Leontief economies encode nonzero sum two-player games

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 659-667

  Codenotti, Bruno ^a   Saberi, Amin ^b   Varadarajan, Kasturi ^c   Ye, Yinyu ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEONTIEF EXCHANGE ECONOMIES; MARKET EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS; NASH EQUILIBRIA; QUASI-POLYNOMIAL TIMES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMICS; MARKETING; POLYNOMIALS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33244477459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1109557.1109629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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