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The International Finance Discussion Papers logo links to the International Finance Discussion Papers home page The Role of Fiscal Policy in an Incomplete Markets Framework
Charles P. Thomas
1993-451  (September 1993)

Abstract:  A general-equilibrium model is developed to highlight the link between neo-Keynesian models of unemployment and recent results on the constrained suboptimality of competitive economies with incomplete asset markets. Although the model deviates from the Arrow-Debreu paradigm only by the absence of some contingent claims, the competitive equilibrium exhibits under�employment and balanced-budget fiscal policies have Keynesian effects which are Pareto improving.

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