Research Article Details

Article ID: A38603
PMID: 10805818
Source: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Title: Nas-Walras equilibria of a large economy.
Abstract: Individuals exchange contracts for the delivery of commodities in competitive markets and, simultaneously, act strategically; actions affect utilities across individuals directly or through the payoffs of contracts. This encompasses economies with asymmetric information. Nash-Walras equilibria exist for large economies, even if utility functions are not quasi-concave and choice sets are not convex, which is the case in standard settings; the separation of the purchase from the sale of contracts and the pooling of the deliveries on contracts guarantee that the markets for commodities clear.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.10.5675