We consider the problem of efficient insurance contracts when the cost structure includes a fixed cost per claim. We prove existence of efficient insurance contracts and that the indemnity function in such contracts is non-decreasing in the damage. We further show that either there is no...

This paper analyses the qualitative properties of optimal contracts when agents have multiple priors and are uncertainty averse in an infinite state space framework. The case of the epsilon-contamination of a given prior, a basic tool in robustness theory is fully developped. It is shown that if...

This paper considers a class of one dimensional calculus of variations problems with monotonicity and comonotonicity constraints arising in economic and financial models where law invariant concave criteria (or law invariant convex measures of risk) are used. Existence solutions, optimality...

An exchange economy in which agents have convex incomplete preferences defined by families of concave utility functions is considered. Sufficient conditions for the set of efficient allocations and equilibria to coincide with the set of efficient allocations and equilibria that result when each...

Efficient risk-sharing rules and equilibria between two agents with utilities in a class that contains the Rank Dependent Expected Util- ity (RDU) are fully characterized. Specific attention is given to the RDU. Call-spreads and contracts with mixed regimes are shown to be efficient....

We consider a class of law invariant utilities which contains the Rank Dependent Expected Utility (RDU) and the cumulative prospect theory (CPT). We show that the computation of demand for a contingent claim when utilities are within that class, although not as simple as in the Expected Utility...

Efficient risk-sharing rules and equilibria between two agents with utilities in a class that contains the Rank Dependent Expected Util- ity (RDU) are fully characterized. Specific attention is given to the RDU. Call-spreads and contracts with mixed regimes are shown to be efficient....

We consider a class of law invariant utilities which contains the Rank Dependent Expected Utility (RDU) and the cumulative prospect theory (CPT). We show that the computation of demand for a contingent claim when utilities are within that class, although not as simple as in the Expected Utility...

This paper provides an existence theorem for a class of infinite-dimensional non-convex problems arising in symmetric and asymmetric information models. Sufficient conditions for monotonicity of solutions are also given. The proofs are very simple and rely on rearrangement techniques and the...