Strategic market games with a finite horizon and incomplete markets

B-Tier
Journal: Economic Theory
Year: 2004
Volume: 23
Issue: 3
Pages: 467-491

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Abstract

We study a strategic market game associated to an intertemporal economy with a finite horizon and incomplete markets. We demonstrate that generically, for any finite number of players, every sequentially strictly individually rational and default-free stream of allocations can be approximated by a full subgame-perfect equilibrium. As a consequence, imperfect competition may Pareto-dominate perfect competition when markets are incomplete. Moreover - and this contrasts with the main message conveyed by the market games literature - there exists a large open set of initial endowments for which full subgame-perfect equilibria do not converge to $\eta$ -efficient allocations when the number of players tends to infinity. Finally, strategic speculative bubbles may survive at full subgame-perfect equilibria. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:spr:joecth:v:23:y:2004:i:3:p:467-491
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
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