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Unpublished Paper
Competitive Equilibrium Without Transitivity, Monotonicity, or Free Disposal
Department of Economics, UCSB (1973)
  • Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract

This paper shows how to relax several of the standard assumptions used to prove the existence of competitive equilibrium. I thought it was more interesting than the referees did. Some of the ideas in this paper appear in my other papers on general equilibrium.

Keywords
  • existence of competitive equilibrium,
  • non-transitive preferences,
  • free disposal,
  • monotonic preferences,
  • fixed points
Disciplines
Publication Date
December 15, 1973
Citation Information
Ted Bergstrom. "Competitive Equilibrium Without Transitivity, Monotonicity, or Free Disposal" Department of Economics, UCSB (1973)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/46/