Article ID: | iaor2005621 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 122 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 387 |
End Page Number: | 403 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2004 |
Journal: | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications |
Authors: | Raciti F. |
Keywords: | distribution |
We consider a spatial price equilibrium problem in which the consumers take their decisions according to the transportation cost and transportation time necessary for obtaining a given commodity. In particular, each consumer market can give a different weight to each component of a generalized cost, and we suppose that this weight can depend on time. Thus, we are faced with a time-dependent equilibrium problem which we cast within the framework of variational inequalities. We give existence results and, by using the example of a linear operator, we propose also a discretization procedure for equilibrium problems which can be modeled by the same type of variational inequality.