Sharing Beliefs: Between Agreeing and Disagreeing

Antoine Billot, Alain Chateauneuf, Itzhak Gilboa and Jean-Marc Tallon

Papiers d'Economie Mathématique et Applications from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: In an exchange economy with no aggregate uncertainty, and Bayesian agents, Pareto optimal allocations provide full insurance if and only if the agents have a common prior. It is hard to explain why there is relatively so little betting taking place. One is led to ask, when are full insurance allocations optimal for uncertainty averse agents? it turns out that commonality of beliefs, appropriately defined, is key again.

Keywords: OPTIMIZATION; UTILITY FUNCTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D51 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 1998
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