数理経済学特論(II)
講師 市石 達郎
(1) 秋学期２単位・講義および演習
(2) Analytical theory of the firm with its game-theoretical foundations.
(3) The modern economy embodies two major resource allocation mechanisms： the market mechanism, sometimes called the price mecha-nism, and a mechanism instituted by an organi-zation of people called a firm. Study of the for-mer mechanism has been the central theme of the neoclassical paradigm, which may be viewed as a specific instance of the nonco-operative game theory. Study of the latter mechanism as formulated in this course ex-tends earlier works in the transaction cost the-ory and the economics of internal organization, and is based upon strategic cooperative game theory, in particular, cooperative extensions of the noncooperative game. This course dis-cusses some recent developments of economic analyses of the two mechanisms, as well as their game theoretical foundations.
The course is divided into four parts： The first part is preliminary, and presents some ele-ments of the traditional theory of the firm and the neoclassical theory of the market mecha-nism. The second part systematically develops the descriptive cooperative game theory. The third part constructs and studies a general equilibrium model which formulates simultane-ous operations of the market mechanism and the firm-specific nonmarket mechanism. The final part discusses the ongoing research in strategic cooperative game theory with asym-metric information. Parts IIIIare based on lectures, and part IVis based on students’ pres-entation of assigned papers.
(4) Text：
Tatsuro Ichiishi, The Cooperative Na-ture of the Firm, Cambridge, U.K.： Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Supplementary text (optional )：
Tatsuro Ichi-ishi, Game Theory for Economic Analysis, New York： Academic Press, 1983.
(5) Students are assigned to present several re-cent papers in class, published or unpublished. These papers will be distributed in class.
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