Opacity in financial markets

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Title
Opacity in financial markets
Journal
Review of Financial Studies
Author(s)
Sato  Y.
ISSN
0893-9454
Publication state
Published
Issued date
12/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
27
Number
12
Pages
3502-3546
Language
english
Abstract
This paper studies the implications of opacity in financial markets for investor behavior, asset prices, and welfare. Transparent funds (e.g., mutual funds) and opaque funds (e.g., hedge funds) trade transparent assets (e.g., plain-vanilla products) and opaque assets (e.g., structured products). Investors observe neither opaque funds' portfolios nor opaque assets' payoffs. Consistent with empirical observations, an "opacity price premium" arises: opaque assets trade at a premium over transparent ones despite identical payoffs. This accompanies endogenous market segmentation: transparent (opaque) funds trade only transparent (opaque) assets. The opacity price premium incentivizes financial engineers to render transparent assets opaque deliberately.
Keywords
Management industry, career concerns, fund industry, performance, information, model, size
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