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Strategic trading and welfare in a dynamic market

Vayanos, Dimitri ORCID: 0000-0002-0944-4914 (1999) Strategic trading and welfare in a dynamic market. Review of Economic Studies, 66 (2). pp. 219-254. ISSN 0034-6527

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Identification Number: 10.1111/1467-937X.00086

Abstract

This paper studies a dynamic model of a financial market with N strategic agents. Agents receive random stock endowments at each period and trade to share dividend risk. Endowments are the only private information in the model. We find that agents trade slowly even when the time between trades goes to 0. In fact, welfare loss due to strategic behavior increases as the time between trades decreases. In the limit when the time between trades goes to 0, welfare loss is of order 1/N, and not 1/N² as in the static models of the double auctions literature. The model is very tractable and closed-form solutions are obtained in a special case.

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Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2005
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2024 22:11
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/449

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