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Dropping rational expectations

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  • Lionel De Boisdeffre

    (Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne & CATT - Université de Pau)

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We had proposed earlier a general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets and asymmetric information, where agents forecasted prices privately without rational expectations. Consistently, they anticipated idiosyncratic sets of future prices and elected probability laws on these sets, that we called beliefs. Under mild conditions and differently from Hart [1975] and Radner [1979] equilibrium always existed in this model, as long as agents' anticipations precluded arbitrage. The joint determination of equilibrium prices and beliefs is traditionally seen as a rational expectation problem. Hereafter, we suggest it may be otherwise. We propose to show that agents, whose prior anticipation sets yield an arbitrage, may update their expectations from observing trade opportunities on financial markets. With no price to be observed, they eventually infer smaller arbitrage-free anticipation sets, which can not be narrowed down any further. Once these sets are attained, equilibrium prices may change if agents change their beliefs, but they will convey the same information

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  • Lionel De Boisdeffre, 2015. "Dropping rational expectations," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 15038, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
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    1. Bernard Cornet & Lionel Boisdeffre, 2009. "Elimination of arbitrage states in asymmetric information models," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 38(2), pages 287-293, February.
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    Keywords

    Anticipations; inferences; perfect foresight; existence problem; rational expectations; financial markets; asymmetric information; arbitrage;
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    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets

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