Abstract
For incomplete financial markets, jumps in both prices and consumption can be unavoidable. We consider pure-exchange economies with infinite horizon, discrete time, uncertainty with a continuum of possible shocks at every date. The evolution of shocks follows a Markov process, and fundamentals depend continuously on shocks. It is shown that: (1) equilibria exist; (2) for effectively complete financial markets, asset prices depend continuously on shocks; and (3) for incomplete financial markets, there is an open set of economies U such that for every equilibrium of every economy in U, asset prices at every date depend discontinuously on the shock at that date.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 201-219 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Economic Theory |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1 2016 |
Keywords
- Financial markets
- General equilibrium
- Jumps in asset prices
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics