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Investment decisions and normalization with incomplete markets: a remark

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  • VENTURA, Luigi

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Universit`a “La Sapienza”)

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Profit maximization is not a well defined objective when markets are incomplete. Several criteria of investment choice have therefore been put forward in the literature, some of which crucially hinge upon aggregation of shareholders' preferences, as is the case with the criteria proposed by Dreze (1974) and Grossman and Hart (1979). This note shows that these e criteria are normalization dependent, i.e. their outcome depends on the good chosen to express individuals' marginal rates of substitution.

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  • VENTURA, Luigi, 1998. "Investment decisions and normalization with incomplete markets: a remark," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 1998028, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
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    Keywords

    investment decisions; normalization; incomplete markets;
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    JEL classification:

    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
    • D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General

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