Radner equilibrium
Radner equilibrium is an economic concept defined by economist Roy Radner in the context of general equilibrium. The concept is an extension of the Arrow–Debreu equilibrium and the base for the first consistent incomplete markets framework.
The concept departs from the Arrow-Debreu framework in two ways:
- Uncertainty is explicitly modeled through a tree structure rendering passage of time and resolution of uncertainty explicit.
- Budget feasibility is no longer defined as affordability but through explicit trading of financial instruments. Financial instruments are used to allow insurance and inter-temporal wealth transfers across spot markets at each nodes of the tree. Economic agents face a sequence of budget sets, one at each date-state.
At a Radner equilibrium like the Arrow–Debreu equilibrium under uncertainty, perfect consensual foresight is used. It is what is called a rational expectation model.