# Questions tagged [general-equilibrium]

In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an overall (or "general") equilibrium.

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### GE with an intermediate good

intro I'm looking at a simple model with 1 consumer, 2 goods and 2 firms. I'm trying to get a price vector [p0, p1] that makes it work. By makes it work, I mean, ...
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### Walrasian Equilibrium in A Simple Assignment (Matching) Model

I am reading Acemoglu 1996 and the Walrasian allocation in section II makes me confused. The setting is following. The economy lasts for two periods and consists of two types of agents, firms and ...
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### Market with changing number of goods and services

In the General Equilibrium framework of Arrow, Debreau and others, there are a fixed number of commodities, which I feel is a valid assumption in the short run but maybe not in the long run. Over time,...
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### General Equilibrium: Two Consumers with Perfect Substitutes and Perfect Complements Utility Functions

I am attempting to solve a general equilibrium in pure exchange economy problem where the first consumer has an endowment of $(3, 4)$ and a utility function of $U(x) = 3x + 5y$. The second consumer ...
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### preference convexity and existence of equilbria

Consider a production economy with $L$ goods, a single consumer and a single producer whose production set are given by $Y\subset R^L$. Question is to find the existence condition of equilibria of ...
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### First welfare theorem and convexity

Are convex preferences needed for the first welfare theorem? It would see so. For example, we could have a situation in which B's indifference curve is non-convex, such that, at the equilibrium X, it ...
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### Edgeworth box and identical tastes

If tastes are homothetic and identical, does this imply that the contract curve is the line connecting the lower left and upper right corners of the box? My understanding: no, it does not. Consumers' ...
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### Is an input-output model an equilibrium model?

I know the difference between CGE and input-output models. But can an input-output model be called a equilibrium model?
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### Deadweight Loss Due to Taxes Represented on a Graph of the Market?

Let's say a market is operating at equilibrium, with MSB=MSC, and a tax is imposed on the market. This would shift the supply curve to the left and cause a deadweight loss represented by the triangle ...
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### Why is macroeconomics about general equilibrium?

In a fairly popular paper published a couple of years ago ("On the future of macroeconomic models"), Blanchard (2018) makes the following statement, among other "widely believed propositions": (i) ...
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### Equations of “rational mechanics” and general equilibrium

Vilfredo Pareto, referring to the equations that determine equilibrium, wrote: These equations do not seem new to me, they are old friends. They are the equations of rational mechanics. This ...
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I tried to solve by myself the exercises of MWG(Mas Colell). However, I think the exercise has an error at 17.D.1. The 17.D.1 asks us that "verify that there are multiple equilibria". However, The ...