The Stock Market and the Theory of the Firm Under Price Uncertainty
- Creators
- Forsythe, Robert
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to reexamine the criterion of value maximization when price uncertainty is present. Whereas we wish to work within a perfectly competitive framework, we will make one alteration to the usual set of competitive assumptions. Since we wish to focus on behavior in an economy where risks may only be shared incompletely, we will restrict certain forms of entry into the capital market. Indeed, if we would allow unrestricted entry, we would expect to find that the market would soon possess the equivalent of a complete set of contingent claim markets. Individuals could easily accomplish this by trading in the separate contingent claim components of any existing stream of returns. To prevent this unpackaging, we will allow only a specific type of entry. Namely, we will allow entering firms to offer return functions from a predetermined set of functions. This set will include only those return functions which are initially present in the economy. This assumption precludes purely financial entry, but makes all existing technologies for the production of returns freely accessible.
Additional Information
I wish to express my thanks to David Cass, Walter Dolde, and Milton Harris who served as my thesis committee. Any remaining errors are my responsibility.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20171020-170506344
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2017-10-24Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2019-10-03Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Social Science Working Papers
- Series Name
- Social Science Working Paper
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 201