We introduce a leverage-constrained financial intermediaries and market incompleteness into a three-period pure exchange economy with ex ante homogeneous households. Market incompleteness generates ex post heterogeneity in households' consumption and wealth distributions and arbitrage...

In this paper, we study the relationship between welfare and real interest rates in Aiyagari and Williamson's (2000) setting. They developed a dynamic insurance contract model with an incomplete market monetary economy and demonstrated that the optimal inflation rate is positive. This paper...

This paper introduces the "limited arbitrage" asset pricing mechanism into a pure exchange general equilibrium economy where households are marginal investors. The "limited arbitrage" model insists on the role of financial intermediaries in conducting fire sales. In our model, financial markets...

This study tackles a public finance issue on climate change: a carbon tax and government bonds to finance public spending for adaptation. This type of bond is known as ``green bonds" and presents remarkable growth in the global market. We construct an asset-pricing model in which climate change...

This study tackles a public finance issue on climate change: a carbon tax and government bonds to finance public spending for adaptation. This type of bond is known as “green bonds” and presents remarkable growth in the global market. We construct an asset-pricing model in which climate...