MIT 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2020 - Lecture 9: Risk-Sharing with Production

MIT 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2020 Instructor: Prof. Robert Townsend View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-04-intermediate-microeconomic-theory-fall-2020/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSTSfCs74bg&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63wnrKge9vllow3Y2OOOKqF In modern economies with financial markets, a good stock is one that hedges aggregate risk, having high return when the rest of the market does poorly, on average. A stock which in contrast co-moves with the market bears a risk premium, to compensate for its failure to hedge market risk. In Thai village economies, no stocks are traded, and yet amazingly, the returns on real capital assets, from running small business and farms, are consistent with the theory. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments.