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We present the first analysis of Fisher markets with buyers that have budget-additive utility functions. Budget-additive utilities are elementary concave functions with numerous applications in online adword markets and revenue optimization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Xiaohui Bei , Jugal Garg , Martin Hoefer , Kurt Mehlhorn

We prove that the problem of computing an Arrow-Debreu market equilibrium is PPAD-complete even when all traders use additively separable, piecewise-linear and concave utility functions. In fact, our proof shows that this market-equilibrium…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-04-07 Xi Chen , Decheng Dai , Ye Du , Shang-Hua Teng

We study the equilibrium computation problem in the Fisher market model with constrained piecewise linear concave (PLC) utilities. This general class captures many well-studied special cases, including markets with PLC utilities, markets…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jugal Garg , Yixin Tao , László A. Végh

In this paper, we show that if every consumer in an economy has a quasi-linear utility function, then the normalized equilibrium price is unique, and is locally stable with respect to the t\^atonnement process. Our study can be seen as that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-22 Yuhki Hosoya

We study a general robust utility maximization problem in a discrete-time frictionless market. The investor is assumed to have a possibly infinite, random, nonconcave, and nondecreasing utility function defined on the whole real line. She…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-14 Laurence Carassus , Massinissa Ferhoune

We investigate expected utility maximization problems from the terminal liquidation value in continuous time in markets with transaction costs and one fixed consistent price system, where a non-concave utility function is defined on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Lingqi Gu , Yiqing Lin

This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) discrete-time financial market model with finite time horizon. In contrast to the standard setting, a possibly non-concave utility…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-04 Laurence Carassus , Miklos Rasonyi

We study decentralized markets for goods whose utility perishes in time, with compute as a primary motivation. Recent advances in reproducible and verifiable execution allow jobs to pause, verify, and resume across heterogeneous hardware,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-21 Chengqi Zang , Gabriel P. Andrade , Oğuzhan Ersoy

Matching markets are of particular interest in computer science and economics literature as they are often used to model real-world phenomena where we aim to equitably distribute a limited amount of resources to multiple agents and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Andrew Yang , Bruce Changlong Xu , Ivan Villa-Renteria

In this paper, we bring consumer theory to bear in the analysis of Fisher markets whose buyers have arbitrary continuous, concave, homogeneous (CCH) utility functions representing locally non-satiated preferences. The main tools we use are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Denizalp Goktas , Enrique Areyan Viqueira , Amy Greenwald

We show an auction-based algorithm to compute market equilibrium prices in a production model, where consumers purchase items under separable nonlinear utility concave functions which satisfy W.G.S(Weak Gross Substitutes); producers produce…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Junghwan Shin , Sanjiv Kapoor

For incomplete preference relations that are represented by multiple priors and/or multiple -- possibly multivariate -- utility functions, we define a certainty equivalent as well as the utility buy and sell prices and indifference price…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Birgit Rudloff , Firdevs Ulus

In mathematical economics, the used functions are, in general, considered to be quasiconcave. Moreover, they are, in many cases, separable of nature. It is known that a local maximum of a quasiconcave function is not, in general, a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Mohammed Berdi , Mohammed Amine Abouchouar , Abdelhak Hassouni

Market equilibria of matching markets offer an intuitive and fair solution for matching problems without money with agents who have preferences over the items. Such a matching market can be viewed as a variation of Fisher market, albeit…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Saeed Alaei , Pooya Jalaly , Eva Tardos

In markets with budget-constrained buyers, competitive equilibria need not be efficient in the utilitarian sense, or maximise the seller's revenue. We consider a setting with multiple divisible goods. Competitive equilibrium outcomes, and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-04-09 Simon Finster , Paul W. Goldberg , Edwin Lock

We introduce the notion of non-monotone utilities, which covers a wide variety of utility functions in economic theory. We then prove that it is PPAD-hard to compute an approximate Arrow-Debreu market equilibrium in markets with linear and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-11-22 Xi Chen , Dimitris Paparas , Mihalis Yannakakis

It is a common belief that computing a market equilibrium in Fisher's spending model is easier than computing a market equilibrium in Arrow-Debreu's exchange model. This belief is built on the fact that we have more algorithmic success in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-24 Xi Chen , Shang-Hua Teng

According to the fundamental theorems of welfare economics, any competitive equilibrium is Pareto efficient. Unfortunately, competitive equilibrium prices only exist under strong assumptions such as perfectly divisible goods and convex…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Mete Şeref Ahunbay , Martin Bichler , Johannes Knörr

We study the problem of computing approximate market equilibria in Fisher markets with separable piecewise-linear concave (SPLC) utility functions. In this setting, the problem was only known to be PPAD-complete for inverse-polynomial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Alexandros Hollender , Themistoklis Melissourgos

The paper develops a decentralized resource allocation mechanism for allocating divisible goods with capacity constraints to non-price-taking agents with general concave utilities. The proposed mechanism is always budget balanced,…

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