Competition in Financial Innovation
Competition in Financial Innovation
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DOI:
10.3982/ecta9837
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发表时间:
2012-09
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影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
A. Carvajal;M. Rostek;Marek Weretka
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作者:
A. Carvajal;M. Rostek;Marek Weretka
This paper examines the incentives to innovate securities provided by frictionless competitive markets (with short sales) to entrepreneurs. In economies with symmetric investor utilities, we provide the conditions under which a …rm’s market value is maximized by a complete …nancial structure –that is, when the mechanism that gives rise to market incompleteness is the one illustrated in the classical example of Allen and Gale (1991). The foundation for incompleteness in that case is derived from innovation costs and free riding among entrepreneurs. For the class of preferences where an incomplete …nancial structure maximizes the …rms’market values, markets are incomplete with a probability of one, even when innovation is cost free. In this sense, we provide an alternative to Allen and Gale’s foundation for market incompleteness.