Characterising competitive equilibrium in terms of opportunity
在不假设个体偏好可揭示的前提下,用机会集刻画交换经济中的竞争均衡,提出强机会准则并证明其与市场出清单价体制的关系。
This paper analyses alternative profiles of opportunity sets for individuals in an exchange economy, without assuming that individuals' choices reveal coherent preferences. It introduces the concept of a 'market-clearing single-price regime', representing a profile of opportunity sets consistent with competitive equilibrium. It also proposes an opportunity-based normative criterion, the Strong Opportunity Criterion, which is analogous with the core in preference-based analysis. It shows that every market-clearing single-price regime satisfies the Strong Opportunity Criterion and that, in the limit as an economy is replicated, only such regimes have this property.