A perfect price discrimination market model with production, and a (rational) convex program for it

  • Authors:
  • Gagan Goel;Vijay Vazirani

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

  • Venue:
  • SAGT'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Algorithmic game theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recent results showed PPAD-completeness of the problem of computing an equilibrium for Fisher's market model under additively separable, piecewise-linear, concave utilities. We show that introducing perfect price discrimination in this model renders its equilibrium polynomial time computable. Moreover, its set of equilibria are captured by a convex program that generalizes the classical Eisenberg-Gale program, and always admits a rational solution. We also introduce production into our model; our goal is to carve out as big a piece of the general production model as possible while still maintaining the property that a single (rational) convex program captures its equilibria, i.e., the convex program must optimize individually for each buyer and each firm.