3 papers
econ.TH2026
No Welfare Ties Between Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibria
Moeen Nehzati
We show that distinct pure-strategy Nash equilibria typically have different utilitarian welfare values in sufficiently rich classes of games with open strategy sets. Here, t…
econ.EM2026
Inference From Random Restarts
Moeen Nehzati, Diego Cussen
Random-restart heuristics are widely used in nonconvex optimization and equilibrium computation: practitioners run a local algorithm from many initial conditions and interpret repe…
math.OC2025
Universal Representation of Generalized Convex Functions and their Gradients
Moeen Nehzati
A wide range of optimization problems can often be written in terms of generalized convex functions (GCFs). When this structure is present, it can convert certain nested bilevel ob…