Walrasian Dynamics in Multi-Unit Markets

Authors: Simina Brânzei, Aris Filos-Ratsikas1812-1819

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Research Type Experimental We prove that the mechanism converges from any starting profile when we have two buyers. Theorem 8 For n = 2 buyers, the best response dynamic of the ALL-OR-NOTHING mechanism converges to a Nash equilibrium from any initial strategy profile. We present the convergence results for values n = 25 and m = 20 and for two different choices of budgets, either drawn from [1, 50] or from [1, 120], but the mechanism actually always converges to a pure Nash equilibrium from any initial profile, for any choice of n and m that we have considered. We conclude with the following conjecture. Conjecture 1 The best response dynamic of ALL-OR-NOTHING converges to a Nash equilibrium for any initial strategy profile, for any number of buyers.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Simina Brˆanzei Purdue University Aris Filos-Ratsikas Ecole Polytechnique F ed erale de Lausanne
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