Dense families of low-complexity attainable sets of markets

Louis J. Billera; Robert J. Weber

doi:10.1016/0304-4068(79)90026-0

Dense families of low-complexity attainable sets of markets

Louis J. Billera^*, Robert J. Weber

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Managerial Economics, Decision Sciences and Operations

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Abstract

The complexity of the attainable set of utility outcomes of a market (with finitely many traders) is defined as the least number of commodities involved in any market giving the same set. This notion is investigated both for the case of quasiconcave and concave utility functions. It is shown that, in either case, there is a dense collection of attainable sets, each having complexity at most n(n-1)/2.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	67-73
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Mathematical Economics
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4068(79)90026-0
State	Published - Jan 1 1979

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Economics and Econometrics
Applied Mathematics

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