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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455019403321

Autore

Topkis Donald M. <1942->

Titolo

Supermodularity and complementarity [[electronic resource] /] / Donald M. Topkis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1998

ISBN

1-283-00147-0

9786613001474

1-4008-2253-X

1-4008-1367-0

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Frontiers of economic research

Disciplina

658.4/033

Soggetti

Decision making - Mathematical models

Noncooperative games (Mathematics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Lattices, Supermodular Functions, and -- Chapter 3. Optimal Decision Models -- Chapter 4. Noncooperative Games -- Chapter 5. Cooperative Games -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The economics literature is replete with examples of monotone comparative statics; that is, scenarios where optimal decisions or equilibria in a parameterized collection of models vary monotonically with the parameter. Most of these examples are manifestations of complementarity, with a common explicit or implicit theoretical basis in properties of a super-modular function on a lattice. Supermodular functions yield a characterization for complementarity and extend the notion of complementarity to a general setting that is a natural mathematical context for studying complementarity and monotone comparative statics. Concepts and results related to supermodularity and monotone comparative statics constitute a new and important formal step in the long line of economics literature on complementarity. 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.