The transfer paradox in welfare space

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of Mathematical Economics
Year: 2016
Volume: 62
Issue: C
Pages: 1-4

Authors (3)

Demuynck, Thomas (not in RePEc) Rock, Bram De (not in RePEc) Ginsburgh, Victor

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

The transfer paradox describes a situation in which a transfer of endowments between two agents results in a welfare decrease for the recipient and a welfare increase for the donor. It is known that in a two-agent regular exchange economy with an arbitrary number of goods, the transfer paradox occurs only if the price equilibrium is unstable. In this paper, we show that in the space of welfare weights, the set of stable equilibria and the set of no-transfer paradox equilibria coincide. As a corollary we also obtain that for two agents and an arbitrary number of goods, the index of an equilibrium in price space coincides with its index in welfare space.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:mateco:v:62:y:2016:i:c:p:1-4
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25