Universität Wien

390016 SE PhD-VGSF: Capital Market Theory (2017S)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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Details

max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

For administrative questions, please, contact Sigrid Hopf at sigrid.hopf@univie.ac.at or Adrian Baron at adrian.baron@wu.ac.at .

Donnerstag 09.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 16.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 30.03. 08:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 06.04. 08:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 27.04. 08:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 18.05. 08:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 01.06. 08:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 08.06. 08:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Donnerstag 29.06. 08:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Aims of the Course:

The aggregation of dispersed information is the hallmark of decentralized markets. Yet, standard models of asset pricing and general equilibrium maintain that information across investors and economic agents is symmetric. In such situations the properties of decentralized allocations of goods and services can be analyzed and the conditions and limitations for the optimality of market allocations can be derived.

In this course we will ask the question of how decentralized (competitive) markets operate, when information is truly dispersed across agents? How will asymmetric information affect prices, trading volume, market participation (liquidity) and price volatility? How is asymmetric information aggregated in competitive markets and how does price aggregation affect the individual incentives of market participants to collect costly information. What is the relation between allocational and informational efficiency?

We will develop models that generate sun spots, bubbles, and a role for insider trading even in competitive markets with rational market participants.

The course will be followed by a course on market microstructure that concentrates on the role of different trading systems (auctions, networks, search and bilateral trade, hybrid markets, …) in generating prices and trades.

Syllabus

1. Introduction

2. Financial Markets Equilibrium in Complete Markets
2.a. Temporary Equilibrium
2.a.i. existence
2.a.ii. optimality
2.b. Equilibrium of Plans, Prices and Price Expectations
2.b.i. existence
2.b.ii. optimality
2.b.iii. no trade

3. Financial Markets Equilibrium when Markets are Incomplete
3.a. sources of market incompleteness
3.b. partial revelation
3.c. existence
3.d. optimality
3.d.i. informational efficiency
3.d.ii. allocational efficiency
3.e. information acquisition
3.f. sun spots
3.g. bubbles
3.h. herding
3.i. insider trading
3.j. limits to arbitrage

4. Financial Innovation and Security Design

Course outline:
http://finance.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_finanzwirtschaft/Info-Dateien/Kursbeschreibungen_SS17/CMT__0-17_copy.pdf

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Evaluation will be based on worked-out problems distributed and discussed in class.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Grading:
The grading depends primarily on solved problems (80%) distributed during the course and class interaction (20%).

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Suggested Background Literature:

Textbooks:

• Brunnermeier, M. (2001): Information, Bubbles and Market Crashes, Princeton University Press.
• Mas-Collel, A., M. Whinston, J. Green (1995): Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press.
• Vives, X. (2010): Information and Learning in Markets: The Impact of Market Microstructure, Princeton University Press.


Articles (preliminary list):

• Angeletos, G. M., and A. Pavan. (2007): Efficient use of information and social value of information, Econometrica 75, 1103–42.
• Bray, M. (1985): „Rational Expectations, Information and Asset Markets: An Introduction“, Oxford Economic Papers, 37, 1985, 161-195.
• Geanakoplos, J. (2008): Overlapping Generations Model of General Equilibrium, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York).
• Gehrig, T. (1993): „An Information Based Explanation of the Domestic Bias in International Equity Investment“, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1993, 97-109.
• Grandmont, J.M. (1977): Temporary General Equilibrium Theory, Econometrica 45(3), 535-572.
• Grossman S. and J. Stiglitz (1980): „On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets“, American Economic Review 70, 1980, 393-408.
• O. Hart (1975): On the Optimality of Equilibrium when the Market Structure is Incomplete, Journal of Economic Theory 1975, 418--443.
• Hayek, F. (1945): The use of knowledge in society, American Economic Review 35, 519–30.
• Hellwig, M. (1980): On the Aggregation of Information in Competitive Markets, Journal of Economic Theory 22, 477-498.
• Jordan, J. (1982): The generic existence of rational expectations equilibrium in the higher dimensional case, Journal of Economic Theory 26(2), 224-243.
• Milgrom, P. and N. Stokey (1982): Information, Trade and Common Knowledge, Journal of Economic Theory 26(1), 17-27.
• Muth, J. F. (1961): Rational expectations and the theory of price movements, Econometrica 29, 315–35.
• R. Radner (1972): Existence of Equilibrium of Plans, Prices and Price Expectations in a Sequence of Markets, Econometrica 1972, 289--303.
• R. Radner (1979): Rational Expectations Equilibrium: Generic Existence and the Information Revealed by Prices, Econometrica 1979, 655--678.
• Verrecchia, R. (1982): Information Acquisition in a Noisy Rational Expectations Economy, Econometrica 50, 1415-1430.
• Vives, X. (1988): Aggregation of information in large Cournot markets. Econometrica 56, 851– 76.
• Vives, X. (1993): How fast do rational agents learn? Review of Economic Studies 60, 329–47.
• Woodford, M. (1990): Learning to believe in sunspots. Econometrica 58, 277–307.
• Leon Walras (1874): Elements d’Economie Politique Pure, ou Théorie de Richesse Sociale, R. Richon and R. Durand-Ausiaz, Paris.
• Welch, I. (1992): Sequential sales, learning and cascades, Journal of Finance 47, 695-732.

An adapted list to the specific interests of participants will be distributed during the course.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:46