Fixed point theorems with applications to economics and game theory / Kim C. Border.

Author
Border, Kim C. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Description
viii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    One of the problems in economics that economists have devoted a considerable amount of attention in prevalent years has been to ensure consistency in the models they employ. Assuming markets to be generally in some state of equilibrium, it is asked under what circumstances such equilibrium is possible. The fundamental mathematical tools used to address this concern are fixed point theorems: the conditions under which sets of assumptions have a solution. This book gives the reader access to the mathematical techniques involved and goes on to apply fixed point theorems to proving the existence of equilibria for economics and for co-operative and noncooperative games. Special emphasis is given to economics and games in cases where the preferences of agents may not be transitive. The author presents topical proofs of old results in order to further clarify the results. He also proposes fresh results, notably in the last chapter, that refer to the core of a game without transitivity. This book will be useful as a text or reference work for mathematical economists and graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. [122]-126.
    Contents
    • Introduction: models and mathematics
    • Convexity
    • Simplexes
    • Sperner's lemma
    • The Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz lemma
    • Brouwer's fixed point theorem
    • Maximization of binary relations
    • Variational inequalities, price equilibrium, and complementarity
    • Some interconnections
    • What good is a completely labeled subsimplex
    • Continuity of correspondences
    • The maximum theorem
    • Approximation of correspondences
    • Selection theorems for correspondences
    • Fixed point theorems for correspondences
    • Sets with convex sections and a minimax theorem
    • The Fan-Browder theorem
    • Equilibrium of excess demand correspondences
    • Nash equilibrium of games and abstract economies
    • Walrasian equilibrium of an economy.
    ISBN
    • 0521388082
    • 9780521388085
    • 0521265649 ((U.S.))
    • 9780521265645 ((U.S.))
    • 9780511625756 ((ebook))
    • 0511625758
    LCCN
    84019925
    OCLC
    11133342
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