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In this paper we study efficient algorithms for computing equilibrium price in the Fisher model for a class of nonlinear concave utility functions, the logarithmic utility functions. We derive a duality relation between buyers and sellers under such utility functions, and use it to design a polynomial time algorithm for calculating equilibrium price, for the special case when either the number of sellers or the number of buyers is bounded by a constant.
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Chen, N., Deng, X., Sun, X., Yao, A.CC. (2004). Fisher Equilibrium Price with a Class of Concave Utility Functions. In: Albers, S., Radzik, T. (eds) Algorithms – ESA 2004. ESA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3221. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30140-0_17
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