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Cournot-Walras Equilibrium as a Subgame Perfect Equilibrium

Working paper
Author/s: 
Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, and Sayantan Ghosal
Issue number: 
837
Publisher: 
University of Warwick
Year: 
2008
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In this paper, we investigate the problem of the strategic foundation of the Cournot-Walras equilibrium approach. To this end, we respecify µa la Cournot-Walras the mixed version of a model of simultaneous, non-cooperative exchange, originally proposed by Lloyd S. Shapley. We show, through an example, that the set of the Cournot-Walras equilibrium allocations of this respecification does not coincide with the set of the Cournot-Nash equilibrium allocations of the mixed version of the original Shapley's model. As the nonequivalence, in a one-stage setting, can be explained by the intrinsic two-stage nature of the Cournot-Walras equilibrium concept, we are led to consider a further reformulation of the Shapley's model as a two-stage game, where the atoms move in the first stage and the atomless sector moves in the second stage. Our main result shows that the set of the Cournot-Walras equilibrium allocations coincides with a specific set of subgame perfect equilibrium allocations of this two-stage game, which we call the set of the Pseudo-Markov perfect equilibrium allocations.
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Social Choice [2]

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[1] http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/workingpapers/2008/twerp_837.pdf [2] http://coalitiontheory.net/research-areas/social-choice