A New Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for Computing Fisher Market Equilibria with Spending Constraint Utilities
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This thesis develops and analyzes an algorithm to compute equilibrium prices for a Fisher market in which the buyer utilities are given by spending constraint functions, utility functions originally defined by Devanur and Vazirani [5]. Vazirani gave a weakly polynomial time algorithm to compute the equilibrium prices [10]. More recently Végh gave a strongly polynomial algorithm [11]. Here we provide another strongly polynomial algorithm, which arguably is conceptually simpler, although the running time is not always better.
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