Given an underlying complete financial market, we study the pricing and hedging of contingent claims whose payoffs may depend on the occurrence of extraneous, non market events. After a detailed analysis of the arbitrage pricing and almost sure hedging of such claims, we specialize our framework...

We explore price dynamics in a `cash in the market' asset pricing model, where the price of an asset is the ratio of the amount of cash chasing the asset to the available supply of the asset. Traders base their current trading strategies on their beliefs about future cash inflows/outflows in the...

This paper estimates a general equilibrium model of school quality and household residential and school choice for economies with multiple public school districts and private (religious and non-sectarian) schools. The estimates, obtained through full-solution methods, are used to simulate two...

Electricity economics has stimulated the development of important branches of economic theory like the theories of peak-load and second-best pricing. Its problems are rarely simple and their difficulty is often aggravated by the non-storable nature of electricity. First intuitions can even be...