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The Liquidity Service of Benchmark Securities⁄yKathy YuanRoss School of Business,University of MichiganFebruary 2005AbstractWe demonstrate that benchmark securities allow heterogeneouslyinformedinvestorstocreatetradingstrategiesthatareperfectlyalignedwith their signals. Investors who are informed about security-speciflcrisks but uninformed about systematic risks can take an ofisettingposition in benchmark securities to eliminate exposure to adverse se-lection in systematic risks, while investors who are informed aboutsystematicrisksbutuninformedaboutsecurity-speciflcriskscantrade risks exclusively using benchmark securities. We furthershow that introduction of benchmark securities encourages more in-vestors to acquire both security-speciflc and systematic-factor infor-mation, which leads to increased liquidity and price informativenessfor all individual securities. (JEL: G10, G12, G14)⁄Acknowledgements: This paper is based on a chapter in my dissertation at the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology. I thank my advisors Paul Krugman, Jeremy Stein,and Jiang Wang, as well as Dimitri Vayanos, Andrea Eisenfeld, Emre Ozdenoren, PaoloPasquariello, Matthew Spiegel, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, and the seminar participantsat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the NBER 2001Summer Institute, the 2002 American Finance Association Meetings, and the 2002 UtahWinter Finance Conference for helpful comments. I also thank Franklin Allen, ...

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The Liquidity Service of Benchmark Securities Kathy Yuan †∗ Ross School of Business, University of Michigan February 2005

Abstract We demonstrate that benchmark securities allow heterogeneously informed investors to create trading strategies that are perfectly aligned with their signals. Investors who are informed about security-specific risks but uninformed about systematic risks can take an offsetting position in benchmark securities to eliminate exposure to adverse se- lection in systematic risks, while investors who are informed about systematic risks but uninformed about security-specific risks can trade systematic risks exclusively using benchmark securities. We further show that introduction of benchmark securities encourages more in- vestors to acquire both security-specific and systematic-factor infor- mation, which leads to increased liquidity and price informativeness for all individual securities. (JEL: G10, G12, G14)

∗  paper is based on a chapter in my dissertation at the Mas-Acknowledgements: This sachusetts Institute of Technology. I thank my advisors Paul Krugman, Jeremy Stein, and Jiang Wang, as well as Dimitri Vayanos, Andrea Eisenfeld, Emre Ozdenoren, Paolo Pasquariello, Matthew Spiegel, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, and the seminar participants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the NBER 2001 Summer Institute, the 2002 American Finance Association Meetings, and the 2002 Utah Winter Finance Conference for helpful comments. I also thank Franklin Allen, the guest editor, Patrick Bolton, the editor, and an anonymous referee for comments that improved the original paper. Any errors are mine. † Email address:<[e-mail]>.