Fisher equilibrium price with a class of concave utility functions

  • Ning Chen
  • , Xiaotie Deng
  • , Xiaoming Sun
  • , Andrew Chi Chih Yao

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Abstract

In this paper we study efficient algorithms for computing equilibrium price in the Fisher model for a class of nonlinear concave utility functions, the logarithmic utility functions. We derive a duality relation between buyers and sellers under such utility functions, and use it to design a polynomial time algorithm for calculating equilibrium price, for the special case when either the number of sellers or the number of buyers is bounded by a constant.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsSusanne Albers, Tomasz Radzik
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages169-179
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)3540230254, 9783540230250
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3221
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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