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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Existence of Sunspot Equilibria and Uniqueness of Spot Market Equilibria: The Case of Intrinsically Complete Markets
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Thorsten Hens
  • János Mayer
  • Beate Pilgrim
Editors
  • Alessandro Citanna
  • John Donaldson
  • Herakles Polemarchakis
  • Paolo Siconolfi
  • Stephen Spear
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Essays in Dynamic General Equilibrium Theory : Festschrift for David Cass
Series Name Studies in Economic Theory
ISBN 978-3-540-22267-5
ISSN 1431-8849
Number 20
Place of Publication Berlin
Publisher Springer (Bücher)
Page Range 75 - 106
Date 2005
Abstract Text We consider economies with additively separable utility functions and give conditions for the two-agents case under which the existence of sunspot equilibria is equivalent to the occurrence of the transfer paradox. This equivalence enables us to show that sunspots cannot matter if the initial economy has a unique spot market equilibrium and there are only two commodities or if the economy has a unique equilibrium for all distributions of endowments induced by asset trade. For more than two agents the equivalence breaks and we give an example for sunspot equilibria even though the economy has a unique equilibrium for all distributions of endowments induced by asset trade.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/3-540-27192-9_4
Other Identification Number merlin-id:19975
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