Impediments to Financial Trade: Theory and Applications
We propose a tractable model of an informationally inefficient market featuring non-revealing prices, no noise traders, and general assumptions on preferences and payoff distributions. We show the equivalence between our model and a substantially simpler model whereby investors face distortionary investment taxes depending both on their identity and the asset class. This equivalence allows us to account for such phenomena as under-diversification. We further employ the model to assess approaches to performance evaluation, and find that it provides a theoretical basis for some intuitive practices adopted by finance professionals, such as style analysis.
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Copy CitationNicolae Gârleanu, Stavros Panageas, and Jianfeng Yu, "Impediments to Financial Trade: Theory and Applications," NBER Working Paper 22697 (2016), https://doi.org/10.3386/w22697.Download Citation
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Nicolae Gârleanu & Stavros Panageas & Jianfeng Yu & Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 2020. "Impediments to Financial Trade: Theory and Applications," The Review of Financial Studies, vol 33(6), pages 2697-2727. citation courtesy of 
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