Output Uncertainty Mitigation in Competitive Markets

Bingbing Li and Yan Long
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Bingbing Li: Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University
Yan Long: Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University

No 698, Center for Mathematical Economics Working Papers from Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University

Abstract: Output uncertainty is a major concern for industries prone to ex- ogenous, persistent and large fluctuations in output, such as agri- culture, wind and solar power generation, while technology adoption aimed at mitigating output uncertainty can improve social welfare. This paper constructs a competitive market model with random out- put fluctuations to examine the scale of technology adoption at the long-term equilibrium and its comparison with the social optimum. We show that the First Welfare Theorem no longer holds in general, and depending on the characteristics of the demand function, the scale of technology adoption in the competitive market may be greater or less than the socially optimal scale.

Keywords: technology adoption; uncertainty mitigation; long-term equilibrium; non-optimal scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2024-11-14
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