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Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 89 No. 4 1975

Speculation and Equilibrium: Information, Risk, and Markets

J. Hirshleifer

University of California, Los Angeles

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.

DOI
10.2307/1884690
Volume
89
Issue
4
Pages
519
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