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A market maker observes that the daily price-change serial covariance Cov(Δ P_t, Δ P_t-1) for a stock is -0.0025.

According to Roll's effective spread estimator, what is the implied effective bid-ask spread?

  1. 0.05
  2. The estimator is undefined.
  3. 0.01
  4. 0.10

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