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The purpose of this paper is to show that equilibria in an economy with increasing returns to scale technologies are computable.
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Kamiya, K. Computation of equilibria in an economy with increasing returns to scale technologies. Mathematical Programming 49, 253–261 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01588790
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