Finance Seminar - Martin Schmalz (Imperial College)

Abstract: We propose a notion of stock market equilibrium that allows for strategically acting firms. We apply the abstract model to a setting in which heterogeneous investors choose between bonds, individual stocks, and a diversified index fund, and derive implications for asset prices. A reduction in the cost of indexing can increase asset prices and have welfare effects with opposite signs on different subsets of the investor distribution.

Note: Both the seminar and meetings will be in hybrid format.
Zoom Meeting ID: 736 487 3755
Passcode: CFF
Link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/7364873755?pwd=QzNUeUpnNit2U2JMZnpZbmZwV2pZdz09

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