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It is shown in this note that in an incomplete markets economy with uncountably many states of the world there may be uncountably many isolated equilibria as well as uncountably many non-isolated equilibria. Moreover, both subsets can be simultaneously of second category. Therefore, none of the subsets can be considered negligible with respect to the other, neither from a cardinality point of view nor from a topological one. Unfortunately, this fact prevents from claiming that these economies may have “typically” determinate equilibria – even though uncountably many of them – as would have been desirable for comparative statics exercises.
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Received: May 19, 1995; revised version: March 24, 1997
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Dávila, J. A note on the “size” of determinacy and indeterminacy. Economic Theory 12, 213–223 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990050219
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