Insurance with frequent trading

Penalva, José S.

Insurance with frequent trading

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Review of Economic Dynamics 4 (2001), pp. 790-822

Abstract

This paper looks at the dynamic management of risk in an economy with discrete time consumption and endowments and continuous trading. I study how agents in such an economy deal with all the risk in the economy and attain their Pareto optimal allocations by trading in a few natural securities: private insurance contracts and a common set of derivatives on the aggregate endowment. The parsimonious nature of the implied securities needed for Pareto optimality suggests that in such contexts complete markets is a very reasonable assumption.