Who Buys and Who Sells Options: The Role of Options in an Economy with Background Risk

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-109

  Franke, Günter ^c   Stapleton, Richard C ^a   Subrahmanyam, Marti G ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0002108312     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jeth.1998.2420     Document Type: Article

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