When the asset market is incomplete, competitive equilibria are constrained suboptimal, which provides a scope for pareto improving interventions. Price regulation can be such a pareto improving policy, even when the welfare effects of rationing are taken into account. An appealing aspect of...

When assets are nominal, non-informative rational expectations equilibria exist. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory (1990) 15, 73–79. doi:10.1007/BF01498461

When assets are nominal, noninformative rational expectations equilibria exist.

In this chapter we entertain the hypothesis that observed variations in income shares are the result of changes in the balance of power between workers and capital owners in labor relations. We show that this view implies that income share variations represent a risk factor of first-order...

In this chapter we entertain the hypothesis that observed variations in income shares are the result of changes in the balance of power between workers and capital owners in labor relations. We show that this view implies that income share variations represent a risk factor of first-order...