Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Journal / Book Title

Economics Bulletin

Abstract

Under certain conditions on the excess demand function, it is shown that the set of equilibrium prices coincides with the set of maximizers of a potential function. Therefore, monotone comparative statics techniques can be employed to study how equilibrium prices change when there are shocks to the parameters of the model. As a by-product of our analysis, it turns out that the set of equilibrium prices is a convex lattice.

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Published Citation

Ruscitti, Francesco and Dubey, Ram Sewak, Monotone Comparative Statics in General Equilibrium (January 6, 2016). Economics Bulletin (2016) Volume 36, Issue 1, pages 187-197, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2653388 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2653388

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