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Arbitrage and Existence of Equilibrium in Infinite Asset Markets

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Brown, Donald J
Werner, Jan

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This paper develops a framework for a general equilibrium analysis of asset markets when the number of assets is infinite. The authors show that an equilibrium exists if there is a price system under which no investor has an arbitrage opportunity. For the case of infinite asset markets, they introduce a concept of sequential arbitrage opportunity that is a sequence of portfolios which increases an investor's utility indefinitely and has zero price in the limit. The authors show that a sequential arbitrage opportunity and an arbitrage portfolio are equivalent concepts in finite markets but not in their infinite counterpart. Copyright 1995 by The Review of Economic Studies Limited.

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Volume (Year): 62 (1995)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 101-14
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  1. Cuong Le Van & Frank H. Page, Jr. & Myrna Wooders, 2005. "Risky Arbitage, Asset Prices, and Externalities," Working Papers 0524, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Nizar Allouch, 2000. "Edgeworth and Walras Equilibria of an Arbitrage-Free Exchange Economy," Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers 1901, Econometric Society. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Wassin Daher & V. Filipe Martins-da-Rocha & Yiannis Vailakis, 2005. "Asset market equilibrium with short-selling and differential information," Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques b05098, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1). [Downloadable!]
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