Nikolai S. Kukushkin Photo by Elena Yu.Kukushkina

Nikolai Seraphimovich Kukushkin

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) 135-3023;
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 the convergence of simple improvement processes to equilibria is ensured.

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


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


Recent Journal Articles

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.
abstract (PDF)

Kukushkin N.S. Congestion games revisited.
International Journal of Game Theory, 2007, 36: 57–83.
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Kukushkin N.S. Shapley's "2 by 2" theorem for game forms.
Economics Bulletin, 2007, 3(33): 1–5.
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(PDF, a typo corrected)

Kukushkin N.S. Monotonicity-based conditions for the acyclicity of Cournot tatonnement.
Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2007, 413(4): 457–460.
(in Russian; an English translation in Doklady. Mathematics 2007, 75(2), 273–276)

Kukushkin N.S. Properties of the choice function generated by a binary relation on compact subsets.
Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2005, 405(3): 307–310.
(in Russian; an English translation in Doklady. Mathematics 2005, 72(3), 891–894)

Kukushkin N.S., Takahashi S., Yamamori T.
Improvement dynamics in games with strategic complementarities.
International Journal of Game Theory, 2005, 33: 229–238.
abstract (PDF)

Kukushkin N.S. Games with common intermediate objectives.
Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2004, 398(4): 449–452.
(in Russian; an English translation in Doklady. Mathematics 2004, 70(2), 735–738)
[Correction: Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2007, 412(5): 579]

Kukushkin N.S. Best response dynamics in finite games with additive aggregation.
Games and Economic Behavior, 2004, 48: 94–110.
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Kukushkin N.S. Path independence and Pareto dominance.
Economics Bulletin, 2004, 4(3): 1–3.
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Publications by the Dorodnicyn Computing Center, Moscow

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.
(PDF)

Kukushkin N.S. Maximizing a Binary Relation on Compact Subsets. 2005.
(PDF)

Kukushkin N.S. Acyclicity of Improvements in Games with Common Intermediate Objectives. 2004.
(PDF,
revised 2006)

Kukushkin N.S. Acyclicity of Monotonic Endomorphisms. 2003.
(PDF)

Kukushkin N.S. Unfocussed Nash Equilibria. 2002.
(PDF,
revised 2003)

Kukushkin N.S. Potentials for Binary Relations and Systems of Reactions. 2000.


Papers in Progress

Kukushkin N.S. On continuous ordinal potential games.
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Kukushkin N.S. Strategic complementarity and substitutability without transitive indifference.
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Kukushkin N.S. Another characterization of quasisupermodularity.
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Kukushkin N.S. On the existence of monotone selections.
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Kukushkin N.S. Acyclicity of improvements in finite game forms.
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