Subgame Consistent Economic Optimization

David W. K. Yeung is Distinguished Research Professor and Head of Business Administration at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and the Kantorovich Research Chair in Stochastic Differential Games and co-director of the Centre of Game Theory at Saint Petersburg State University. He is also Distinguished Honorary Professor of Qingdao University - an honor he received along with Nobel laureates John Nash, Reinhard Selten, and Robert Aumann. Yeung’s main areas of research are game theory, optimization, and stochastic processes. He serves as Managing Editor of International Game Theory Review, Guest Editor of Annals of Operations Research, Associate Editor of Dynamic Games and Applications, and Editorial Board Member of Mathematical Game Theory & Applications. Yeung has published extensively in world-renowned science journals, in particular, Automatica, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, International Game Theory Review, and Mathematical Biosciences.

• Preface.- Introduction.- 1 Dynamic Strategic Interactions in Economic System.- 2 Dynamic Economic Optimization: Group Optimality and Individual Rationality.- 3 Time Consistency and Optimal-Trajectory-Subgame Consistent Economic Optimization.- 4 Dynamically Stable Cost-saving Joint Venture.- 5 Collaborative Environmental Management.- 6 Dynamically Stable Dormant Firm Cartel.- 7 Subgame Consistent Economic Optimization Under Uncertainty.- 8 Cost-saving Joint Venture Under Uncertainty.- 9 Collaborative Environmental Management Under Uncertainty.- 10 Subgame Consistent Dormant Firm Cartel.- 11 Dynamic Consistency in Discrete-time Cooperative Games.- 12 Discrete-time Cooperative Games Under Uncertainty.- Technical Appendices.- References.- Index.

"The book is a comprehensive treatise on subgame consistent economic optimization. It is an important methodological contribution to the research on consistency and dynamic stability of cooperative strategies, developed originally by the authors. ... The book is well organized and clear; moreover, it provides an extensive reference list to the relevant economic differential game literature." (Bruno Viscolani, Mathematical Reviews, January, 2013)