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A note on Pareto optimality in incomplete markets

Christos E. Kountzakis

International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives2025https://doi.org/10.1504/ijfmd.2025.151611article
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The aim of this paper is to show in a detailed way, whether the first welfare theorem is valid in the case of incomplete markets. The first welfare theorem is true, under assumptions that rely on the existence of equilibrium in incomplete markets and its validity is heavily related to differentiability and strict convexity assumptions for the utility functions of the investors. In this paper we show that this frame may be weaker. The assumptions for the utility functions may be weaker and they actually fit the assumptions recently obtained for the existence of equilibrium. However, there is not any exact version of the first welfare theorem, relying on a specific model about utility functions and structure of the markets themselves. This fact actually makes our paper significant.

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@article{christos2025,
  title        = {{A note on Pareto optimality in incomplete markets}},
  author       = {Christos E. Kountzakis},
  journal      = {International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1504/ijfmd.2025.151611},
}

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