In a fully general semimartingale setting, this article establishes existence, uniqueness, monotonicity, concavity, and a utility gradient inequality for continuous-time recursive utility in the Epstein-Zin parametrization with relative risk aversion $\gamma$ and elasticity of intertemporal...

This paper presents results of a study that has shed new light on the shape of indifference curves in the Marschak-Machina triangle. The most important observation concerns jumps in indifference curves at the triangle legs towards the triangle origin. Such jumps, however, do not appear at the...

This paper studies the possibility of secure implementation (Saijo, T., T. Sjöström, and T. Yamato (2007) "Secure Implementation," Theoretical Economics 2, pp. 203-229) in divisible and non-excludable public good economies with quasi-linear utility functions. Although Saijo, Sjöström, and...

Banks are creatures of the market and creatures of the state. The call to reconceive banks as public utilities requires a critical redefinition, both of banks and of public utilities. Part of that redefinition must include naming the values and ends that bank regulation ought to serve. The...

In this paper we are concerned with the following question. Given an extended preference ordering under what conditions does there exist an empirical stochastic/social choice function which generates it? We use Farkas' lemma to obtain a necessary and sufficient condition under which such a...

This paper addresses whether and to what extent econometric methods used in experimental studies can be adapted and applied to financial data to detect the best-fitting preference model. To address the research question, we implement a frequently used nonlinear probit model in the style of Hey...