Indivisible goods, equilibrium and convex economies
Luciano Méndez-Naya and
José Méndez-Naya
Journal of Economic Theory, 2024, vol. 222, issue C
Abstract:
We study the existence of competitive equilibria in economies with indivisible goods. The first result provides a novel sufficient condition for an economy with indivisible goods to have competitive equilibrium. This condition states that the cooperative game associated with the economy has a non-empty core. Crucially, this sufficient condition is also necessary when the economy is convex. This characterization implies that every two-agent convex economy has at least one competitive equilibrium.
Keywords: Competitive equilibrium; Indivisibles; Convexity; Cooperative games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2024.105930
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