Arbitrage, Hedging, and Financial Innovation
在一个标准框架下分析引入新证券的成本与收益,发现即使新证券在均衡中被交易,也可能使所有人状况变差,并强调跨市场对冲与投机需求之间的联系。
I consider the costs and benefits of introducing a new security in a standard framework where uninformed traders with hedging needs interact with risk-averse informed traders, Opening a new market may make everyboby worse off, even when the new security is traded in equilibrium, This article emphasizes cross-market links between hedging and speculative demands: risk-averse arbitrageurs can use the new market to hedge their positions in the preexisting security, which cart affect liquidity in the old market. More generally, the availability of such hedging opportunities will influence the strategies to which traders will direct resources.