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Dynamic Aggregation and Computation of Equilibria in Finite-Dimensional Economies with Incomplete Financial Markets

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  • Domenico Cuoco

    (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

  • Hua He

    (Yale School of Management, Yale University)

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This paper constructs a representative agent supporting the equilibrium allocation in ¡°event-tree¡± economies with time-additive preferences and possibly incomplete securities markets. If the equilibrium allocation is Pareto optimal, this construction gives the usual linear welfare function. Otherwise, the representative agent¡¯s utility function is state-dependent, even when individual agents have state-independent utilities and homogeneous beliefs. The existence of a representative agent allows us to provide a characterization of equilibria which does not rely on the derivation of the agents¡¯ intertemporal demand functions for consumption and investment and transforms the dynamic general equilibrium problem into a static one. This characterization is therefore especially well suited for numerical computation of equilibria in economies with incomplete financial markets.

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  • Domenico Cuoco & Hua He, 2001. "Dynamic Aggregation and Computation of Equilibria in Finite-Dimensional Economies with Incomplete Financial Markets," Annals of Economics and Finance, Society for AEF, vol. 2(2), pages 265-296, November.
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    Equilibria; Aggregation; Incomplete markets;
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    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
    • D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)

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