An account is given of the principal concepts and results of general equilibrium with incomplete financial markets over a finite horizon, focusing on the generic existence, suboptimality and determinacy of equilibrium. Many results depend on the nature of the financial securities, whether they...

This entry describes housing wealth and the role it plays in household finance.

The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to trillions more in variable rate mortgage and student loans....

Economists have studied for a long time how decision-makers allocate scarce resources. The recent literature on rational inattention studies how decision-makers allocate the scarce resource attention. The idea is that decision-makers have a limited amount of attention and have to decide how to...