Risk sharing in a financial market with endogenous option prices
Authored by Jan Wenzelburger
Date Published: 2013-07-01
DOI: 10.1080/1351847x.2011.606989
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Abstract
This article investigates a financial market in which investors may trade in risk-free bonds, stock and put options written on the stock. In each period, stock and option prices are simultaneously determined by market clearing. While the introduction of put options will decrease the systematic risk in the financial market, it will increase the price of risk. Investors with mean-variance preferences will generally hold portfolios containing the primary asset and the put option and may use the option to increase the risk in their wealth position in exchange for higher returns. Aggregate wealth is unaffected by an option market when there are no spillover effects on stock prices, and it is shown that short selling of options will increase the volatility of individual wealth positions. Investors with erroneous beliefs may on average be better off not trading in put options.
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Agent-based models
CAPM
G11
Heterogeneity
O16
derivative markets
efficient portfolios