Pooling and Tranching under Belief Disagreement
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Pooling and Tranching under Belief Disagreement
Disagreement and Optimal Security Design
Date Written: July 8, 2019
Abstract
We study optimal security design when issuer and market participants disagree about the characteristics of the underlying asset. We show that pooling and tranching assets can be preferable to selling optimal securities backed by individual assets: pooling can be a response to belief disagreement between issuer and investors; tranching allows the issuer to exploit belief disagreement among investors. Moreover, differences in beliefs can make pooling and tranching complements; asymmetric information alone cannot.
Keywords: Disagreement, Security Design, Optimism, Overconfidence, Pooling, Tranching, Behavioral Finance
JEL Classification: G30, G32, D84, D86
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