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General equilibrium with endogenous uncertainty and default

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Graciela Chichilnisky () (Columbia University - Program on Information and Resources)
Ho-Mou Wu () (National Taiwan University - College of Management)

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In this paper we study the introduction of new assets which are oftenly observed to be defined in expected values rather than state by state, called the Arrow-Lind-Malinvaud (ALM) assets. We demonstrate that individual default emerges naturally in an economy where such ALM assets are introduced without completing all contingency markets. We further provide conditions under which individual default is propagated endogenously into a collective risk of widespread default in general equilibrium.

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Paper provided by Columbia University, Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 0506-29.

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Date of creation: 2006
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