In this paper, some decentralized control problems composed of two subsystems are addressed from a special perspective. First, it is pointed out that some subsystems must be unstable to stabilize the overall interconnected system in some special cases. Then, a special kind of decentralized...

This paper derives a no-trade theorem under Knightian uncertainty, which generalizes the theorem of Milgrom and Stokey (1982, Journal of Economic Theory 26, 17) by allowing general preference relations. It is shown that the no-trade theorem holds true as long as agents' preferences are...