TY - JOUR ID - Michalak2014 LB - Michalak2014 AU - Michalak, Anna AU - Studniarski, Marcin TI - Necessary and sufficient conditions for a Pareto optimal allocation in a discontinuous Gale economic model ST - Necessary and sufficient conditions for a Pareto optimal allocation in a discontinuous Gale economic model JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2014 VL - 34 IS - 4 SP - 827 EP - 835 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2014.34.4.827 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2014.34.4.827 AB - In this paper we examine the concept of Pareto optimality in a simplified Gale economic model without assuming continuity of the utility functions. We apply some existing results on higher-order optimality conditions to get necessary and sufficient conditions for a locally Pareto optimal allocation. KW - Gale model KW - discontinuous functions KW - generalized directional derivatives KW - higher-order conditions KW - Pareto optimality SN - 1232-9274 ER -