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Radner (Econometrica 36, 31–58 1968) proved existence of a competitive equilibrium for differential information economies with finitely many states. We extend this result to economies with infinitely many states of nature. Each agent observes a public and a private signal. The publicly observed signal may take infinitely many values but, in order to get existence, we assume that private signals only take finitely many values. Actually, there is no hope to get a general existence result since Podczeck et al. (Vienna University Working Papers 2008) already proposed non-existence results.
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We would like to thank a referee and the Associate Editor for valuable suggestions and remarks. The actual version of the paper has benefited from their comments. This work commenced while V.F. Martins-da-Rocha and P.K. Monteiro were visiting RGEA. Carlos Hervés Beloso acknowledges support from BEC2003-09067-C04-01 (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología and FEDER) and PGIDT04XIC30001PN (Xunta de Galicia). V.F. Martins-da-Rocha acknowledges partial financial support from PRONEX. P.K. Monteiro acknowledges the financial support of CNPq/Edital Universal 02/2006.
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Hervés-Beloso, C., Martins-da-Rocha, V.F. & Monteiro, P.K. Equilibrium theory with asymmetric information and infinitely many states. Econ Theory 38, 295–320 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-008-0359-3
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