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A Demand Adjustment Process

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  • Elaine Bennett

    (UCLA)

  • William Zame

    (UCLA)

  • Michael Maschler

    (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Abstract

The aspiration approach to cooperative games, which has been studied by a number of authors, including Cross, Turbay, Albers, Selten and Bennett, presumes that players in a game bargain over their reservation prices, or aspirations. A number of aspiration-based solution concepts have been put forth, and aspiration solutions have been connected to non-cooperative bargaining models. Missing in this approach has been theory of how aspirations themselves arise. The present paper is an attempt to fill this gap. It describes a very general demand adjustment process, using the framework of set-valued dynamical systems developed by Maschler and Peleg. This demand adjustment process always converges; sufficient conditions are given in order that it converge to an aspiration, and that it converge in a finite number of steps.
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  • Elaine Bennett & William Zame & Michael Maschler, 1994. "A Demand Adjustment Process," UCLA Economics Working Papers 724, UCLA Department of Economics.
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