Equitable nature of core allocations in atomless economies

The purpose of this paper is to prove the equal treatment property for the *-core allocations of an atomless economy without any condition on the data of economy. This result prompts the same property for the core allocations. © Springer-Verlag 1998

Existence of the core in a heterogeneous divisible commodity exchange economy

We consider the exchange of a heterogeneous divisible commodity modeled as a measurable space. Under rational, continuous and convex preferences over characteristic measures a weak core is shown to exist. Further, a core exists if characteristic measures are mutually absolutely continuous. Applied to the land trading economy, the core existence results in Berliant (J Math Econ 14:53-56, 1985) and Dunz (Reg Sci Urban Econ 21:73-88, 1991) are obtained. © 2008 Springer-Verlag

Existence of efficient envy-free allocations of a heterogeneous divisible commodity with nonadditive utilities

This paper studies the existence of Pareto optimal, envy-free allocations of a heterogeneous, divisible commodity for a finite number of individuals. We model the commodity as a measurable space and make no convexity assumptions on the preferences of individuals. We show that if the utility function of each individual is uniformly continuous and strictly monotonic with respect to set inclusion, and if the partition matrix range of the utility functions is closed, a Pareto optimal envy-free partition exists. This result follows from the existence of Pareto optimal envy-free allocations in an extended version of the original allocation problem. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Theorems on the core of an economy with infinitely many commodities and consumers

It is known that the classical theorems of Grodal [Grodal, B., 1972. A second remark on the core of an atomless economy. Econometrica 40, 581-583] and Schmeidler [Schmeidler, D., 1972. A remark on the core of an atomless economy. Econometrica 40, 579-580] on the veto power of small coalitions in finite dimensional, atomless economies can be extended (with some minor modifications) to include the case of countably many commodities. This paper presents a further extension of these results to include the case of uncountably many commodities. We also extend Vind's [Vind, K., 1972. A third remark on the core of an atomless economy. Econometrica 40, 585-586] classical theorem on the veto power of big coalitions in finite dimensional, atomless economies to include the case of an arbitrary number of commodities. In another result, we show that in the coalitional economy defined by an atomless individualistic model, core-Walras equivalence holds even if the commodity space is non-separable. The above-mentioned results are also valid for a differential information economy with a finite state space. We also extend Kannai's [Kannai, Y., 1970. Continuity properties of the core of a market. Econometrica 38, 791-815] theorem on the continuity of the core of a finite dimensional, large economy to include the case of an arbitrary number of commodities. All of our results are applications of a lemma, that we prove here, about the set of aggregate alternatives available to a coalition. Throughout the paper, the commodity space is assumed to be an ordered Banach space which has an interior point in its positive cone. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

A note on the closedness of the convex hull and its applications

This paper answers the following question motivated by the problem of spannability of functions. When is the convex hull of an unbounded (closed) set closed? We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the closedness of the convex hull. Then we apply these results to the problem of spannability of functions playing an important role in mathematical economics and variational calculus. Resulting characterizations of spannability of functions imply previously known sufficiency conditions for spannability. © Heldermann Verlag