Market Equilibrium for Bundle Auctions and the Matching Core of Nonnegative TU Games

dc.creatorLahiri, Somdeb
dc.date2006-03-09
dc.date2006-04-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:05:48Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:05:48Z
dc.descriptionWe discuss bundle auctions within the framework of an integer allocation problem. We show that for multi-unit auctions, of which bundle auctions are a special case, market equilibrium and constrained market equilibrium are equivalent concepts. This equivalence, allows us to obtain a computable necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of constrained market equilibrium for bundle auctions. We use this result to obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of market equilibrium for multi-unit auctions. After obtaining the induced bundle auction of a nonnegative TU game, we show that the existence of market equilibrium implies the existence of a possibly different market equilibrium as well, which corresponds very naturally to an outcome in the matching core of the TU game. Consequently we show that the matching core of the nonnegative TU game is non-empty if and only if the induced market game has a market equilibrium.
dc.description17 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603032
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603032
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/109794
dc.subjectComputer Science and Game Theory
dc.titleMarket Equilibrium for Bundle Auctions and the Matching Core of Nonnegative TU Games
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