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Opacity in Financial Markets

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  • Yuki Sato

    (University of Lausanne - School of Economics and Business Administration (HEC-Lausanne))

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This paper studies the implications of opacity in fi nancial markets for investor behavior, asset prices, and welfare. Transparent funds (e.g. mutual funds) and opaque funds (e.g. hedge funds) trade transparent assets (e.g. plain-vanilla products) and opaque assets (e.g. structured products). Investors can observe neither opaque funds' portfolios nor opaque assets' payo ffs. Consistent with empirical observations, an "opacity price premium" arises: opaque assets trade at a premium over transparent ones despite identical payoff s. This accompanies endogenous market segmentation: transparent (opaque) funds trade only transparent (opaque) assets. The opacity price premium incentivizes fi nancial engineers to render transparent assets opaque deliberately.

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  • Yuki Sato, 2013. "Opacity in Financial Markets," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 13-63, Swiss Finance Institute, revised Jun 2014.
    • Handle: RePEc:chf:rpseri:rp1363
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