This paper characterizes pure-strategy and dominant-strategy Nash equilibrium in noncooperative games that may have discontinuous and/or non-quasi-concave payoffs. Conditions called diagonal transfer quasi-concavity and uniform transfer quasi-concavity are shown to be necessary and, with...

This paper generalizes a foundational quasi-variationalinequality by relaxing the (0-diagonal) concavity condition. The approach adopted in this paper is based on continuous selection-type arguments and hence it is quite different from the approach used in the literature. Thus it enables us to...

In this paper, we first generalize a foundational quasi-variational inequality (Theorem 3) which plays a key role throughout this paper by relaxing the compactness condition. Then we set up general forms of (generalized) quasi-variational inequalities and obtain a series of existence theorems...

In this paper we generalize Berge's Maximum Theorem to the case where the payoff (utility) functions and the feasible action correspondences are not lowersemicontinuous. The condition we introduced is called the Feasible Path Transfer Lower Semicontinuity (in short, FPT l.s.c.). By applying our...

This paper systematically studies the existence of maximal elements for unordered binary relation on compact or noncompact sets in a general topological space. This is done by developing a method, called transfer method, to derive various necessary and sufficient conditions that characterize the...

The theme of my dissertation is emerging capital markets behavior. I utilize three approaches: institutional, experimental and econometric to study the impact of reforms on capital allocation and stock market operation.In Chapter one, using a unique data set on Chinese provincial savings and...