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- Title
Complete and incomplete markets with short-sale constraints.
- Authors
Giménez, Eduardo L.
- Abstract
This paper argues that the introduction of a short-sale constraint in the Arrow-Radner framework invalidates standard definitions of complete and incomplete markets. Two threshold values with familiar properties arise in this constrained set-up. If short sales are not allowed on some security, then financial markets will be incomplete in the standard sense. Beyond a particular level of the short-sale bound, financial markets are "complete", since the short-sale constraint is not effective. For intermediate bounds the distinction between complete and incomplete financial markets is blurred. Although some technical definitions hold, agents can not fully transfer wealth among states. These intermediate cases, called "technically incomplete markets", exhibit interesting welfare properties. For instance, the resulting equilibrium allocations may not be Pareto-dominated by those of the non-restricted complete markets equilibrium.
- Subjects
MARKETS; SALES; FINANCE; MONEY; ECONOMIC equilibrium; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Economic Theory, 2003, Vol 21, Issue 1, p195
- ISSN
0938-2259
- Publication type
Article