This paper provides sufficient conditions for the equilibrium price system and a vector of exogenously specified state variable processes to form a diffusion process is a pure exchange economy. The conditions involve smoothness of agents' utility functions and certain nice properties of the aggregate endowments process and the dividend processes of traded assets. In place of the dynamic programming, a martingale representation technique is utilized to characterize equilibrium portfolio policies. This technique is useful even when there does not exist a finite dimensional Markov structure in the economy and thus the Markovian stochastic dynamic programming is not applicable. Agents are shown to hold certain hedging mutual funds and the riskless asset. In contrast to earlier results, the market portfolio does not have a role in hedging. When there exists a finite dimensional Markov system in the economy, the dimension of the hedging demand identified through the Markovian dynamic programming may be much larger than that identified by the martingale method.
MLA
Huang, Chi-Fu. “An Intertemporal General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model: The Case of Diffusion Information.” Econometrica, vol. 55, .no 1, Econometric Society, 1987, pp. 117-142, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1911159
Chicago
Huang, Chi-Fu. “An Intertemporal General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model: The Case of Diffusion Information.” Econometrica, 55, .no 1, (Econometric Society: 1987), 117-142. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1911159
APA
Huang, C.-F. (1987). An Intertemporal General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model: The Case of Diffusion Information. Econometrica, 55(1), 117-142. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1911159
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