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Title

Dynamic Optimization and Differential Games with Applications to Economics
Author

Yuji Itaya
Organization: Department of Information Management, School of Business
Conference

1999 International Mathematica Symposium
Description

In IMS'97 we showed several packages for: (1)solving simultaneous equations in real domain; (2)obtaining necessary conditions of constrained static optimization problems; (3)solving simultaneous nonlinear equations approximately; (4)determining signs of expressions; (5)solving differential equations approximately; (6)solving boundary-value problems approximately; and (7)solving dynamic optimization problems approximately. We also presented applications of these packages to urban economic models[1]. However, applications are limited in the package for solving dynamic optimization problems, since there exist many problems for which the package cannot be applied. In this paper, we revise and expand it so that it can be widely used. By further expanding the package above, we can solve differential games. We first show a solution of simple differential games with Mathematica and view the optimal trajectories. We then present packages for differential games by upgrading the dynamic optimization package, and show some applications to economic problems.
Subjects

*Applied Mathematics > Game Theory
*Business and Economics
Keywords

dynamic optimization, differential games, economics, constrained static optimization problems, urban economic models, economic problems
URL

http://www.internationalmathematicasymposium.org/IMS99/ims99papers/ims99papers.html