Speculation and Risk Sharing with New Financial Assets

I investigate the effect of financial innovation on portfolio risks when traders have belief disagreements. I decompose traders’ average portfolio risks into two components: the uninsurable variance, defined as portfolio risks that would obtain without belief disagreements, and the speculative varia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simsek, Alp
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
Online Access:http://www.nber.org/papers/w17506
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82893
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0840-1848