Optimal Transport Methods in Economics /

Optimal Transport Methods in Economics / / Alfred Galichon.

Optimal Transport Methods in Economics is the first textbook on the subject written especially for students and researchers in economics. Optimal transport theory is used widely to solve problems in mathematics and some areas of the sciences, but it can also be used to understand a range of problems...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Galichon, Alfred,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 2 halftones. 5 line illus. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Monge-Kantorovich Theory
  • 3. The Discrete Optimal Assignment Problem
  • 4. One-Dimensional Case
  • 5. Power Diagrams
  • 6. Quadratic Surplus
  • 7. More General Surplus
  • 8. Transportation on Networks
  • 9. Some Applications
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Solutions to the Exercises
  • Appendix B. Linear Programming
  • Appendix C. Quantiles and Copulas
  • Appendix D. Basics of Convex Analysis
  • Appendix E. McFadden's Generalized Extreme Value Theory
  • References
  • Index

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