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On the Allocative Efficiency of Competitive Prices in Economies with Incomplete Markets

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  • Tarun Sabarwal

    (University of Texas at Austin)

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A new measure of constrained efficiency for application in economies with incomplete markets is presented. This measure --- termed Allais- Malinvaud efficiency --- can be viewed as adjusting for market incompleteness not fully captured in previous work. It is shown that equilibrium allocations in Radner-GEI economies are always Allais- Malinvaud efficient. In particular, a re-distribution of assets in equilibrium cannot induce a relative price change that leads to an Allais-Malinvaud improvement. Moreover, this result extends to Radner- GEI economies in which consumer liability is limited by bankruptcy.

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  • Tarun Sabarwal, 2004. "On the Allocative Efficiency of Competitive Prices in Economies with Incomplete Markets," GE, Growth, Math methods 0410006, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Duffie, Darrell & Shafer, Wayne, 1986. "Equilibrium in incomplete markets: II : Generic existence in stochastic economies," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(3), pages 199-216, June.
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    2. Tarun Sabarwal, 2004. "A Consistent Firm Objective When Markets are Incomplete: Profit Maximization," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 141, Econometric Society.

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    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis

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