• DOI:10.1111/1468-0262.00137
Corpus ID: 154060519

Efficiency, equilibrium, and asset pricing with risk of default

@article{lvarez2000EfficiencyEA,
  title={Efficiency, equilibrium, and asset pricing with risk of default},
  author={Fernando {\'A}lvarez and Urban J. Jermann},
  journal={Econometrica},
  year={2000},
  volume={68},
  pages={775-797}
}

• Fernando Álvarez, Urban J. Jermann
• Published 2000
• Economics
• Econometrica

We introduce a new equilibrium concept and study its efficiency and asset pricing implications for the environment analyzed by Kehoe and Levine (1993) and Kocherlakota (1996). Our equilibrium concept has complete markets and endogenous solvency constraints. These solvency constraints prevent default at the cost of reducing risk sharing. We show versions of the welfare theorems. We characterize the preferences and endowments that lead to equilibria with incomplete risk sharing. We compare the… Expand