Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to study how the equilibrium prices and allocations in a linear exchange economy vary with respect to the intial endowments and utility vectors. We characterize an open dense subject of full measure of the initial endowment and utility vector space on which the equilibrium price vector is a real-analytic hence infinitely differentiable function. We provide an explicit formula to compute the equilibrium price and allocation around a point where it is known. We also show that the equilibrium price is a locally Lipschitzian mapping on the whole space.