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Arbitrage equilibria in large games with many commodities

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Can identical goods sell at different prices in identical markets when people are perfectly mobile? We provide a formal account of strategic behaviour in large games with many commodities, and exhibit how it drives price dispersion at equilibrium. Interactions between agents are modelled using a Shapley–Shubik market game. We demonstrate the failure of the law of one price in this setup through a robust counterexample. The proposed model, and our findings, constitute an alternative and plausible explanation to some “anomalies” which routinely appear in a wide array of fields, ranging from banking, business economics, to international, and labour economics.

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  • Toraubally, Waseem A., 2019. "Arbitrage equilibria in large games with many commodities," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 24-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:179:y:2019:i:c:p:24-28
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.03.004
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    Keywords

    Oligopoly; Infinite-dimensional commodity space; Arbitrage; Strategic behaviour;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance

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