New York University
Department of Economics

 

Real Analysis with Economic Applications

Efe A. Ok

 

 

 

Book Description and Endorsements

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Chapter A: Preliminaries of Real Analysis

                         Addenda

                         Corrections: Typos

 

 

Chapter B: Countability

                         Addenda: Section B.4.3 (Rewritten)

                         Corrections: Typos

 

 

Chapter C: Metric Spaces

                         Addenda

                         Corrections: Typos

 

 

Chapter D: Continuity I

                         Addenda: The Ekeland Variational Principle / Proof of Brouwer’s Fixed Point Theorem / Motzkin’s Characterization of Convex Sets

                         Corrections: The Thoughtful Correction of Footnote 47 by Douglas Bridges / Typos

 

 

Chapter E: Continuity II

                         Addenda

                         Corrections

 

Chapter F: Linear Spaces 

                         Addenda

                         Corrections: Typos

 

Chapter G: Convexity

                         Addenda

                         Corrections: Typos

 

Chapter H: Economic Applications

                         Addenda

                         Corrections

 

Chapter I: Metric Linear Spaces

                       Addenda

                       Corrections: Typos

 

Chapter J: Normed Linear Spaces

                       Addenda

                       Corrections

 

Chapter K: Differential Calculus

                         Addenda: On the Existence of Approximate Stationary Points

                         Corrections: Typos

 

Hints to Selected Exercises                         

                         Addenda

                         Corrections

 

References

 

 

 

PROBABILITY THEORY

with ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS

 

Efe A. Ok

 

 

Preface (TBW)

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Chapter A: Preliminaries

 

 

Chapter B: Probability via Measue Theory

  Event Spaces / Probability Spaces / Constructing of Probability Spaces / The Sierpinski Class Lemma / Random Variables

 

Chapter C: Expectation via the Lebesgue Integral

  The Expectation Functional / Application: First-Order Stochastic Dominance / Almost Sure Convergence Theorems / The Lebesgue Integral / Elementary Inequalities /  

  Spaces of Integrable Random Variables / Probability Measures Induced by Expectations

 

Chapter D: Expectation via the Stieltjes Integral

  The Stieltjes Integral / The Expectation Functional as a Stieltjes Integral / Integration by Parts / Stochastic Dominance Theory /

   Economic Applications of Stochastic Dominance Theory

                      

Chapter E: Weak Convergence

  Weak Convergence of Probability Measures / Convergence of Random Variables / The Prokhorov Metrization / Properties of P(X) / An Alternative Metrization of

  P(X)

 

Chapter F:  Applications to Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

  The Expected Utility Theorem / Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

               

Chapter G: Stochastic Independence

  Independence of Classes of Events / Independence of Random Variables / Finite Products of Probability Spaces / Application: Nash Equilibrium in Mixed Strategies /  

  Infinite Products of Probability Spaces

 

Chapter H: A Primer on Probability Limit Theorems

  Preliminaries / Laws of Large Numbers / The Borel-Cantelli Lemmas / Convergence of Series of Random Variables / Kolmogorov’s 0-1 Law

 

Chapter I:  Conditional Expectation

  Conditional Expectation / Properties of Conditional Expectation

 

Chapter J:  Martingales

                        Martingales / Stopped Martingales / The Martingale Convergence Theorems / Applications

 

Appendix 1: Metric Spaces

 

Appendix 2: Linear and Normed Linear Spaces

 

Hints to Selected Exercises

 

References