Pareto improving financial innovation in incomplete markets

被引:66
作者
Cass, D
Citanna, A [1 ]
机构
[1] Carnegie Mellon Univ, GSIA, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[2] European Univ Inst, Dept Econ, I-50016 Firenze, Italy
关键词
JEL Classification Numbers: C60; D60; G10; D52.;
D O I
10.1007/s001990050198
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
In this paper we develop a differential technique for investigating the welfare effects of financial innovation in incomplete markets. Utilizing this technique, and after parametrizing the standard competitive, pure-exchange economy by both endowments and utility functions, we establish the following (weakly) generic property: Let S be the number of states, I be the number of assets and H be the number of households, and consider a particular financial equilibrium. Then, provided that the degree of market incompleteness is sufficiently larger than the extent of household heterogeneity, S - I greater than or equal to 2H -1 [resp. S - I greater than or equal to H + 1], there is an open set of single assets [resp. pairs of assets] whose introduction can make every household better off land, symmetrically, an open set of single assets [resp. pairs of assets] whose introduction can make them all worse off). We also devise a very simple nonparametric procedure for reducing extensive household heterogeneity to manageable size, a procedure which not only makes our restrictions on market incompleteness more palatable, but could also prove to be quite useful in other applications involving smooth analysis.
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页码:467 / 494
页数:28
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