Large economies with differential information but without free disposal


Autoria(s): Martins-da-Rocha, Victor Filipe; Angeloni, Laura
Data(s)

13/05/2008

13/05/2008

28/02/2008

Resumo

We consider exchange economies with a continuum of agents and differential information about finitely many states of nature. It was proved in Einy, Moreno and Shitovitz (2001) that if we allow for free disposal in the market clearing (feasibility) constraints then an irreducible economy has a competitive (or Walrasian expectations) equilibrium, and moreover, the set of competitive equilibrium allocations coincides with the private core. However when feasibility is defined with free disposal, competitive equilibrium allocations may not be incentive compatible and contracts may not be enforceable (see e.g. Glycopantis, Muir and Yannelis (2002)). This is the main motivation for considering equilibrium solutions with exact feasibility. We first prove that the results in Einy et al. (2001) are still valid without freedisposal. Then we define an incentive compatibility property motivated by the issue of contracts’ execution and we prove that every Pareto optimal exact feasible allocation is incentive compatible, implying that contracts of competitive or core allocations are enforceable.

Identificador

0104-8910

http://hdl.handle.net/10438/359

Idioma(s)

en_US

Publicador

Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia

Relação

Ensaios Econômicos;671

Palavras-Chave #Large exchange economies #Differential information #Competitive and Core allocations #Incentive compatibility #Economia #Relações de troca (Economia) #Concorrência
Tipo

Working Paper