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Options can induce risk taking for arbitrary preferences
Authors:Luis H B Braido  Daniel Ferreira
Institution:(1) Graduate School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Praia de Botafogo 190, s.1100, RJ 22253-900 Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL;(2) SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, Box 6501, SE 113 83 Stockholm, SWEDEN
Abstract:Summary. It is widely believed that call options induce risk-taking behavior. However, Ross (2004) challenges this intuition by demonstrating the impossibility of inducing managers with arbitrary preferences to always act as if they were less risk averse. If preferences and price distributions are unknown, risk-taking behavior cannot be always induced by an option contract. Here, we prove a new result showing that, with no information about preferences and some knowledge about prices, one can write a call option that makes all managers prefer riskier projects to safer ones. This points out that in order to design options that induce risk taking it is sufficient to have information about price distributions.Received: 5 November 2003, Revised: 1 November 2004, JEL Classification Numbers: D81, G00, J33, M21. Correspondence to: Luis H.B. BraidoWe thank Renée Adams, Heitor Almeida, Carlos E. da Costa, Andrew Horowitz, Paulo K. Monteiro, Walter Novaes, Sergio O. Parreiras, Rodrigo R. Soares, and especially Marcos Tsuchida for many helpful comments.
Keywords:Stochastic dominance  Stock options  Risk taking  
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