2009 50th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
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Abstract

We prove that the problem of computing an Arrow-Debreu market equilibrium is PPAD-complete even when all traders use additively separable, piecewise-linear and concave utility functions. In fact, our proof shows that this market-equilibrium problem does not have a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme, unless every problem in PPAD is solvable in polynomial time.
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