The Econometric SocietyEdited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262
Econometrica: Jul, 1976, Volume 44, Issue 4
https://doi.org/0012-9682(197607)44:4<787:ATODE>2.0.CO;2-2
p. 787-791
Paul J. Madden
Ostroy and Starr [3] have recently shown how money (a good which may be traded although it satisfies no excess supply/demand) allows decentralized achievement of competitive equilibrium allocations via a round of bilateral trades. Following Jevons [1], monetary exchange is here defined as any trade which decreases the utility of any participant. The consequences of this alternative definition for the Ostroy/Starr thesis are investigated and generalized to cover the case where exchange takes place multilaterally (instead of just bilaterally).
