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Competitive Equilibrium with Incomplete Financial Markets

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  • David Cass

    (Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania)

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This is my classic paper, written in early 1984, concerning existence and optimality in general financial equilibrium with incomplete markets for nominal assets, just now being published in a special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Economics.

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  • David Cass, 2006. "Competitive Equilibrium with Incomplete Financial Markets," PIER Working Paper Archive 06-010, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
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    1. Grossman, Sanford J., 1977. "A characterization of the optimality of equilibrium in incomplete markets," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 15(1), pages 1-15, June.
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    Keywords

    financial equilibrium; incomplete markets; Cass trick;
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    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets

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