Questions tagged [competitive-equilibrium]
The study of equilibrium when individual agents have no power to influence market-level variables like prices or quantities.
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Pure exchange economy: Given an initial endowment are multiple equilibria possible?
Consider a pure exchange economy with two goods ($x_1,x_2$) and two consumers $A,B$. Both users have an initial endowment, $(\omega_1^A,\omega_2^A)$ and $(\omega_1^B,\omega_2^B)$ respectively. A price ...
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Heckscher-Ohlin with heterogeneous preferences
could someone really help me out I would need to show a situation in which the Heckscher-Ohlin result does not necessarily hold when preferences are heterogeneous.
Does someone have an idea how I ...
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Pure exchange economy: Set of multiple equilibria endowments
Initial endowments which can result in multiple equilibria in a pure exchange economy are explained here. Given a pure exchange economy, that is given the utility functions (which fulfil the usual ...
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"Competitive equilibrium" vs. "General equilibrium"
What is the difference between the term "competitive equilibrium" and the term "general equilibrium"? Here in econ.SE, they are two different tags, so there is probably a difference between them, but ...
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What determines the outcome of a price war, and why isn't that outcome reached instantaneously?
Mary is making a hefty profit manufacturing and selling widgets. Jim has some money laying around and he is trying to figure out if he shouldn't start manufacturing some widgets too.
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Does the concept of Nash-equilibrium conflict with the concept of market equilibrium in the lemon market
Consider a version of Akerlof's Lemon market with two types of sellers. One type sells Quality cars the other type sells Lemons. Buyers' reservation prices are $r_{B,Q}$ for a Quality car and $r_{B,L}$...
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Why labour, capital, and output levels cannot be pinned down in perfect competition?
Consider a firm producing with the following technology:
\begin{equation}
Y = AL^{\alpha}K^{\beta}
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Assuming that factors are paid their marginal contribution to output, it can be ...
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Is Cobb-Douglas the only output function corresponding to a competitive economy?
Apologies if this is a rather simple question, I appreciate any guidance.
$$ Q(K,L) = AK^\alpha L^{\beta} $$
where A is a constant. Identify the conditions on $\alpha$ and $\beta$
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Uniqueness of utilities in competitive equilibrium
Suppose several traders are given some initial endowment of goods. Then, a free market opens and they trade until the market is at a competitive equilibrium. Each trader now has a final utility which ...
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Exchange economy with two agents, what's the competitive equilibrium?
I'm currently doing this assignment but I'm keep getting stuck by this question. I put the Lagrange function for both agents and get the MRS / Price ratio but what should I do from there?
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What does it mean when an economist talks about "equilibrium"
In economics, there are many equilibrium concepts, like equilibrium under perfect competition, Monopolist equilibrium, competitive equilibrium, general equilibrium, nash equilibrium, equilibrium price,...
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Can heterogeneous prices be consistent with competitive equilibrium?
I do not want to put many constraints on the structure of the problem, except by defining a competitive equilibrium as such where firms are price takers in the factor and good(s) market, and, perhaps (...
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Optimal production level for a typical firm in long-run
Assuming all firms have identical cost functions. Now suppose there is an increasing shift in the demand curve. As we all know that for increasing costs case, both average costs (AC) and marginal ...
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What are the best theoretical or empirical defenses of equilibrium analysis in economics?
An Anarchist FAQ (see Wikipedia page here) focuses its opposition to mainstream economics by criticizing equilibrium analysis. The FAQ notes that,
[Equilibrium analysis] is essentially a static tool ...
