes and markets.
- Several references examine selection methods, spread dynamics, costs, risk, and changing volatility regimes.
- The list is unannotated, so readers must inspect each source and verify its citation details.
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# Looking for materials regarding Pair Trading # Looking for materials regarding Pair Trading For my master thesis, I wish to work onto Cointegration and Pair Trading. I was wondering if any of you had some scholar/blog material recommendations. Best Regards ## Answer by Artem Korol (score 7) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/31970 Here is a literature list from my masters thesis on stat arb. > Lederman, J., (1996). Market Neutral: Long/Short Strategies for Every Market Environment, 2. – 3. lpp. Gatev, E., Goetzman, W. N., Rouwenhorst, K. G. (1999). Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative Value Arbitrage Rule, Review of Financial Studies, Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies, vol. 19(3), pp 797-827. doi:10.1093/rfs/hhj020 Vidyamurthy, G., (2004). Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis, 75. – 79. lpp. Avellaneda, M., Lee, J.-H. (2008). Statistical arbitrage in the US equities market. Quantitative Finance, 10(7): pp 761 - 782. Chan, E., (2013). 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