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Macro Markets
eBook - Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risks, Clarendon Lectures in Economics
ISBN/EAN: 9780191521652
Umbreit-Nr.: 3522955
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 433 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 07.04.1994
Auflage: 1/1994
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Robert Shiller has created a unique and authoritative set of proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks faced by governments. He argues that we have largely the wrong financial markets and that establishing new ones may fundamentally alter and diminish international economic fluctuations and reduce the inequality of incomes. Macro Markets introduces new areas for research and discussion in the field of financial economics, and is part of the distinguished Clarendon Lectures in Economics series.
- Kurztext
- Macro Markets puts forward a unique and authoritative set of detailed proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks facing society. Our existing financial markets are seen as being inadequate in dealing with such risks and Professor Shiller suggests major new markets as solutions to the problem. Shiller argues that although some risks, such as natural disaster or temporary unemployment, are shared by society, most risks are borne by the individual and standards of living determined by luck. He investigates whether a new technology of markets could make risk-sharing possible, and shows how new contracts could be designed to hedge all manner of risks to the individual's living standards. He proposes new international markets for perpetual claims on national incomes, and on componentsand aggregates of national incomes, concluding that these markets may well dwarf our stock markets in their activity and significance. He also argues for new liquid international markets for residential and commercial property. Establishing such unprecedented new markets presents some important technical problems which Shiller attempts to solve with proposals for implementing futures markets on perpetual claims on incomes, and for the construction of index numbers for cash settlement of risk management contracts. These new markets could fundamentally alter and diminish international economic fluctuations, and reduce the inequality of incomes around the world.