Download or read book Trading Asymmetric Information and Derivative Securities written by Huining Henry Cao and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pricing and Hedging of Derivative Securities written by Alexander Stremme and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Insider Trading written by Paul U. Ali and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insider trading has long been considered an endemic feature of the world's financial markets. It is unsurprising that the recent growth in mergers and acquisitions worldwide has been accompanied by a growth in insider trading, on a scale not witnessed since the 1980's takeovers boom. Insider Trading: Global Developments and Analysis brings together the latest law and finance research on insider trading. It provides expert coverage on the established US, European, and Asia-Pacific securities markets, as well as the key emerging markets of Brazil and the greater China region. Providing high interest and up-to-date content, the book features several recent cases, including that of Martha Stewart.

Download or read book Asset Pricing Under Asymmetric Information written by Markus Konrad Brunnermeier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of information is central to the academic debate on finance. This book provides a detailed, current survey of theoretical research into the effect on stock prices of the distribution of information, comparing and contrasting major models. It examines theoretical models that explain bubbles, technical analysis, and herding behavior. It also provides rational explanations for stock market crashes. Analyzing the implications of asymmetries in information is crucial in this area. This book provides a useful survey for graduate students.

Download or read book Pricing and hedging of derivative securities written by Alexander Stremme and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remedies to Informational Asymmetries in Stock Markets written by Peter-Jan Engelen and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2005 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other markets, stock markets are characterised by asymmetric information. If investors cannot distinguish high-quality from low-quality securities, they will value all securities as average resulting in the well known market for lemons. This decreases the allocative efficiency and social welfare by guiding resources to the least good investment opportunities. How can high-quality listed companies communicate with stock markets to distinguish themselves from low-quality listed companies? Although proponents of mandatory disclosure rules in securities markets will answer this question with far-reaching governmental regulation, it is jumping to conclusions and skipping devices that signal the true quality of the investment opportunities to the stock market. This book analyses the functioning of stock markets, in particular the dissemination of price-sensitive information on these markets. In order to evaluate the legal rules governing the dissemination of information from an economic perspective, an operational framework is needed to assess the current disclosure regulation with respect to allocative efficiency. The book replaces vague legal goals of securities regulation, such as investors' protection, by financial economic concepts, such as market efficiency and market liquidity. To enhance allocative efficiency, the book analyses the relevancy of mandatory disclosure rules, the use of trading halts in disseminating information during the opening hours of a stock exchange, the use of selective disclosure and the regulation of insider trading.

Download or read book Asset Pricing under Asymmetric Information written by Markus K. Brunnermeier and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asset prices are driven by public news and information that is often dispersed among many market participants. These agents try to infer each other's information by analyzing price processes. In the past two decades, theoretical research in financial economics has significantly advanced our understanding of the informational aspects of price processes. This book provides a detailed and up-to-date survey of this important body of literature. The book begins by demonstrating how to model asymmetric information and higher-order knowledge. It then contrasts competitive and strategic equilibrium concepts under asymmetric information. It also illustrates the dependence of information efficiency and allocative efficiency on the security structure and the linkage between both efficiency concepts. No-Trade theorems and market breakdowns due to asymmetric information are then explained, and the existence of bubbles under symmetric and asymmetric information is investigated. The remainder of the survey is devoted to contrasting different market microstructure models that demonstrate how asymmetric information affects asset prices and traders' information , which provide a theoretical explanation for technical analysis and illustrate why some investors "chase the trend." The reader is then introduced to herding models and informational cascades, which can arise in a setting where agents' decision-making is sequential. The insights derived from herding models are used to provide rational explanations for stock market crashes. Models in which all traders are induced to search for the same piece of information are then presented to provide a deeper insight into Keynes' comparison of the stock market with a beauty contest. The book concludes with a brief summary of bank runs and their connection to financial crises.

Download or read book Stock Market Liquidity written by François-Serge Lhabitant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together today's best financial minds across the world to discuss the issue of liquidity in today's markets. It is often proxied by trade-based measures (such as trading volume, frequency of trading, dollar value of shares trade, etc), order based measures and price impact measures.

Download or read book The Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets written by Jeffrey A. Frankel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foreign exchange market is the largest, fastest-growing financial market in the world. Yet conventional macroeconomic approaches do not explain why people trade foreign exchange. At the same time, they fail to explain the short-run determinants of the exchange rate. These nine innovative essays use a microstructure approach to analyze the workings of the foreign exchange market, with special emphasis on institutional aspects and the actual behavior of market participants. They examine the volume of transactions, heterogeneity of traders, the time of day and location of trading, the bid-ask spread, and the high level of exchange rate volatility that has puzzled many observers. They also consider the structure of the market, including such issues as nontransparency, asymmetric information, liquidity trading, the use of automated brokers, the relationship between spot and derivative markets, and the importance of systemic risk in the market. This timely volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the economics of international finance.

Download or read book Taking Asymmetric Information Seriously written by Carolyn Sissoko and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the problem of asymmetric information that exists in financial markets between the public and the market makers, that is, the securities dealers who support the stability of asset prices by carrying inventory over short periods of time. Market makers in modern markets typically have access to information about a broad range of markets and trade on the basis of this information. While trade on fundamental information about the value of assets is necessary for asset prices to be informative, trade on market information, such as the presence in the market of a highly motivated seller, often does not make prices more informative. Modern regulation in the U.S. has generally taken a permissive approach both to trading on market information, and also to the proliferation of conflicts of interest that increase profit opportunities from trading on market information. This paper critiques this regulatory approach by explaining that economic theory does not in general indicate that there are efficiency gains from permitting trading on market information, by describing an alternate model of a financial market, the pre-1986 London Stock Exchange which required dealers to avoid conflicts of interest and limited trading on market information by not making public the size of trades, and by discussing recent scandals that illustrate the costs of trading on market information.The costs and benefits of trading on market information are very difficult to measure because of the absence of benchmark prices against which the prices that are observed in markets can be compared. One proxy for measuring the net costs of such trading is the aggregate cost of financial intermediation: if this falls during a time period when conflicts of interest and opportunities to trade on market information have increased, then one might conclude that the consequences of trading on such information are unlikely to be large. In fact, over the relevant time period there was a dramatic increase in the costs of financial intermediation. While recognizing that the evidence offered here of social cost created by trading on market information is far from conclusive, this paper proposes two policies that could mitigate such costs: a requirement that market makers avoid conflicts of interest, and the non-release of some intraday market data to reduce the market information on which trade can take place.

Download or read book Asymmetric Information Repeated Trade and Asset Prices written by James McLoughlin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial intermediaries play an important role in the pricing of financial assets. For example, intermediaries may act on behalf of consumers in deciding how their wealth is invested, or they may act as providers of liquidity. This dissertation explores several ways in which intermediaries impact price informativeness, the transaction costs investors incur, and investor welfare. In the first chapter, I examine how prices reveal information when intermediaries are informed. Using a model of repeated trade between a long-lived, informed, price-discriminating market maker and risk averse traders with endogenous hedging demands, I first show that traders are weakly better off trading with an informed dealer, as they may learn something about an asset's value in the process of transacting. Second, while long-term incentives can induce an informed market maker to honestly reveal information and increase risk-sharing, they also enable the market maker to hide her information and extract more rents, reducing price informativeness. This less desirable outcome dominates with respect to both the parameter space and a selection criterion. Finally, measures of market quality, such as the transient component of price volatility (illiquidity), may not accurately reflect welfare. The second chapter discusses how relationships affect prices when intermediaries are concerned about adverse selection. When counter-parties trade in OTC markets, such as those for corporate bonds or derivatives, the lack of anonymity implies that future terms of trade can influence prices today. Using a model of repeated trade between an informed trader and uninformed market makers, I show that information asymmetry can affect the markups charged by dealers in two ways. First, for a given market structure (number of market makers), traders with more private information incur lower trading costs because dealers offer better terms to mitigate adverse selection. Second, even when dealers can not compete directly on price quotes, they compete indirectly by improving the informed trader's outside option, though this competition is imperfect. While repeated trade allows two given counter-parties to ameliorate adverse selection, the maximum number of dealers, and hence the total gains achievable, are limited by information frictions. An empirical implication is that the comparative statics of transaction costs only make sense conditional on market structure. The third chapter considers the effect intermediaries have as financial advisors, and whether measures of their performance as mutual fund managers accurately reflect the value they add to an economy. Relative to the existing literature, I look at how the presence of mutual funds affects the price of the underlying asset in an economy. Once this pricing effect is accounted for, I show that standard measures of mutual fund performance may not accurately reflect whether fund management is welfare improving.

Download or read book Empirical Market Microstructure written by Joel Hasbrouck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interactions that occur in securities markets are among the fastest, most information intensive, and most highly strategic of all economic phenomena. This book is about the institutions that have evolved to handle our trading needs, the economic forces that guide our strategies, and statistical methods of using and interpreting the vast amount of information that these markets produce. The book includes numerous exercises.

Download or read book Information Trading and Product Market Interactions written by Heather Elise Tookes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Empirical Investigation of Trading on Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Prior Beliefs written by Paul Brockman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to analyze inter-temporal trading patterns attributable to informed trading, and distinguish between trading due to asymmetric information and trading due to heterogeneous prior beliefs. Although liquidity and asymmetric information motives for trading are well established in the literature, there is much less consensus about the role played by heterogeneous beliefs. If trading on heterogeneous prior beliefs describes actual order flows, then this motive could be a source of considerable trading volume and may be responsible for previously-documented trading patterns. We apply the econometric procedures of Easley, Kiefer, O'Hara, Paperman (1996 Journal of Finance 51, 1405-1436) to the testable hypotheses of Wang's (1998 Journal of Financial Markets 1, 321-352) informed trader model. The empirical findings confirm the existence of trading on heterogeneous prior beliefs and generally support the inter-temporal patterns proposed by Wang (1998).

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance written by Douglas Cumming and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries.

Download or read book Essays on Information and Derivative Markets written by Kevin C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first chapter ("Option Prices and Disclosure: Theory and Measurement"), I develop an option-pricing model that formally incorporates a disclosure event. The model suggests that an understanding of a firm's disclosure policies can aid in efficiently pricing its options. Specifically, I find that 1) more informative disclosures lead to greater volatility in the firm's equity price upon their release, raising pre-disclosure option prices and 2) disclosures that are more informative for good-versus-bad news lead to skewness in the firm's equity price upon their release, adjusting the relative pre-disclosure prices of out-of-the-money and in-the-money options. Using these results, I develop measures of a disclosure's properties based on option prices that may be calculated on an event-specific basis. In the second chapter ("Additional Analyses of Option Prices and Disclosure"), I conduct further studies of the relationship between disclosure and option prices. First, I study the relationship between option prices and disclosure in static and dynamic models of voluntary disclosure. Second, I extend the measures developed in the first chapter to the case in which a firm's fundamentals are asymmetric. Third, I show that option-based measures of volatility and skewness developed in prior literature are not able to function as measures of a disclosure's properties. Finally, I show that the results in the first chapter apply for a multitude of disclosure properties found throughout the literature. In the third chapter ("Financial Markets with Trade on Risk and Return"), I develop a model in which risk-averse investors trade on private information regarding both a stock's expected payoff and risk. These investors may trade in the stock and a derivative whose payoff is a function of the stock's risk. I study the role played by the derivative, finding that it is used to speculate on future risk and to hedge risk uncertainty. Unlike prior rational expectation models with derivatives, its price serves a valuable informational role, communicating investors' risk information. Finally, I find that the equity risk premium is directly tied to the derivative price.

Download or read book Securities Trading Under Asymmetric Information and Trading Constraints written by Kathy Yuan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper develops a non-linear rational expectations equilibrium (REE) solution for a class of economies under both asymmetric information and trading constraints. It then analyzes the properties of this equilibrium in a one-risky-asset economy with borrowing and shortsale constraints. The model suggests that 1) price informativeness varies with the price level; and 2) compared with an economy with borrowing constraints and information asymmetry, the asymmetry in large price movements is more pronounced in the presence of both constraints. A dynamic implication of this result is that crashes (large downward price movements) are formed much faster than bubbles (large upward price movements).