Network economics is the study of a rich class of equilibrium problems that occur in the real world, from traffic management to supply chains and two-sided online marketplaces. In this paper we explore causal inference in network economics, building on the mathematical framework of variational inequalities, which is a generalization of classical optimization. Our framework can be viewed as a synthesis of the well-known variational inequality formalism with the broad principles of causal inference

翻译：网络经济学是对现实世界出现的从交通管理到供应链和双面在线市场等一系列丰富的均衡问题的研究。 在本文中,我们探讨了网络经济学中的因果推论,以变异不平等的数学框架为基础,这是传统优化的概括。 我们的框架可以被看作是众所周知的变异不平等形式主义与广义的因果推论原则的综合。