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Improved Algorithms for Computing Fisher's Market Clearing Prices

Authors: James B. Orlin

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10171, Equilibrium Computation (2010)

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We give the first strongly polynomial time algorithm for computing an equilibrium for the linear utilities case of Fisher's market model. We consider a problem with a set $B$ of buyers and a set $G$ of divisible goods. Each buyer $i$ starts with an initial integral allocation $e_i$ of money. The integral utility for buyer $i$ of good $j$ is $U_{ij}$. We first develop a weakly polynomial time algorithm that runs in $O(n^4 log U_{max} + n^3 e_{max})$ time, where $n = |B| + |G|$. We further modify the algorithm so that it runs in $O(n^4 log n)$ time. These algorithms improve upon the previous best running time of $O(n^8 log U_{max} + n^7 log e_{max})$, due to Devanur et al.

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James B. Orlin. Improved Algorithms for Computing Fisher's Market Clearing Prices. In Equilibrium Computation. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10171, pp. 1-19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{orlin:DagSemProc.10171.2,
  author =	{Orlin, James B.},
  title =	{{Improved Algorithms for Computing Fisher's Market Clearing Prices}},
  booktitle =	{Equilibrium Computation},
  pages =	{1--19},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10171},
  editor =	{Edith Elkind and Nimrod Megiddo and Peter Bro Miltersen and Vijay V. Vazirani and Bernahrd von Stengel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10171.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-26720},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10171.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Market equilibrium, Fisher, strongly polynomial}
}

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