Meanings
nountatonnement (plural tatonnements)
plural tatonnements
- economicsAn iterative auction process by which an exchange equilibrium is imagined to be achieved.
Alternatively, we may use a tatonnement algorithm guessing an initial sequence #92;#123;K#95;t#92;#125;#95;#123;t#61;0#125;ᵀ and updating it after each iteration i[.]
2024, Burkhard Heer, Alfred Maußner, Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling: Computational Methods and Applications, third edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 503
Origin
- Frenchtâtonnement“groping”
- Englishtatonnement
Borrowed from French tâtonnement (“groping”).
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