Download or read book Volume and Price Formation in an Asset Trading Model with Asymmetric Information written by Antonio Eugenio Bernardo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 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 Asymmetric Information and the Formation of Asset written by Michael R. Baye and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Model of Intertemporal Asset Prices Under Asymmetric Information written by Jiang Wang and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Model of Intertemporal Asset Prices Under Asymmetric Information Classic Reprint written by Jiang Wang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Model of Intertemporal Asset Prices Under Asymmetric Information We explore the implications of our model for the behavior of stock prices, risk premia, price volatility, autocorrelation in stock returns and investors' trading strategies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Investor Heterogeneity Trading Volume and Asset Pricing written by Takeshi Yamada and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Market Microstructure in Emerging and Developed Markets written by H. Kent Baker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the dynamic area of finance known as market microstructure Interest in market microstructure has grown dramatically in recent years due largely in part to the rapid transformation of the financial market environment by technology, regulation, and globalization. Looking at market transactions at the most granular level—and taking into account market structure, price discovery, information flows, transaction costs, and the trading process—market microstructure also forms the basis of high-frequency trading strategies that can help professional investors generate profits and/or execute optimal transactions. Part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance, Market Microstructure skillfully puts this discipline in perspective and examines how the working processes of markets impact transaction costs, prices, quotes, volume, and trading behavior. Along the way, it offers valuable insights on how specific features of the trading process like the existence of intermediaries or the environment in which trading takes place affect the price formation process. Explore issues including market structure and design, transaction costs, information flows, and disclosure Addresses market microstructure in emerging markets Covers the legal and regulatory issues impacting this area of finance Contains contributions from both experienced financial professionals and respected academics in this field If you're looking to gain a firm understanding of market microstructure, this book is the best place to start.
Download or read book Asset Pricing and Trading Volume with Asymmetric Information written by Jiang Li and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Empirical Asset Pricing written by Wayne Ferson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the theory and methods of empirical asset pricing, integrating classical foundations with recent developments. This book offers a comprehensive advanced introduction to asset pricing, the study of models for the prices and returns of various securities. The focus is empirical, emphasizing how the models relate to the data. The book offers a uniquely integrated treatment, combining classical foundations with more recent developments in the literature and relating some of the material to applications in investment management. It covers the theory of empirical asset pricing, the main empirical methods, and a range of applied topics. The book introduces the theory of empirical asset pricing through three main paradigms: mean variance analysis, stochastic discount factors, and beta pricing models. It describes empirical methods, beginning with the generalized method of moments (GMM) and viewing other methods as special cases of GMM; offers a comprehensive review of fund performance evaluation; and presents selected applied topics, including a substantial chapter on predictability in asset markets that covers predicting the level of returns, volatility and higher moments, and predicting cross-sectional differences in returns. Other chapters cover production-based asset pricing, long-run risk models, the Campbell-Shiller approximation, the debate on covariance versus characteristics, and the relation of volatility to the cross-section of stock returns. An extensive reference section captures the current state of the field. The book is intended for use by graduate students in finance and economics; it can also serve as a reference for professionals.
Download or read book Essays on Asymmetric Information in Asset Trading Models written by Ian Lindsay Gale and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Market Liquidity written by Thierry Foucault and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The process by which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook. This book offers a more accurate and authoritative take on this process. The book starts from the assumption that not everyone is present at all times simultaneously on the market, and that participants have quite diverse information about the security's fundamentals. As a result, the order flow is a complex mix of information and noise, and a consensus price only emerges gradually over time as the trading process evolves and the participants interpret the actions of other traders. Thus, a security's actual transaction price may deviate from its fundamental value, as it would be assessed by a fully informed set of investors. The book takes these deviations seriously, and explains why and how they emerge in the trading process and are eventually eliminated. The authors draw on a vast body of theoretical insights and empirical findings on security price formation that have come to form a well-defined field within financial economics known as "market microstructure." Focusing on liquidity and price discovery, the book analyzes the tension between the two, pointing out that when price-relevant information reaches the market through trading pressure rather than through a public announcement, liquidity may suffer. It also confronts many striking phenomena in securities markets and uses the analytical tools and empirical methods of market microstructure to understand them. These include issues such as why liquidity changes over time and differs across securities, why large trades move prices up or down, and why these price changes are subsequently reversed, and why we observe temporary deviations from asset fair values"--
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).
Download or read book Issues in Pricing Liquidity Information Efficiency Asymmetric Information and Trading Sysyems written by Evaiigelos Thomas Giouvris and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market microstructure is a relatively new area in finance which emerged as a result of inconsistency between actual and expected prices due to a variety of frictions (mainly trading frictions and asymmetric information) and the realisation that the trading process through which investors' demand is ultimately translated into orders and volumes is of greater importance in price formation than it was originally thought. Despite increased research in the area of liquidity, asset pricing, asymmetric information and trading systems, all subfields in the area of market microstructure, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered such as the effect of different trading systems on systematic liquidity, informational efficiency or components of the spread. This thesis aims at shedding light on those questions by providing a detailed empirical investigation of the effect of trading systems on systematic liquidity, pricing, informational efficiency, volatility and bid-ask spread decomposition mainly with respect to the UK market (FTSEIOO and FTSE250) and to a less extent with respect to the Greek market. Those two markets are at different levels of development/sophistication and are negatively correlated. The aims of this thesis are outlined in chapter one with chapter two providing a detailed review of the theoretical literature relevant to this study. Chapter three is the first empirical chapter and tests for the presence of a common underlying liquidity factor (systematic liquidity) and its effect on pricing for FTSE100 and FTSE250 stocks under different trading regimes. Results show the presence of commonality for FTSE100 and FTSE250 stocks although commonality is weaker for FTSE250 stocks and its role on pricing is reduced. Chapter four investigates the same issues with respect to the Greek market and we find that commonality appears to be stronger in some periods while it is reduced to zero for other periods. Chapter five focuses on the effect that changes in the trading systems can have on informational efficiency and volatility primarily with respect to FTSE100 and FTSE250. Different methodologies and data are employed for this purpose and produce similar results. We find that order driven markets are more responsive to incoming information when compared to quote driven markets. Volatility has a greater impact on the spread when the market is quote driven. We also examined if automated trading increased informational efficiency with respect to the Greek market. The results obtained indicated that the effect of automation was positive. Finally the last chapter focused on the effect of different trading systems on the components of the spread and their determinants. Our main finding is that the asymmetric component of the spread is higher under a quote driven market. Also stock volatility appears to affect the asymmetric component to a greater extent when the market is quote driven. We believe that the main justification for those findings is affirmative quotation.
Download or read book Asymmetric Information and the Distribution of Trading Volume written by Matthijs Lof and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We propose the Volume Coefficient of Variation (VCV), the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean of trading volume, as a new and easily computable measure of information asymmetry in security markets. We use a simple microstructure model to demonstrate that VCV is strictly increasing in the proportion of informed trade. Empirically, we find that firm-year observations of VCV, computed from daily trading volumes, are correlated with extant firm-level measures of asymmetric information in the cross-section of US stocks. Moreover, VCV increases following exogenous reductions in analyst coverage induced by brokerage closures, and steeply decreases around earnings announcements.
