Existence results for equilibria in economies under increasing returns to scale, fixed costs, or showing more general types of non convexity in the production sector, strongly rest on a crucial condition, known as the survival assumption. This assumption is unsatisfactory in the sense that it...

In this paper, we introduce input-specific externalities in a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and a finance constraint (Woodford (1986)). In contrast to existing papers, average labor and capital have not a positive impact on the total productivity of factors, but...

This paper proves the existence of competitive equilibrium in a single sector dynamic economy with elastic labor supply. The method of proof relies on some recent results (see Le Van and Saglam [2004]) concerning the existence of Lagrange multipliers in infinite dimensional spaces and their...

We consider an extension of a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets that considers cash-in-advance constraints. The total amount of money is supplied by an authority, which produces at no cost and lends money to agents at short term nominal rates of interest, meeting the demand....

We consider a class of pure exchange economies with externalities. The consumption set and the preferences of each household depend on his initial endowment and on the actions of the other households. We give a definition of competitive equilibrium with externalities which includes as particular...

In this paper, we first give an elementary proof of existence of equilibrium with dividends in an economy with possibly satiated consumers. We then introduce a non-arbitrage condition and show that it is equivalent to the existence of equilibrium with dividends.

This paper considers a two-period model of endogenous human capital formation under the credits-market imperfection and uncertainty assumptions. We compare in the first part of the paper ex-ante and ex-post general-equilibrium effects of the education subsidy policy to those of the negative...

The paper extends the canonical representative agent Ramsey model to include heterogeneous agents and elastic labor supply. The welfare maximization problem is analyzed and shown to be equivalent to a non-stationary reduced form model. An iterative procedure is exploited to prove the...

This paper develops a simple model of optimal growth with renewable resource and endogenous discounting. Relaxing the time-additivity preference hypothesis allows to make endogenous the rate of time preference and to reconsider the dynamics of models with concave resource. The possibility of...

We introduce differential information in the asset market model studied by Cheng (1991), Dana and Le Van (1996)and Le Van and Truong Xuan (2001). An equilibrium existence result is proven assuming that the economy's information structure satisfies the conditional independency property.