Market Efficient Portfolios in a Systemic Economy

Kerstin Awiszus (), Agostino Capponi () and Stefan Weber ()
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Kerstin Awiszus: Institute of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics & House of Insurance, Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
Agostino Capponi: Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York 10027
Stefan Weber: Institute of Actuarial and Financial Mathematics & House of Insurance, Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

Operations Research, 2022, vol. 70, issue 2, 715-728

Abstract: We study the ex ante minimization of market inefficiency, defined in terms of minimum deviation of market prices from fundamental values, from a centralized planner’s perspective. Prices are pressured from exogenous trading actions of leverage-targeting banks, which rebalance their portfolios in response to asset shocks. We characterize market inefficiency in terms of two key drivers, the banks’ systemic significance and the statistical moments of asset shocks, and develop an explicit expression for the matrix of asset holdings that minimizes such inefficiency. Our analysis shows that to reduce inefficiencies, portfolio holdings should deviate more from a full diversification strategy if there is little heterogeneity in banks’ systemic significance.

Keywords: Financial Engineering; systemic economy; systemic significance; price pressure; leverage targeting; market efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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