We introduce the concepts of joint games and compatibility. In a joint game, members of the grand coalition have the option to split and maximize their total worths, over different games. In order to determine whether the grand coalition will remain intact, we introduce the notion of...

This paper embeds a staggered price feature into the standard speculative storage model of Deaton and Laroque (1996). Intermediate goods inventory speculators are added as an additional source of intertemporal linkage, which helps us to replicate the stylized facts of the observed commodity...

In this paper we consider the problem of optimal reinsurance design for general distortion risk measures and premiums. In the first part of the paper, we find the Lagrangian dual of the primal optimal reinsurance problem and show the strong duality holds. Therefore we characterize the optimal...