Economics of Financial Markets

Organized by Pradeep Dubey and William Zame

July 11 to July 16, 1995

Stony Brook, New York

PROGRAM



Intensive Course: Economics of Financial Markets

  TUESDAY, JULY 11

10:00-12:15 J. Geanakoplos: The Basic Two-Period GEI Model + Capital Asset Pricing Model + Arbitrage Pricing Model

2:15-4:30 W. Zame: Derivatives, the Multiperiod Model, Black-Scholes Theory, Modigliani-Miller Principle


  WEDNESDAY, JULY 12

10:00-12:15 R. Elul: Efficiency and Constrained Efficiency

2:15-4:30 P. Dubey: Monetary Equilibrium with Missing Markets


Course and Workshop on Financial Innovation

  THURSDAY, JULY 13

10:00-12:00 R. Rahi: Overview

Invited and Submitted Papers
2:15-2:45 R. Shiller (joint with S. Athanasoulis): World Income Components: Measuring and Exploiting Risk-Sharing
2:15-2:45 P. DeMarzo (joint with D. Duffie): A Liquidity-Based Model of Security Design


Practitioners in Finance

  FRIDAY, JULY 14

10:00-11:00 A. Kalai (Tel Aviv University Business School, consultant to several Israeli mutual funds): Unavoidable Profit Opportunities
11:15-12:00 G. Huberman (Columbia University and J.P. Morgan): Unavoidable Profit Opportunities
2:15-3:15 J.H. Simon (Renaissance Technologies Corp.): Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck
3:30-4:30 N. Vaghul (Chairman, Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India): The Changing Scenario of the Indian Capital Markets


General Conference

  SATURDAY, JULY 15

9:30-10:15 S. Bose: Use and Regulation of Information in an Incomplete Markets Model with Default and Restricted Participation
10:30-11:15 M. Krishnan (joint with U. Bhattacharya): To Believe or Not to Believe
11:30-12:15 G.Y. Luo: Futures Market and Irrational Noise Traders: Economic Natural Selection
2:15-3:00 J. Berk: Does Size Really Matter?
3:15-4:00 S.F. LeRoy (joint with D.G. Steigerwald): Volatility
4:15-5:00 J. Ostroy (joint with S. Potter): Firm Valuations in a Real Business Cycle Model


  SUNDAY, JULY 16

9:30-10:15 Z. Wiener (joint with Y. Bergman and B. Grundy): Theory of Rational Option Pricing II
10:30-11:15 J. Paul: Information Aggregation Without Exogenous "Liquidity" Trading
11:30-12:15 W. Zame: Default, Collateral and Derivatives
2:15-3:00 J.-M. Bottazzi (joint with T. Hens): On Excess Demand Functions with Incomplete Markets
3:15-4:00 C. Skiadas (joint with P. DeMarzo): On the Uniqueness of Fully Revealing Equilibria and the Existence of Non-Fully Revealing Equilibria