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Insider Trading With Different Risk Attitudes

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  • Daher, Wassim
  • Aydilek, Harun
  • Saleeby, Elias G.

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This paper investigates the effect of different risk attitudes on the financial decisions of two insiders trading in the stock market. We consider a static version of the Kyle (1985) model with two insiders. Insider 1 is risk neutral while insider 2 is risk averse with negative exponential utility. First, we prove the existence of a unique linear equilibrium. Second, we obtain somewhat surprising results on how the risk attitudes affect the market liquidity, the price efficiency, when we carry out a comparative static analysis with respect to Tighe (1989) and Holden and Subrahmanyam(1994) models.

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  • Daher, Wassim & Aydilek, Harun & Saleeby, Elias G., 2017. "Insider Trading With Different Risk Attitudes," MPRA Paper 81733, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Insider trading; Risk neutrality; Risk aversion; Exponential Utility; Market structure; Kyle model;
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    JEL classification:

    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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