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Mistakes in Cooperation: the Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting

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Roberto Serrano () (Department of Economics, Brown University)
Oscar Volij () (Department of Economics, Iowa State University)

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In an exchange economy with a finite number of indivisible goods, we analyze a dynamic trading process of coalitional recontracting where agents may make mistakes with small probability. We show first that the recurrent classes of the unperturbed (mistake free) process consist of (i) all core allocations as absorbing states, and (ii) cycles of non-core allocations. Next, we introduce a perturbed process, where the resistance of each transition is a function of the number of agents that make mistakes-–do not improve–-in the transition and of the seriousness of each mistake. If preferences are always strict, we show that the unique stochastically stable state of the perturbed process is the Walrasian allocation. In economies with indifferences, non-core cycles are sometimes stochastically stable, while some core allocations are not.

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Paper provided by Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science in its series Economics Working Papers with number 0029.

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Keywords: Stochastic Stability Exchange Economies Assignment Problems Core Walrasian Equilibrium

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  1. Michihiro Kandori & Roberto Serrano & Oscar Volij, 2004. "Decentralized Trade, Random Utility and the Evolution of Social Welfare," Economics Working Papers 0042, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science. [Downloadable!]
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