Incomplete markets and derivative assets

Article dans une revue: We analyze derivative asset trading in an economy in which agents face both aggregate and uninsurable idiosyncratic risks. Insurance markets are incomplete for idiosyncratic risk and, possibly, for aggregate risk as well. However, agents can exchange insurance against aggregate risk through derivative assets such as options. We present a tractable framework, which allows us to characterize the extent of risk sharing in this environment. We show that incomplete insurance markets can explain some properties of the volume of traded derivative assets, which are difficult to explain in complete market economies.

Auteur(s)

François Legrand, Xavier Ragot

Revue
  • Economic Theory
Date de publication
  • 2015
Mots-clés JEL
E44 G1 G12
Mots-clés
  • Incomplete markets
  • Heterogeneous agent models
  • Imperfect risk sharing
  • Derivative assets
Référence interne
  • 2441/53r60a8s3kup1vc9l61bg8lh8
Pages
  • 517–545
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 62