Mistakes in cooperation: the stochastic stability of edgeworth's recontracting

Roberto Serrano and Oscar Volij ()

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: In an exchange economy with a finite number of indivisible goods, we analyze a dynamic trading process of coalitional recontracting where agents maymake mistakes with small probability. We show first that the recurrent classes of the unperturbed (mistake-free) process consist of (i) all core allocations as absorbing states, and (ii) non-singleton classes of non-core allocations. Next, we introduce a perturbed process, where the resistance of each transition is a function of the number of agents that make mistakes -do not improve- in the transition and of the seriousness of each mistake. If preferences are always strict, we show that the unique stochastically stable state of the perturbed process is the Walrasian allocation. In economies with indifferences, non-core cycles are sometimes stochastically stable, while some core allocations are not. The robustness of these results is confirmed in a weak coalitional recontracting process.

Date: 2005-11
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Journal Article: Mistakes in Cooperation: the Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting (2008)
Journal Article: Mistakes in Cooperation: The Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting (2008)
Working Paper: Mistakes in Cooperation: the Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting (2003)
Working Paper: MISTAKE IN COOPERATION:the Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting (2003)
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