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On convergence of contractual trajectories in pure exchange economies

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The study is aimed to investigate the convergence to equilibrium of trajectories generated by contractual processes. “Contractual process” is a view on economy’s self-regulation, describing any state of exchange economy as a set of barter contracts among agents/coalitions. It is assumed that any moment of continuous time agents can partially break some contracts and sign more beneficial ones. Such reconstructing is called “benevolent”, when an agent/coalition breaks old contracts only when exhausting all other opportunities to increase welfare. Such processes are shown to con-verge to equilibrium under reasonable conditions, whereas non-benevolent processes need not converge, as shown by series of examples.

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  • Marakulin Valery, 2006. "On convergence of contractual trajectories in pure exchange economies," EERC Working Paper Series 06-07e, EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS.
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    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
    • D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies

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