Optimal transportation and the falsifiability of incompletely specified economic models

Economic Theory

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 355-374

  Ekeland, Ivar ^a   Galichon, Alfred ^b   Henry, Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c Canada H3A 2T7   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incompletely specified models; Optimal transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749088448     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-008-0432-y     Document Type: Article

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