General Equilibrium Foundations of Finance Structure of Incomplete M
The purpose of this book is to give a sound economic foundation of finance. Finance is a coherent branch of applied economics that is designed to understand financial markets in order to give advice for practical financial decisions. This book argues that
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GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM FOUNDATIONS OF FINANCE Structure of Incomplete Markets Models by
THORSTEN HENS University a/Zurich, Switzerland and Norwegian Business School, Norway
and
BEATE PILGRIM Reuters AG, Frankfurt, Germany
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-1-4419-5333-9 ISBN 978-1-4757-5317-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-5317-2
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To Britta and Jerome
Contents
List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction
Part I
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The General Equilibrium Model with Incomplete Markets
l. THE MODEL AND SOME FUNDAMENTALS I
2
Information Structure And Commodity Space Consumer Characteristics Expected Utility Hypothesis
2.1 3
Market Structure Payoff Matrix Budget Set
3.1 3.2 4
5 6 7
3 3 4 8 12 12 13
Competitive Equilibria and No-Arbitage Financial Markets Equilibrium Concept 4.1 No-Arbitrage Condition 4.2 Walras Law in the First Period 4.3 Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing 4.4 4.5 Asset Pricing Theories 4.6 No-Arbitrage Equilibrium Concept Dual concepts of excess demand Pricing of Derivatives Efficiency of GEl-equilibria
2. EXISTE
