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2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Competitive Equilibria for Non-quasilinear Bidders in Combinatorial Auctions
verfasst von : Rad Niazadeh, Christopher A. Wilkens
Erschienen in: Web and Internet Economics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
quasilinearity is a ubiquitous and questionable assumption in the standard study of Walrasian equilibria. Quasilinearity implies that a buyer’s value for goods purchased in a Walrasian equilibrium is always additive with goods purchased with unspent money. It is a particularly suspect assumption in combinatorial auctions, where buyers’ complex preferences over goods would naturally extend beyond the items obtained in the Walrasian equilibrium.
We study Walrasian equilibria in combinatorial auctions when quasilinearity is not assumed. We show that existence can be reduced to an Arrow-Debreu style market with one divisible good and many indivisible goods, and that a “fractional” Walrasian equilibrium always exists. We also show that standard integral Walrasian equilibria are related to integral solutions of an induced configuration LP associated with a fractional Walrasian equilibrium, generalizing known results for both quasilinear and non-quasilnear settings.