Speculation and Equilibrium: Information, Risk, and Markets

Abstract

I. Price risk versus quantity risk, 520. — II. Noninformative equilibrium: simple consumptive gamble, 525. — III. Informative equilibrium: prior-trading optimum and compound consumptive gamble, 529. — IV. Conclusion: determinants of speculative-hedging behavior, 538. — V. Limitations and generalizations, 540.