Angel de la Fuente

Mathematical Methods and Models for Economists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year PhD course in mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained, rigorous treatment of most of the concepts and techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro and macroeconomics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 848
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1424g
• ISBN-13: 9780521585293
• ISBN-10: 0521585295
• Artikelnr.: 14993196

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Review of basic concepts; 2. Metric and normed spaces; 3. Vector spaces and linear mappings; 4. Differential calculus; Part II. Statics: 5. Static models and comparative statics; 6. Convex sets and concave functions; 7. Static Optimization; 8. Some applications to microeconomics; Part III. Dynamics: 9. Dynamical systems I: basic concepts and scalar systems; 10. Dynamical systems II: higher dimensions; 11. Dynamical systems III: some applications; 12. An introduction to dynamic optimization; 13. Some applications to dynamic optimization; Appendix; Indexes.

Rezensionen

'The textbook is highly recommended to graduate students of economics. Furthermore, it provides a useful mathematical reference for researchers in economics.' Roland Fahrion, Zentralblatt MATH