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An exposition of Wald’s existence proof

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In the 74. Kolloquium of 19.3.1934 and in the 80. Kolloquium of 6.11.1934, both with the same title “Über die Produktionsgleichung der ökonomischen Wertlehre ” Wald analysed the solvability of the following system of equations:

$$ \left ( \textup{a} \right )p=f\left ( x \right ), x,p \ \epsilon\ \mathbb{P}^{n}$$
$$ \left ( \textup{b}\right)\ r=Ax+u $$

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Hildenbrand, W. (1998). An exposition of Wald’s existence proof. In: Dierker, E., Sigmund, K. (eds) Karl Menger. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6470-9_5

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