General Equilibrium With Uncertainty Loving Preferences

Aloisio Araujo, Alain Chateauneuf, Juan Pablo Gama and Rodrigo Novinski
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Aloisio Araujo: FGV - Fundacao Getulio Vargas [Rio de Janeiro]
Juan Pablo Gama: IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

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Abstract: More and more economists are finding both empirical and experimental evidence of economic behavior that is well beyond classical economics. In particular, empirical evidence ( Jullien and Salanié (2000)) and experimental evidence ( Kahneman and Tversky (1979)) supported the importance of risk loving, ambiguity loving, and related behavior in economics. However, these types of preferences have not been analyzed in the general equilibrium literature with a finite number of agents because non-convexity of preferences creates difficulty in proving existence of equilibrium. The main result in this paper provides a set of conditions under which equilibrium exists in such economies. We show that uncertainty of aggregate wealth, as well as some dominance of the endowment of the risk averters in the economy, play a role in the existence of Arrow–Debreu equilibria. This result can be extended to ambiguity in the sense of CEU, Smooth Ambiguity, and Variational Preference.

Keywords: General equilibrium; complete financial markets; risk loving; ambiguity; aggregate risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-09
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Published in Econometrica, 2018, 86 (5), pp.1859-1871. ⟨10.3982/ECTA14777⟩

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DOI: 10.3982/ECTA14777

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