Research Catalog

Title

Supermodularity and complementarity / Donald M. Topkis.

Author

Topkis, Donald M., 1942-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

ix, 272 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• This monograph links complementarity to powerful concepts and results involving supermodular functions on lattices and focuses on analyses and issues related to monotone comparative statics. Don Topkis, who is known for his seminal contributions to this area, here presents a self-contained and up-to-date view of this field, including many new results, to scholars interested in economic theory and its applications as well as to those in related disciplines. The emphasis is on methodology.
• The book systematically develops a comprehensive, integrated theory pertaining to supermodularity, complementarity, and monotone comparative statics. It then applies that theory in the analysis of many diverse economic models formulated as decision problems, noncooperative games, and cooperative games.

Series Statement

Frontiers of economic research

Uniform Title

Frontiers of economic research.

Subjects

• Decision making > Mathematical models
• Noncooperative games (Mathematics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Lattices, Supermodular Functions, and Related Topics -- Ch. 3. Optimal Decision Models -- Ch. 4. Noncooperative Games -- Ch. 5. Cooperative Games.

ISBN

0691032440 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

97039545

OCLC

ocm37519171

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries