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General equilibrium analysis provides a unified framework for understanding how multiple markets interact to determine prices, allocations and welfare outcomes in an economy composed of countless ...

This paper proposes a new mechanism for combinatorial assignment - for example, assigning schedules of courses to students - based on an approximation to competitive equilibrium from equal incomes ...

In the context of markets, equilibrium is when there's a balance between supply and demand, causing prices to stabilize. When there's an imbalance between supply and demand, prices tend to fluctuate ...