Market equilibrium with transaction costs

  • Authors:
  • Sourav Chakraborty;Nikhil R. Devanur;Chinmay Karande

  • Affiliations:
  • Chennai Mathematical Institute, India;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

  • Venue:
  • WINE'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Internet and network economics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Identical products being sold at different prices in different locations is a common phenomenon. To model such scenarios, we supplement the classical Fisher market model by introducing transaction costs. For every buyer i and good j, there is a transaction cost of cij ; if the price of good j is pj, then the cost to the buyer i per unit of j is pj + cij. The same good can thus be sold at different (effective) prices to different buyers. We provide a combinatorial algorithm that computes ε-approximate equilibrium prices and allocations in O(1/ε (n + logm)mnlog(B/ε)) operations - where m is the number goods, n is the number of buyers and B is the sum of the budgets of all the buyers.