Specialization, inequality and the social stability of economies with collective property rights

Many, if not most, economies are observed to exhibit some form of collective ownership with some goods. These economies may fail to be socially stable, in the sense that the economy has an empty core; some groups may have an incentive to ‘recontract out’. We show that, for a class of economies with collective ownership, sufficient ‘specialization’ in the endowment holdings of these economies gives rise to a non-empty core, so achieving social stability. It is shown, moreover, that reductions in income inequality are consistent with social stability, to the extent that these reductions preserve or increase ‘specialization’ in the economy. Finally, we show that our notion of specialization is not limited to the privatized sector of the economy. Even in economies in which there is no privately held property, sufficient specialization guarantees that the economy is socially stable.     

中国上市建筑企业规模经济和范围经济评价——一种随机边界成本函数方法

目前对于企业规模经济和范围经济的研究大多数是在不存在X无效的假设下进行的。即认为企业始终是在它们的有效边界内的,因此对企业规模经济和范围经济的实证研究也都是X有效的前提下的。本文试图采用一种成本非有效的随机边界成本函数,建立广义超越对数成本函数模型对企业规模经济和范围经济进行评价。数据来源于深沪两市建筑业板块25家上市公司2003-2007年的年度报告。研究结果表明:我国上市建筑企业中同时存在着规模不经济和范围不经济,而不存在X无效性假设条件下的估计结果使得规模经济值被提高。     

带交易费用的无限期资产市场预期均衡的存在性

本文通过一个简单的模型证明了带交易费用的无限期资产经济预期均衡存在性，所用条件与已有文献相比更加简明     

On the convergence to Walrasian prices in random matching Edgeworthian economies

We show that for a specific class of random matching Edgeworthian economies, the expectation of the limiting equilibrium price coincides with the equilibrium price of the related Walrasian economies. This result extends to the study of economies in the presence of uncertainty within the multi-period Arrow-Debreu model, allowing to understand the dynamics of how beliefs survive and propagate through the market.     

Linear Transformation of Products: Games and Economies

In this paper, we introduce situations involving the linear transformation of products (LTP). LTP situations are production situations where each producer has a single linear transformation technique. First, we approach LTP situations from a (cooperative) game theoretical point of view. We show that the corresponding LTP games are totally balanced. By extending an LTP situation to one where a producer may have more than one linear transformation technique, we derive a new characterization of (nonnegative) totally balanced games: each totally balanced game with nonnegative values is a game corresponding to such an extended LTP situation. The second approach to LTP situations is based on a more economic point of view. We relate (standard) LTP situations to economies in two ways and we prove that the economies are standard exchange economies (with production). Relations between the equilibria of these economies and the cores of cooperative LTP games are investigated.     

带交易费用的可数无限态两期经济的均衡存在性

To some two-period economies with countable infinite state spaces,the existence of expectation equilibrium of real asset economies with transaction costs is given. This work extends the researches of Zame in 1993.     

有偿付约束的无限期资产经济均衡的存在性

本文通过一个简单的模型证明了有偿付约束的无限期资产经济均衡存在性,所用条件与已有文献相比更加简明．这一研究可望为我们今后研究无限期经济提供方向：同时也可以更好地理解偿付约束（或保证金制度）在资本市场中的作用     

A Fixed-Point Theorem and Equilibria of Abstract Economies with Weakly Upper Semicontinuous Set-Valued Maps

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of weakly upper semicontinuous set-valued maps and to establish a new fixed-point theorem. The set-valued maps with an approximating upper semicontinuous selection property are also defined. Next, we use our fixed-point result to obtain equilibrium existence in abstract economies with two constraints, which provide a natural scenario for potential applications of our approach to general equilibrium theory. In this regard, we set models of economies with asymmetric informed agents, who are able to improve their initial information through market signals. These economies offer examples in which the informational feasibility requirement represents an additional constraint.     

O.R. Education and Developing Economies with Special Reference to India

The paper reviews the current state of application of O.R. in general and in developed economies in particular. It then analyses the causes for unsatisfactory application of O.R. in developing economies. Based on the analysis, the paper proceeds to review the existing O.R. education and training and develops an integrated design of O.R. education and training for developing economies. The paper outlines the role that international agencies should play in implementing the proposed scheme of O.R. education and training for developing economies.     

Computing economies of vertical integration,economies of scope and economies of scale using partial frontier nonparametric methods

So far, in the nonparametric literature only full frontier nonparametric methods have been applied to search for economies of scope and scale, particularly the data envelopment analysis method (DEA). However, these methods present some drawbacks that might lead to biased results. This paper proposes a methodology based on more robust partial frontier nonparametric methods to look for scope and scale economies. Through this methodology it is possible to assess the robustness of these economies, and in particular to assess the influence that extreme data or outliers might have on them. The influence of the imposition of convexity on the production set of firms was also investigated. This methodology was applied to the water utilities that operated in Portugal between 2002 and 2008. There is evidence of economies of vertical integration and economies of scale in drinking water supply utilities and in water and wastewater utilities operating mainly in the retail segment. Economies of scale were found in water and wastewater utilities operating exclusively in the wholesale, and in some of these utilities diseconomies of scope were also found. The proposed methodology also allowed us to conclude that the existence of some smaller utilities makes the minimum optimal scales go down.     

The values of nonstandard exchange economies

R. J. Aumann has stated and rigorously proved the value equivalence theorem for exchange economies with a non-atomic continuum of traders. The analogous results is established here for nonstandard exchange economies using Abraham Robinson’s calculus of infinitesimals. The proof is patterned after a short heuristic argument given by Aumann. The research in this paper was supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation.     

On the complexity of simultaneous price-quantity adjustment processes

While the Walrasian price tâtonnement represents the traditional dynamic process in the general equilibrium context with and without production, Walras and other classics designed the process exclusively for pure exchange economies. In productive economies, the short-run output adjustment of existing firms and the entry/exit of firms should be modeled as well. So-called cross-dual processes which represent the classical approach to the dynamics of productive economies are discussed and extended. Complex motion can emerge in a discrete-time version of the original two-dimensional system when the aggregate demand function has a non-standard shape. A simultaneous process of price and short-run quantity adjustment with free entry and exit of competitive firms in a single market with a continuum of firms can generate closed orbits via a Hopf bifurcation when the slope of the demand function is positive at equilibrium. When the continuum economy is replaced by an economy with a finite number of firms, noisy limit cycles and complicated behavior can be observed.     

Exploring multiple equilibria for symmetric 2×2 CES/LES pure exchange economies

This paper explores the existence of 3 equilibria for symmetric 2-individual 2-good CES/LES pure exchange economies. For certain parameterizations in the economies, we show analytically that there are no more than 3 equilibria. We generalize our analytical results of existence of 3 equilibria for a wide range of parameterizations. Then we provide examples of 3 equilibria and parameter zones of 3 equilibria for CES and CES/LES economies.     

The Marginal Pricing Rule in Economies with Infinitely Many Commodities

Clarke's normal cone appears as the right tool to define the marginal pricing rule in finite dimensional commodity space since it allows to consider in the same framework convex, smooth as well as nonsmooth nonconvex production sets. Furthermore it has nice continuity and convexity properties. But it is not well adapted for economies with infinitely many commodities since it does satisfy minimal continuity properties. In this paper, we propose an alternative definition of the marginal pricing rule. It allows us to prove the second welfare theorem and the existence of marginal pricing equilibria for economies with several producers under assumptions similar to the one used for economies with a finite set of commodities. Our approach is sufficiently general to take into account the convex and the smooth cases for which our definition of the marginal pricing rule coincides with the one given by the Clarke's normal cone or the normal cone of convex analysis.     

On a New Class of Systems of Generalized Quasi-Variational Inequalities

We introduce new types of systems of generalized quasi-variational inequalities and we prove the existence of the solutions by using results of pair equilibrium existence for free abstract economies. We consider the fuzzy models and we also introduce the random free abstract economy and the random equilibrium pair. The existence of the solutions for the systems of quasi-variational inequalities comes as consequences of the existence of equilibrium pairs for the considered free abstract economies.     

Estimating scale economies in non-convex production models

The literature on nonparametric frontier technologies lacks a method for the measurement of scale economies in non-convex settings. This paper proposes a general procedure which is based on the minimization of the ray average cost and requires the solution of a single programming problem. Our approach allows for multiple optima to introduce the case of global sub-constant scale economies, and it also permits the estimation of scale economies at a local level. The empirical application investigates the role of replicability and the relationship between global and local indicators. It also points out the managerial implications for companies operating in the Italian public transit industry.     

Modelling the sustainability of mass tourism in island tourist economies

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and is a source of jobs across national and regional economies. Assessing the economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism development has become a major activity within the tourism and sustainable development communities. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the contribution of system dynamics for analysing policies that can not only promote sustainable tourism development, but also act as a warning signal to the industry about the potential negative consequences of uncontrolled growth of mass tourism, particularly in island tourist economies. Previous research in the tourism sector has been fragmented, when a holistic approach is needed in order to try to coerce some alignment in the views of the various stakeholders. The main research results illustrated in this paper are: a generic model of a tourism system informed by the (mainly) South European island tourist economies and a set of scenarios illustrating examples of policy analysis. The generic model and the modelling process developed in this research will have some transferability to other issues concerned with policymaking for sustainable development.     

Pareto Optimality in Nonconvex Economies with Infinite-dimensional Commodity Spaces

The paper contains applications of variational analysis to the study of Pareto optimality in nonconvex economies with infinite-dimensional commodity spaces satisfying the Asplund property. Our basic tool is a certain extremal principle that provides necessary conditions for set extremality and can be treated as a variational extension of the classical convex separation principle to systems of nonconvex sets. In this way we obtain new versions of the generalized second welfare theorem for nonconvex economies in terms of appropriate normal cones of variational analysis.     

Constructing Examples with 5 Equilibria for Symmetric 3 × 2 Ces / Les Pure Exchange Economies

This paper explores the existence of multiple equilibria for symmetric 3 individual, 2 good CES / LES pure exchange economies. Analytically, we show that there are no more than 5 equilibria in such economies. The number of equilibria varies from 5 to 3 then to 1. We generalize our analytical results of existence of 1, 3, 5 equilibria for a wide range of parametrizations. We also provide concrete examples of 1, 3, 5 equilibria with parameter zones specified.     

Uncertain lifetimes and convergence in a two-country Heckscher–Ohlin model

In a two-country infinite-horizon model, with two traded goods and two factors of production and no international borrowing and lending, there is no convergence of incomes if there is factor-price equalization. With factor-price equalization, the Euler equations of the two economies become identical. I show that in such a set-up if agents have a non-zero probability of death, then we do get convergence. In the steady state the two economies have identical capital–labor ratios and revert to autarky.