Multiperiod security markets with differential information. (English) Zbl 0608.90006

Duffie, Darrell; Huang, Chi-fu

J. Math. Econ. 15, 283-303 (1986).

Summary: We model multiperiod securities markets with differential information. A price system that admits no free lunches is related to martingales when agents have rational expectations. We introduce the concept of resolution time, and show that a better informed agent and a less informed agent must agree on the resolution times of commonly marketed events if they have rational expectations and if there are no free lunches. It then follows that if all elementary events are marketed for a less informed agent then any price system that admits no free lunches to a better informed agent must eliminate any private information asymmetry between the two. We provide an example of a dynamically fully revealing price system that is arbitrage free and yields elementarily complete markets.

MSC:

91B24

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets)

Keywords:

informational economics; multiperiod securities markets; differential information; resolution time; dynamically fully revealing price system

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