Buy-sell auction mechanisms in market equilibrium

  • Authors:
  • Sanjiv Kapoor

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

  • Venue:
  • WINE'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Internet and Network Economics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of computing market equilibrium when utilties are homothetic concave functions. We use the Fisher market model. The problem of finding a tâtonnement process for equilibrium in this case has been the subject of recent papers and determining an approximation is of considerable interest. Our buy-sell algorithm starts with an arbitrary price vector and converges to an ε -equilibrium price vector in time proportional to O (1/ε 2). This process attempts to closely mimic the convergence process of real-life markets.