INOUE Tomoki
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Political Science and Economics
   Position   Senior Assistant Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2005/08
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Do pure indivisibilities prevent core equivalence? Core equivalence theorem in an atomless economy with purely indivisible commodities only
Contribution Type Sole-authored
Journal Journal of Mathematical Economics
Volume, Issue, Page 41(4-5),pp.571-601
Details We consider a pure exchange economy with a continuum of agents and finitely many indivisible commodities. Every commodity can be consumed only in integer amounts. Thus, agents' preferences are locally satiated and no commodity bundle has necessarily local cheaper points. We introduce a core which is an intermediate concept between the strong core and the weak core. In our economy, this core is the most natural concept in the sense that it coincides with the set of all exactly feasible Walras allocations.
DOI 10.1016/j.jmateco.2004.09.004