Arbeitspapier

Pareto improving financial innovation in incomplete markets

Financial innovation in an existing asset generically supports a Pareto improvement, targeting the income effect. This result, as several on taxation, owes to one unifying notion: that an intervention generically supports Pareto improvements if the implied price adjustment is sufficiently sensitive to the economy’s risk aversion. Elul (1995) and Cass and Citanna (1998) introduce financial innovation in a new unwanted asset, targeting the substitution effect. Our result requires an initial position of greater asset completeness, but not the addition of a new asset market. The existence argument relies on recent developments in demand theory with incomplete markets.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2006-10

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Finanzinnovation
Unvollkommener Markt
Pareto-Optimum
Wohlfahrtsanalyse
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Turner, Sergio
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Brown University, Department of Economics
(where)
Providence, RI
(when)
2005

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Turner, Sergio
  • Brown University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2005

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