Nikolai Seraphimovich Kukushkin

Nikolai S. Kukushkin Photo by Elena Yu. Kukushkina
Department of Mathematical Modelling of Economic Systems at the
Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Leading Researcher

Phone: +7-495-420-5707, +7-499-135-1209; Fax: +7-499-135-6159

Snail mail:
Russian Academy of Sciences, Dorodnicyn Computing Center,
40, Vavilova, Moscow 119333 Russia

E-mail: ququns at inbox dot ru

Principal Publications

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Current Research Interests

Natural classes of strategic games where simple improvement processes lead to equilibria.

Infinitary extensions of the notion of an acyclic binary relation.
Conditions for and implications of such generalized versions of acyclicity.

Similarities and dissimilarities between topological and order structures in decision problems and strategic games.


Jump to: Papers in Progress; Publications by the Dorodnicyn Computing Center


Recent Journal Articles

Kukushkin N.S. Increasing selections from increasing multifunctions.
Order, accepted in 2012.
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Kukushkin N.S. Monotone comparative statics: changes in preferences versus changes in the feasible set.
Economic Theory, 2013, 52: 1039-1060.
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Kukushkin N.S. On the existence of optima in complete chains and lattices.
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2012, 154: 759–767.
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Kukushkin N.S. Cournot tatonnement and dominance solvability in finite games.
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2012, 160: 948–958.
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Kukushkin N.S. Nash equilibrium in compact-continuous games with a potential.
International Journal of Game Theory, 2011, 40: 387–392.
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Kukushkin N.S. Acyclicity of improvements in finite game forms.
International Journal of Game Theory, 2011, 40: 147–177.
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Kukushkin N.S. Properties of the choice function generated by a binary relation on convex subsets.
Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2010, 432(4): 461–464.
(in Russian; an English translation in Doklady. Mathematics 2010, 81(3), 487–489 doi)

Kukushkin N.S. On the monotonicity of optimal choice in a parameter.
Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2009, 425(5): 605–609.
(in Russian; an English translation in Doklady Mathematics 2009, 79(2), 296–300 doi)

Kukushkin N.S. Maximizing an interval order on compact subsets of its domain.
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2008, 56: 195–206.
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Kukushkin N.S. On the existence of maximal elements: An impossibility theorem.
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2008, 156: 1988–1993.
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Kukushkin N.S. Potential games with NM utilities.
Economics Bulletin, 2008, 3(17): 1–7.
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Kukushkin N.S., Litan C.M., Marhuenda F.
On the generic finiteness of equilibrium outcome distributions in bimatrix game forms.
Journal of Economic Theory, 2008, 139: 392–395.
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Publications by the Dorodnicyn Computing Center, Moscow

Kukushkin N.S. Maximizing a preference relation on complete chains and lattices. 2013.
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Kukushkin N.S. Improvement Paths in Strategic Games: A Topological Approach. 2010.
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Kukushkin N.S. Maximizing a Binary Relation on Convex Subsets of Its Domain. 2009.
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Kukushkin N.S. Monotonicity Conditions, Monotone Selections, and Equilibria. 2008.
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Kukushkin N.S. Aggregation and Acyclicity in Strategic Games. 2007.
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Kukushkin N.S. Acyclicity and Aggregation in Strategic Games. 2006.
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Kukushkin N.S. Maximizing a Binary Relation on Compact Subsets. 2005.
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Kukushkin N.S. Acyclicity of Improvements in Games with Common Intermediate Objectives. 2004.
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revised 2006)

Kukushkin N.S. Acyclicity of Monotonic Endomorphisms. 2003.
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Kukushkin N.S. Unfocussed Nash Equilibria. 2002.
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revised 2003)


Papers in Progress

Kukushkin N.S. Novshek's trick as a polynomial algorithm.
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as of 22.05.2013

Kukushkin N.S. Approximate Nash equilibrium under the single crossing conditions.
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as of 7.03.2013

Kukushkin N.S. Cournot tatonnement and potentials.
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as of 9.12.2012


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