Existence of equilibrium in financial markets: Hart's securities exchange model with consumption in the first period

Hart has established necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of equilibrium in an economy consisting of two time periods in which agents trade assets whose returns depend on an uncertain state of nature. Hammond has enounced an equivalent condition from an alternative approach to Hart&...

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Autores:
Bonaldi Varón, Jean Pietro
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2010
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8154
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8154
Palabra clave:
Financial markets
General equilibrium
Securities model
Equilibrio (Economía)
Estancamiento (Economía)
Mercado financiero
D53
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:Hart has established necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of equilibrium in an economy consisting of two time periods in which agents trade assets whose returns depend on an uncertain state of nature. Hammond has enounced an equivalent condition from an alternative approach to Hart's model. In both cases, it is assumed that agents maximize the expected value of their utility in the second period, when the asset returns are paid. In this paper, Hart's model is modified in such a way that agents also value consumption in the first period and the implications of this modification on the conditions proposed by these authors are analyzed.