The Walrasian Distribution of Opportunity Sets:
An Axiomatic Characterization

Koichi Tadenuma
Yongsheng Xu

December 2010

Abstract

Economic systems generate various distributions of opportunity sets for individuals to choose consumption bundles. This paper presents an axiomatic analysis on distributions of opportunity sets. We introduce several reasonable properties of distributions of opportunity sets, and characterize the distributions of opportunity sets in the market economy by these properties.

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