Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7359475 | Journal of Economic Theory | 2016 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
We consider an economy populated by smooth ambiguity-averse agents with complete markets of securities contingent to economic scenarios, where bankruptcy is permitted but there is a penalty for it. We show that if agents' posterior belief reductions given by their “average probabilistic beliefs” do not become homogeneous then an equilibrium does not exist. It is worth noting that our main result does not imply any convergence of ambiguity perception or even the attitudes towards it. In this way, complete markets with default and punishment allow for ambiguity aversion in the long run, and the agents can disagree on their ambiguity perception but they must agree on their expected beliefs.
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Authors
Aloisio Araujo, Pietro da Silva, José Heleno Faro,