On the boundary behavior of the excess demand function

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Ruscitti
Author(s):  
Enrique Covarrubias

The main contribution of this paper is to place smooth infinite economies in the setting of the equilibrium manifold and the natural projection map à la Balasko. We show that smooth infinite economies have an equilibrium set that has the structure of a Banach manifold and that the natural projection map is smooth. We define regular and critical economies, and regular and critical prices, and we show that the set of regular economies coincides with the set of economies whose excess demand function has only regular prices. Generic determinacy of equilibria follows as a by-product.


2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (04) ◽  
pp. 523-532
Author(s):  
PHAN THANH AN ◽  
VUONG THI THAO BINH

In this paper, a use of s-quasimonotonicity [introduced in Optimization, Vol. 55 (2006)] in an economics model is presented. We introduce a strong version of Wald's Axiom of excess demand functions [Formula: see text], namely "there exists σ > 0 such that p, q ∈ P, qT Z(p) - δ ≤ 0,|δ| < σ, and Z(q) ≠ Z(p) imply pTZ(q) + δ > 0". Under some assumptions, Z satisfies the strong version of Wald's Axiom iff -Z is a s-quasimonotone function. Consequently, an excess demand function Z satisfies the strong version of Wald's Axiom iff -Z is stable with respect to the pseudomonotonicity property (i.e. there exists ∊ > 0 such that -Z + a fulfills the pseudomonotonicity property for all a ∈ ℝn satisfying ‖a‖ < ∊). Some properties on the measure of the strong version of Wald's Axiom of excess demand functions are also presented.


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