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possibility of controlling asset price volatility through financial innovation. We first give sufficient conditions on preferences … and endowments implying that whatever is the innovation which completes markets, it also reduces volatility, typically in … outside this class, of financial innovation which decreases equilibrium price volatility. The existence is obtained under …
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generic existence of financial innovation which decreases equilibrium price volatility (as well as innovation which increases …
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In this paper, the authors study the possibility of controlling asset price volatility through financial innovation in …
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We study endogenous uncertainty stemming from the introduction of new financial assets, so as to evaluate the risks as well as the welfare gains of financial innovation. The introduction of financial assets to hedge individual risk can lead to the risk of default, which is a collective risk. The...
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This paper proposes that the introduction of non-redundant assets can endogenously modify trader participation in financial markets, which can lead to a lower market premium and a higher interest rate. We demonstrate this mechanism in a tractable exchange economy with endogenous participation....
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We study the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions within the framework of an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors, and an intermediary. The firms face unique investment opportunities that arise in their business operations and can be undertaken at given...
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We evaluate the effects of new financial markets in a two-period incomplete markets model with heterogenous agents. For analytical tractability, we focus on the special case where utility is exponential and risks are normally distributed. We provide a complete characterization of life-cycle...
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In this paper I present a model where a financial intermediary decides to open new security markets and offer them to boundedly rational investors. I show first that, if consumers have downward biased priors about payoffs, then no trade in the new securities may be verified. It is shown that no...
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