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Equilibria for economies with production: constant-returns technologies and production planning constraints
Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithm, pp.688-697
SODA '06
01/22/2006
DOI: 10.1145/1109557.1109632
Abstract
We consider the computation of equilibria in two economic models that generalize the exchange model by including production. In the constant returns model , each producer has a convex, constant-returns-to-scale, technology. In particular, this means that if the technology can output a certain quantity of a good using as input certain quantities of other goods, then scaling all these quantities by a common, non-negative, number also results in a technologically feasible plan. The technology also accomodates the no-free-lunch property, which says that it is not possible to produce something from nothing. At a given price, the producer picks a technologically feasible plan that maximizes her profit. Associated with each consumer is an initial endowment of goods and a utility function that describes her preferences between various bundles of goods. At a given price, the consumer sells her initial endowment, thus obtaining a certain income, and demands the bundle of goods maximizing her utility among all bundles that she can afford at the given price with her income.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Equilibria for economies with production: constant-returns technologies and production planning constraints
- Creators
- Kamal JainKasturi Varadarajan
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithm, pp.688-697
- Series
- SODA '06
- DOI
- 10.1145/1109557.1109632
- Publisher
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/22/2006
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984259410702771
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