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Construction of a state space for interrelated securities with an application to temporary equilibrium theory

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We construct an endogenous state space in an exchange economy with possibly infinite horizon. Every period agents trade securities whose payoffs depend on future dividends and asset prices. We reject the perfect foresight assumption on the ground that agents have not only limited knowledge of other individuals' endowments and preferences, but also limited capacity to compute equilibria. We choose instead absence of arbitrage as the principle which allows agents to determine if a system of future prices is possible. We give an alogrithm to compute the set of nonarbitrage prices every period, with both finite and infinite horizon. We then apply this endogenous structure of uncertainty to an infinite horizon temporary equilibrium model.

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  1. Departement Finance et Economic, Groupe HEC, F-78351, Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, France

    Philippe Henrotte

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I would like to thank Professor Donald Brown for his constant help and guidance. I have also greatly benefited from helpful discussions with Professors Jacques Drèze, Bernard Dumas, Mordecai Kurz, Carsten Nielsen, Jan Werner, and Ho-Mou Wu.

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Henrotte, P. Construction of a state space for interrelated securities with an application to temporary equilibrium theory. Econ Theory 8, 423–459 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213504

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