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Browsing ECO Articles by Author "GOTTARDI, Piero"
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Title:Bankruptcy, Finance Constraints, and the Value of the Firm
Author(s):GALE, Douglas; GOTTARDI, PieroDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature, and default may lead to the sale of the firms' assets at fire sale prices when a finance ...
Title:Social Security and Risk Sharing
Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; KUBLER, FelixDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we identify conditions under which the introduction of a pay-as-you-go social security system is ex ante Pareto-improving in a stochastic OLG economy with capital accumulation and land. We argue that these ...
Title:Markets and Contracts
Author(s):BISIN, Alberto; GEANAKOPOLS, John; GOTTARDI, Piero; MINELLI, Enrico; POLEMARCHAKIS, HeraklesDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Economies with asymmetric information are encompassed by an extension of the model of general competitive equilibrium that does not require an explicit modeling of private information. Sellers have discretion over deliveries ...