On the polynomial time computation of equilibria for certain exchange economies

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 72-81

  Codenotti, Bruno ^a,b   Pemmaraju, Sriram ^c   Varadarajan, Kasturi ^c  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONVEX SET; EXCHANGE ECONOMIES; FISHER MODEL; POLYNOMIAL-TIME ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 20744453971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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