A measure of social loss for production economies with externalities
采用合作博弈方法分析生产经济,定义考虑外部性的核心,并引入社会损失度量来刻画核心分配,对研究外部性和合作均衡的经济学者有参考价值。
Abstract In this paper we consider a production economy and adopt a cooperative approach to equilibrium analysis which allows each individual to cooperate with others and to form a coalition whose members have access to the available technologies. We investigate the behavior of the core defined with respect to preferences ( preferences-core ) and with respect to resources ( resources-core ). We introduce a measure of social loss with respect to the core of the production economy which characterizes the corresponding core allocations. Our definition of the core requires that coalitions proposing a deviation take into account the consequences that changes in production plans may have for the counter-coalitions ( considerate dominance ). Our characterization holds in the presence of consumption externalities and an optimistic or a pessimistic attitude of coalition agents with respect to the behavior of outsiders.