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A stock has a daily standard deviation of 2%. A dealer's average inventory is 5,000 shares of the 100stock, and they are quite risk-averse.

If volatility suddenly doubles to 4% per day, how should the inventory component of the spread change according to the Stoll (1978) model?

  1. It should double
  2. It should remain the same
  3. It should increase by √(2)
  4. It should quadruple

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