Topics in Mathematical Economics and Game Theory

Topics in Mathematical Economics and Game Theory
Author: Robert J. Aumann
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821805251

Since the publication of "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" by von Neumann and Morgenstern, the concept of games has played an increasing role in economics. It also plays a role of growing importance in other sciences, including biology, political science, and psychology. Many scientists have made seminal advances and continue to be leaders in the field, including Harsanyi, Shapley, Shubik, and Selten. Professor Robert Aumann, in addition to his important contributions to game theory and economics, made a number of significant contributions to mathematics. This volume provides a collection of essays in mathematical economics and game theory, including cutting-edge research on noncooperative game theory and its foundations, bargaining theory, and general equilibrium theory. Also included is a reprint of Aumann's classic paper, "Acceptable Points in General Cooperative n-Person Games" and of the oft-cited, yet hard to find, paper by Maschler, "The Worth of a Cooperative Enterprise to Each Member". This book illustrates the wide range of applications of mathematics to economics, game theory, and social choice. The volume is dedicated to Professor Robert J. Aumann, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, for his contributions in mathematics and social sciences.

The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium

The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium
Author: Andreu Mas-Colell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1985
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521388702

This book brings together the author's pioneering work, written over the last twenty years, on the use of differential methods in general equilibrium theory.

Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications

Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications
Author: R.J. Aumann
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 824
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780444894274

This is the second of three volumes surveying the state of the art in Game Theory and its applications to many and varied fields, in particular to economics. The chapters in the present volume are contributed by outstanding authorities, and provide comprehensive coverage and precise statements of the main results in each area. The applications include empirical evidence. The following topics are covered: communication and correlated equilibria, coalitional games and coalition structures, utility and subjective probability, common knowledge, bargaining, zero-sum games, differential games, and applications of game theory to signalling, moral hazard, search, evolutionary biology, international relations, voting procedures, social choice, public economics, politics, and cost allocation. This handbook will be of interest to scholars in economics, political science, psychology, mathematics and biology. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes

Advanced Lectures in Quantitative Economics

Advanced Lectures in Quantitative Economics
Author: Frederick van Der Ploeg
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 148327036X

Advanced Lectures in Quantitative Economics summarizes some of the efforts of a second-phase program for first-rate candidates with a Master's degree in economics who wish to continue with a doctoral degree in quantitative economics. This book is organized into three main topics—macroeconomics, microeconomics, and econometrics. This text specifically discusses the Neo-Keynesian macroeconomics in an open economy, international coordination of monetary policies under alternative exchange-rate regimes, and prospects for global trade imbalances. The post-war developments in labor economics, introduction to overlapping generation models, and measurement of expectations and direct tests of the REH are also elaborated. This monograph likewise covers the dynamic econometric modeling of decisions under uncertainty and fundamental bordered matrix of linear estimation. This publication is a good reference for students and specialists interested in quantitative economics.

Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being

Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1993-07-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521457224

Constituting the most advanced and comprehensive treatment of one of the cardinal issues in social theory, a diverse group of social scientists address the problems, principles and practices involved in comparing the well-being of different individuals.

Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson
Author: Prue Kerr
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415270854

The Foundations of Economic Policy

The Foundations of Economic Policy
Author: Nicola Acocella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1998-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521586382

Recent developments in public economics have largely been in the direction of reaffirming the limits of the market and of establishing new ones. The possible existence of fundamental non-convexities, imperfect and asymmetric information, incentive compatibility, imperfect competition, strategic complementarity, and scale economies led to the conclusion that a large set of market failures exist; such situations also imply government failure. Acocella, considers this complicated picture and provides a discussion of the different approaches to establishing social 'rankings' of the possible situations and the underlying principles. The arguments for and against different institutions are then analysed at a micro and macroeconomic level. The market and the government are recognised as imperfect, and thus complementary, institutions. Specific policy targets and instruments are considered in the areas of micro and macro-economic policy. Special attention is devoted to questions of policy management in an open economy. Finally, problems of domestic and international policy co-ordination are considered.

Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory

Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory
Author: George R. Feiwel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 985
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349086339

This and its companion volume, "The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment", are about Joan Robinson, her impact on modern economics, her challenges and critiques and the advances made in the science and art of economics.