This paper considers a two period general equilibrium production model with incomplete markets (GEI). The novelty of this model is the endogenous smooth asset structure introduced in Stiefenhofer (2010). It is shown that incomplete markets is a consequence of idiosyncratic risk.

This paper proposes an analytical framework to examine the role of public debt in financial development, which remains largely unexplored in the existing literature. We find that in countries where the banking sector extends substantial credit to government, public debt is likely to harm...

The paper considers production in a simple two period general equilibrium model with incomplete markets. It shows, by application of convex sets analysis, the separation of economic activities of the agents. The paper improves on Stiefenhofer (2010) by taking a geometric approach to the study of...

In this note it is shown that in contradiction to the well-known claim in Cox (AJPS, 1987) (repeated in a number of subsequent works), the uncovered set in a spatial voting situation does not necessarily coincide with the core even when the core is non-empty.

In this paper we examine whether an incentive scheme for improving research can have adverse effect on research itself. This work is mainly motivated by the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in UK. In a game theoretic framework we show that a scheme...

We introduce an incomplete markets general equilibrium model with idiosyncratic risk, where production is financed via stock market, and where the ownership structure endogenized. This model is a variation of Drèze (1974), Grossman and Hart (1979), and Magill and Quinzii (2002). The paper...

The paper develops a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets where the asset structure is endogenized. This asset structure allows to consider a new class of objective functions of profit maximizing firms. This class of objective functions is independent of the utilities of the stock...

In this paper, we extend the result of Dekel and Wollinsky ("Rationalizable Outcomes of Large Private-Value First-Price Discrete Auctions" Games and Economic Behavior, 2003) on rationalizable outcomes in first-price auctions. Dekel and Wollinsky show that under certain conditions, each player...

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees, indicating transmission through cultural factors....

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide institutional reform on well-being. Changes in population heights are regarded as virtuous pointers of well-being improvements in psycho-social environments, which improve with...