Exchange markets

The exchange market is a basic model of an economy, where agents bring resources that they own to the market in order to exchange them for other goods that they need. There is a rich literature on the equilibrium properties of such markets starting with the work of Arrow and Debreu. In this note we survey recent results on proportional response dynamics in exchange markets with linear utilities and suggest several directions for future work.

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