Document Type
Discussion Paper
Publication Date
3-1-2008
CFDP Number
1643
CFDP Pages
29
Abstract
I use the theories of duality and optimal branchings to find a necessary and sufficient characterization of stochastically stable limit sets (SSLS) that helps improve the radius — modified coradius test of Ellison (2000). The improved shortcut I offer may permit the identification of SSLS when Ellison’s radius — modified coradius test fails to identify any, or may be able to pinpoint the true SSLS in cases where Ellison’s test identifies only a superset. I also demonstrate precisely why the radius — modified coradius test is not universally applicable and illuminate the connection between the modified coradius and the Lagrange multipliers of the optimal branching problem.
Recommended Citation
Rozen, Kareen, "A ‘Dual’-Improved Shortcut to the Long Run" (2008). Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers. 1944.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-series/1944