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Spring 2007 Seminar Series
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER
SPRING 2007 SEMINAR SERIES
DATE: Thursday, February 15, 2007
LOCATION: E40-298
TIME: 4:15pm
Reception immediately following in the Philip M. Morse Reading Room, E40-106
TITLE
Insider Trading with Stochastic Valuation
ABSTRACT
This paper studies a model of strategic trading with asymmetric
information of an asset whose value follows a Brownian motion.
An insider continuously observes a signal that tracks the evolution
of the asset fundamental value. At a random time a public announcement
reveals the current value of the asset to all the traders. The
equilibrium has two regimes separated by an endogenously determined
time T. In [0,T) , the insider gradually transfers her information
to the market and the market's uncertainty about the value of
the asset decreases monotonically. By time T all her information
is transferred to the market and the price agrees with the market
value of the asset. In the interval [T, infinity), the insider
trades large volumes and reveals her information immediately,
so market prices track the market value perfectly. Despite this
market efficiency, we show that the insider is still able to
collect strictly positive rents after T.
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