Existence of Walrasian equilibria with discontinuous, non-ordered, interdependent and price-dependent preferences, without free disposal, and without compact consumption sets
- Author(s)
- Konrad Podczeck, Nicholas C. Yannelis
- Abstract
We extend a result on existence of Walrasian equilibria in He and Yannelis (Econ Theory 61:497-513, 2016) by replacing the compactness assumption on consumption sets made there by the standard assumption that these sets are closed and bounded from below. This provides a positive answer to a question explicitly raised in He and Yannelis (Econ Theory 61:497-513, 2016). Our new equilibrium existence theorem generalizes many results in the literature as we do not require any transitivity or completeness or continuity assumption on preferences, initial endowments need not be in the interior of the consumption sets, preferences may be interdependent and price-dependent, and no monotonicity or local non satiation is needed for any of the agents.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economics
- External organisation(s)
- University of Iowa
- Journal
- Economic Theory
- Volume
- 73
- Pages
- 413-420
- No. of pages
- 8
- ISSN
- 0938-2259
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-021-01400-6
- Publication date
- 10-2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502047 Economic theory
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/existence-of-walrasian-equilibria-with-discontinuous-nonordered-interdependent-and-pricedependent-preferences-without-free-disposal-and-without-compact-consumption-sets(c78adb26-a626-4e9b-b437-b6d862e0d781).html