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The behavioral finance literature cites the frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) futures market as a prominent example of the failure of prices to reflect fundamentals.(...)
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The abolition or reform of unfunded pensions will generally make members of a transitional generation worse-off, because of the "double burden" of funding their own retirement along with that of paying off the unfunded pension liability. Reform will also lower the time-path of interest rates,...
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We extend the simple model of voluntary public good provision toallow for two or more public goods, and explore the new possibilitiesthat arise in this setting. We show that, when there are many publicgoods, voluntary contrib...
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We prove the existence of Pareto optimal allocations within sets of acceptableallocations when decision makers have probabilistic sophisticated variational pref-erences dened on random endowments in L1.[...]
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Limited liability creates a conict of interests between policyholders and shareholders ofinsurance companies. It provides shareholders with incentives to increase the risk of theinsurer's assets and liabilities which, in turn, might reduce the value policyholders attach toand premiums they are...
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This paper deals with the superhedging of derivatives on incomplete markets, i.e.with portfolio strategies which generate payoffs at least as high as that of a givencontingent claim. The simplest solution to this problem is in many cases a staticsuperhedge, i.e. a buy-and-hold strategy...
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We show the incentive for divisionalization by a monopolist producer. Incontrast to the previous literature, where divisionalization occurs for product marketadvantage, we show that divisionalization occurs if it provides strategic advantage inthe labor market. With unionized labor market, we...
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We develop a method that allows one to compute incomplete-market equilibria routinely forMarkovian equilibria (when they exist). The main difficulty to be overcome arises from the setof state variables. There are, of course, exogenous state variables driving the economy but, in anincomplete...
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We prove that for any incomplete market and any concave utilityfunction the marginal propensities to consume and to save are alwayspositive. Furthermore, we introduce a class of incomplete markets thatincludes almost all well known examples of market incompleteness infinance and macroeconomics....
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Derivative financial instruments are frequently used as a tool for influencing the risk ofentrepreneurial uncertain payoff. To this end, an approximation procedure is developed capable ofcalculating the optimal quantity of derivatives to be used. It is assumed that the entrepreneurial cashflow...
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