Essential properties of Lp,q spaces (the amalgams) and the implicit function theorem for equilibrium analysis in continuous time

Mertens, Jean-François;Rubinchik, Anna
(2014) Journal of Mathematical Economics — Vol. 50, n° 1, p. 187-196 (2014)

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  • Mertens, Jean-FrançoisUCLouvain
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  • Rubinchik, AnnaUniversity of Haifa
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Abstract
To extend the analysis of continuous-time general-equilibrium macro models we study 2 parameter variants Lp,q of the Lebesgue spaces, thus gaining separate control on the asymptotic behaviour (p) and the local behaviour (q): they behave w.r.t. p like the spaces ℓp and w.r.t. q like the spaces Lq on a probability space. Such spaces might naturally contain equilibrium variables (paths) as well as time-dependent policies of a macro model. Convolution behaves very well on those spaces, which can be used as a basis for the classical “comparative statics” (see e.g. Mertens and Rubinchik (2011)). Finally, we generalise the classical implicit function theorem (ift) for a family of Banach spaces, with the resulting implicit function having derivatives that are locally Lipschitz to very strong operator norms.
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Mertens, J.-F., & Rubinchik, A. (2014). Essential properties of Lp,q spaces (the amalgams) and the implicit function theorem for equilibrium analysis in continuous time. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 50(1), 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2013.06.002 (Original work published 2014)