Allocation in Networks (The MIT Press)

Jens Leth Hougaard

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2018-11-06
  • 售價: $1,750
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,715
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 296
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262038641
  • ISBN-13: 9780262038645
  • 相關分類: 經濟學 Economy
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商品描述

A comprehensive overview of networks and economic design, presenting models and results drawn from economics, operations research, and computer science; with examples and exercises.

This book explores networks and economic design, focusing on the role played by allocation rules (revenue and cost-sharing schemes) in creating and sustaining efficient network solutions. It takes a normative approach, seeking economically efficient network solutions sustained by distributional fairness, and considers how different ways of allocating liability affect incentives for network usage and development. The text presents an up-to-date overview of models and results currently scattered over several strands of literature, drawing on economics, operations research, and computer science.

The book's analysis of allocation problems includes such classic models from combinatorial optimization as the minimum cost spanning tree and the traveling salesman problem. It examines the planner's ability to design mechanisms that will implement efficient network structures, both in large decentralized networks and when there is user-agent information asymmetry. Offering systematic theoretical analyses of various compelling allocation rules in cases of fixed network structures as well as discussions of network design problems, the book covers such topics as tree-structured distribution systems, routing games, organizational hierarchies, the “price of anarchy,” mechanism design, and efficient implementation. Appropriate as a reference for practitioners in network regulation and the network industry or as a text for graduate students, the book offers numerous illustrative examples and end-of-chapter exercises that highlight the concepts and methods presented.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書提供了對網絡和經濟設計的全面概述,介紹了從經濟學、運籌學和計算機科學中提取的模型和結果,並提供了例子和練習。

本書探討了網絡和經濟設計,重點在於分配規則(收入和成本分擔方案)在創建和維持高效網絡解決方案中所扮演的角色。它採取了一種規範性的方法,尋求在分配公平的基礎上實現經濟高效的網絡解決方案,並考慮了不同的責任分配方式對網絡使用和發展的激勵作用。本書提供了一個最新的模型和結果的綜述,這些模型和結果目前散落在經濟學、運籌學和計算機科學的多個文獻中。

本書對分配問題的分析包括組合優化中的經典模型,如最小成本生成樹和旅行推銷員問題。它檢查了規劃者設計機制以實現高效網絡結構的能力,無論是在大型分散式網絡中還是在存在用戶-代理人信息不對稱的情況下。本書系統地理論分析了各種引人注目的分配規則在固定網絡結構情況下的問題,並討論了網絡設計問題,包括樹狀分配系統、路由遊戲、組織層級、"無序的代價"、機制設計和高效實施等主題。

本書適合作為網絡監管和網絡行業從業人員的參考書,也適合作為研究生的教材,提供了許多富有說明性的例子和章末練習,以突出所介紹的概念和方法。