We study a financial market economy with a continuum of borrowers and pooling of borrowers’ promises. Under these conditions and in the absence of designing costs, utility-maximizing decisions of price-taking borrowers may lead to financial market incompleteness. Parametrizing equilibria...

In a two-period sunspot economy with inside money and "S" possible realizations of the sunspot, we prove that, generically in the space of utility functions, there are ["S" - 1] degrees of real indeterminacy. This result generalizes the previously known result for sunspot models that,...

In this paper the existence of unemployment is partly explained as being the result of coordination failures. It is shown that as a result of self-fulfilling pessimistic expectations, even at Walrasian prices, a continuum of equilibria results, among which an equilibrium with approximately no...