Survival conditions ensure the presence of consumptions that cost less than the total contingent income of agents in general equilibrium models. These conditions are generally fulfilled in competitive equilibrium. This paper shows the existence of equilibrium for incomplete-market economies...

Portfolio constraints often prevent financial derivatives from being synthetically created by primitive assets and thus, open a way for the 'redundant' assets to participate in expanding risk-sharing opportunities. They bring about peculiar portfolios, called 'link portfolios,' at an aggregate...

We consider a class of generalized capital asset pricing models in continuous time with a finite number of agents and tradable securities. The securities may not be sufficient to span all sources of uncertainty. If the agents have exponential utility functions and the individual endowments are...

The general equilibrium model with incomplete asset markets provides a unified framework for many problems in finance and macroeconomics. In its simplest version with only two time periods and a single physical commodity the model is ideally suited for the study of problems in cross sectional...

In this paper we argue that in realistically calibrated two period general equilibrium models with incomplete markets CAPM-pricing provides a good benchmark for equilibrium prices even when agents are not mean-variance optimizers and returns are not normally distributed. We numerically...

The risk-sharing role of redundant assets is not yet fully understood in constrained asset markets. For example, the well-known notions of arbitrage may fail to explain the viability property of asset prices when redundant assets are involved in generating a nontrivial linear structure of free...

We consider economies with additively separable utility functions and give conditions for the two-agents case under which the existence of sunspot equilibria is equivalent to the occurrence of the transfer paradox. This equivalence enables us to show that sunspots cannot matter if the initial...

In this paper, the standard two-period general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets is considered. First, existence of equilibrium is proved using a stationary point argument on the set of no-arbitrage prices. Prices are normalized with respect to the market portfolio. The proof...

Market frictions create portfolios of complicated nature, constrained zero-income portfolios. They generate no income in the future contingencies but matter to risk sharing whether they are mispriced or not. The no arbitrage conditions of the literature may not be qualified for equilibrium...