Abstract
For incomplete financial markets, jumps in both prices and consumption can be unavoidable. We consider pure-exchange economies with infinite horizon, discrete time, uncertainty with a continuum of possible shocks at every date. The evolution of shocks follows a Markov process, and fundamentals depend continuously on shocks. It is shown that: (1) equilibria exist; (2) for effectively complete financial markets, asset prices depend continuously on shocks; and (3) for incomplete financial markets, there is an open set of economies U such that for every equilibrium of every economy in U, asset prices at every date depend discontinuously on the shock at that date.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 201-219 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Economic Theory |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 20 May 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2016 |
Keywords
- Financial markets
- General equilibrium
- Jumps in asset prices
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