A General Equilibrium Theorem for the Economy of Giving

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Authors
Publication date 07-11-2014
Number of pages 14
Publisher Amsterdam: Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
In [1] we presented a model for transactions when goods are given away in the expectation of a later settlement. In settings where people keep track of their social accounts we were able to redefine concepts like account balance, yield curve and the law of diminishing returns. In this paper we establish a general equilibrium theorem, conjectured in [1], by developing sufficient conditions for any instance of the standard model (or Gift Economy Model) to have a unique equilibrium. The convergence to that equilibrium is exponential and for each pair of entities P and Q the total sum of yields from all mutual transactions is equal to zero.
Document type Report
Note Version 1. Subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
Language English
Published at https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1929
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