Our goal in this paper is to study the Bankruptcy Laws under the approach of the Economic Theory. In this sense, we present some suggestions of the recent literature and study the convenience of their practical use. We also show, through numerical examples, how to obtain a Pareto improvement by...

This paper studies a class of one-dimensional screening problems where the agent's utility function does not satisfy the Spence-Mirrlees condition (SMC). The strength of the SMC for hidden information problems is to provide a full characterization of implementable contracts using only the local...

When infinite-lived agents trade long-lived assets secured by durable goods, equilibrium exists without any additional debt constraints or uniform impatience conditions on agents' characteristics. Also, price bubbles are absent when physical endowments are uniformly bounded away from zero.