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Macro Markets puts forward a unique and authoritative set of detailed proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks facing society. Our existing financial markets are seen as being inadequate in dealing with such risks and Professor Shiller suggests major new markets as solutions to the problem.
Shiller argues that although some risks, such as natural disaster or temporary unemployment, are shared by society, most risks are borne by the individual and standards of living determined by luck. He investigates whether a new technology of markets could make risk-sharing possible, and shows how new contracts could be designed to hedge all manner of risks to the individual's living standards. He proposes new international markets for perpetual claims on national incomes, and on components and aggregates of national incomes, concluding that these markets may well dwarf our stock markets in their activity and significance. He also argues for new liquid international markets for residential and commercial property.
Establishing such unprecedented new markets presents some important technical problems which Shiller attempts to solve with proposals for implementing futures markets on perpetual claims on incomes, and for the construction of index numbers for cash settlement of risk management contracts. These new markets could fundamentally alter and diminish international economic fluctuations, and reduce the inequality of incomes around the world.
Table des matières
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Psychological Barriers
- 3: Mechanisms for Hedging Long Streams of Income
- 4: National Income and Labour Income Markets
- 5: Real Estate and Other Markets
- 6: The Construction of Index Numbers for Contract Settlement
- 7: Index Numbers: Issues and Alternatives
- 8: The Problem of Index Revisions
- 9: Making It Happen
- Notes
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Résumé
Robert Shiller has created a proposals for establishing new markets for the management of the biggest economic risks faced by governments. He argues that we have largely the wrong financial markets and that establishing new ones may fundamentally alter and diminish international economic fluctuations and reduce the inequality of incomes.
Préface
Robert J. Shiller was the recipient (with Eugene F. Fama and Lars Peter Hansen) of the 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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[This] book, unique in its approach...offers an unusual combination of passionate advocacy with precise theoretical reasoning...this book will focus the attention of economists on the idea of constructing risk markets and probably recruit not a few to Schiller's active programme of market creation.
