ASSET VALUATION AND PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY IN AN OVERLAPPING-GENERATIONS MODEL WITH PRODUCTION SHOCKS

This paper extends the Cass criterion for production efficiency to include uncertainty and uses it to show that a stock market equilibrium in an overlapping-generations model with production uncertainty is efficient. It also develops a no-bubbles asset-pricing formula. Results are compared with Brock's (1982) infinite-lived consumer model and it is shown that the stock marker equilibrium in the overlapping-generations model has precisely the same asset valuation as Brock's infinitely-lived agent model.