Decentralized Pricing and the equivalence between Nash and Walrasian equilibrium

Journal article: We introduce, in the standard exchange economy model, market games in which agents use private prices as strategies. We give conditions on the game form that ensure that the only strict Nash equilibria of the game are the competitive equilibria of the underlying economy. This equivalence result has two main corollaries. First, it adds to the evidence that competitive equilibria can be strategically stable even in small economies. Second, it implies that competitive equilibria have good local stability properties under a large class of evolutionary learning dynamics.

Author(s)

Antoine Mandel, Herbert Gintis

Journal
  • Journal of Mathematical Economics
Date of publication
  • 2016
Keywords
  • Computational economics
  • Evolutionary game theory
  • Market games
  • Stability
  • General equilibrium
Pages
  • 84-92
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 63