A note on continuously decomposed evolving exchange economies |
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Authors: | Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economics, Technical University of Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany |
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Abstract: | It is routine to demonstrate in the exchange economy framework that small changes of individual preferences and endowments always result in small changes of the derived excess demand functions as one should expect. Though being as desirable for reasons of the consistency of the whole approach, however, a precise proof of the converse direction so far is still open to question. The present paper shows that it is actually true. We use a decomposition method for aggregate excess demand functions developed by Mas-Colell which is derived from the well-known decomposition method developed by Sonnenschein and perfected by Debreu and Mantel. Our result fills in a notorious gap in the line of economic justification usually given for this decomposition, or disaggregation, method in that comparative static analysis would be restricted if the decomposition of excess demand functions would not be continuous. |
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Keywords: | Continuous decomposition Aggregate excess demand |
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