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Market Equilibrium in Exchange Economies with Some Families of Concave Utility Functions

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  • Bruno Codenotti

    (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)

  • Kasturi Varadarajan

    (University of Iowa)

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We present explicit convex programs which characterize the equilibrium for certain additively separable utility functions and CES functions. These include some CES utility functions that do not satisfy weak gross substitutability.

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  • Bruno Codenotti & Kasturi Varadarajan, 2005. "Market Equilibrium in Exchange Economies with Some Families of Concave Utility Functions," Computational Economics 0503001, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpco:0503001
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