Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18933 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1295
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
A rational-expectations equilibrium with positive demand for financial information does exist under fully revealing asset price - contrary to a wide-held conjecture. Generalizing the common additive signal-return model with CARA utility to the family of distributions with moment generating functions, this paper shows that individual investors endowed with an average portfolio demand information in equilibrium if they can adjust portfolio size. More information diminishes the expected excess return of a risky asset so that investors who only have a choice of portfolio composition or whose asset endowments strongly differ from the average portfolio are worse off. Under fully revealing price, information market equilibria both with and without information acquisition are Pareto efficient.
Subjects: 
information
efficiency
financial markets
portfolio theory
JEL: 
D82
G14
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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