Advances in Economic Theory Fifth World

Klappentext These articles should be helpful to anyone with training in economics. Zusammenfassung This volume! with its focus on economic theory! contains papers delivered at the Fifth World Congress held in 1985. Designed to make material accessible to a general audience of economists! these articles should be helpful to anyone with training in economics! who wishes to review past ideas and tendencies in the subject Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Editor's preface; 1. Auction theory Paul R. Milgrom; 2. Game-theoretic analyses of trading processes Robert Wilson; 3. The theory of contracts Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom; 4. Battles for market share: incomplete information, aggressive strategic pricing and competitive dynamics John Roberts; 5. A sequential strategic theory of bargaining Ariel Rubinstein; 6. On the complexity of linear programming Nimrod Megiddo; 7. Laboratory experimentation in economics Alvin E. Roth; 8. Increasing returns and the theory of international trade Paul R. Krugman; 9. Strategic aspects of trade policy Avinash Dixit; 10. Equilibrium without an auctioneer Peter Diamond; 11. Arrow-Debreu programs as microfoundations of macroeconomics Robert M. Townsend.

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• Authors: Truman F. Bewley, Truman Fassett Bewley
• Assisted by: Truman F. Bewley (Editor), Truman Fassett Bewley (Editor), Andrew Chesher (Editor), Matthew Jackson (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521389259
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38925-9
• Series: Econometric Society Monographs
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous