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Michael C. Tseng

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Arrow-Debreu Meets Kyle: Price Discovery Across Derivatives

We study price discovery in a model where an informed agent has arbitrary private information about state probabilities and trades state-contingent claims. The model unifies the key elements of Arrow-Debreu (1954) and Kyle (1985). When the claims are options, the informed agent has arbitrary information about the underlying asset's payoff distribution and trades option portfolios. Our setting provides the first equilibrium framework that encompasses longs-tanding option-market practices and regularities, including common trading strategies and the volatility smile across strikes.

econ.GN

An Infinite-Dimensional Insider Trading Game

We generalize the seminal framework of Kyle (1985) to a many-asset setting, bridging the gap between informed-trading theory and modern trading practices. Specifically, we formulate an infinite-dimensional Bayesian trading game in which the informed trader's private information may concern arbitrary aspects of the cross-sectional payoff structure across a continuum of traded assets. In this general setting, we obtain a parsimonious equilibrium characterized by a single scalar fixed point, which yields closed-form characterizations of equilibrium trading strategy, price impact within and across markets, and the information efficiency of equilibrium prices.

q-fin.MF