Pareto-optimal Nash equilibria are competitive in a repeated economy

Mordecai Kurz*, Sergiu Hart

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Abstract

Consider a finite exchange economy first as a static, 1 period, economy and then as a repeated economy over T periods when the utility of each agent is the mean utility over T. A family of strategic games is defined via a set of six general properties the most distinct of which is the ability of agents to move commodities forward in time. Now consider Pareto optimal allocations in the T period economy which are also Nash equilibria in this family of strategic games. We prove that as T becomes large this set converges to the set of competitive utility allocations in the one period economy. The key idea is that a repetition of the economy when agents can move commodities forward in the time acts as a convexification of the set of individually feasible outcomes for player i holding all other strategies fixed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)320-346
Number of pages27
JournalJournal of Economic Theory
Volume28
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1982
Externally publishedYes

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