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The aim of this paper is to study the Walrasian equilibrium problem when the data are time-dependent. In order to have a more realistic model, the excess demand function depends on the current price and on previous events of the market. Hence, a memory term is introduced; it describes the precedent states of the equilibrium. This model is reformulated as an evolutionary variational inequality in the Lebesgue space L 2([0,T],ℝ), and, thanks to this characterization, existence and qualitative results on equilibrium solution are given.
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Donato, M.B., Milasi, M. & Scrimali, L. Walrasian Equilibrium Problem with Memory Term. J Optim Theory Appl 151, 64–80 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-011-9862-y
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