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Teaching Materials (slides)
Lattice: algebraic structure of sublattice and Birkhoff's representation theorem
Submodular function and increasing differences: preserving operations on domain and co-domain
Quasi-supermodular and single crossing: characterization of the monotone optimal solutions
Lovasz extension: Choquet perspective for finite and infinite games
Owen (multilinear) extension and Lyapunov function approach for approximation design and analysis
Parametric optimization: monotone comparative statics
Cooperative games: submodular games and core
Non-cooperative games: Tarski's and Zhou’s lattice fixed-point theorem and their applications to existence of Nash equilibrium