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The Unit Root Property When Markets Are Sequentially Incomplete

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  • Antonio Jiménez-Martínez

    (Universidad de Alicante)

  • Subir Chattopadhyay

    (Universidad de Alicante)

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We consider pure exchange, one good OLG economies under stationary Markov uncertainty. It is known that when markets are sequentially complete, a stationary equilibrium at which the agents common matrix of intertemporal rates of substitution has a Perron root which is less than or equal to one is conditionally Pareto optimal (CPO). We assume that there exists a long-lived dividend paying asset and show that if dividends are strictly positive then the relation between the unit root condition and optimality holds even if markets are not sequentially complete. However, every equilibrium allocation is shown to be constrained CPO under the additional requirement that assets be freely disposable, which seems reasonable when dividends are positive and whose importance was pointed out by Santos and Woodford (1997) in their work on bubbles; this fact undermines the relation between the unit root property and optimality. The relation is less clear when dividends and asset prices are allowed to be negative in some states.

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  • Antonio Jiménez-Martínez & Subir Chattopadhyay, 2000. "The Unit Root Property When Markets Are Sequentially Incomplete," Working Papers. Serie AD 2000-32, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
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    1. Subir Chattopadhyay, 2001. "Long-Lived Assets, Incomplete Markets, And Optimality," Working Papers. Serie AD 2001-10, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).

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    Keywords

    Stochastic Overlapping Generations Models; IncompleteMarkets;

    JEL classification:

    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis

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