| Article ID: | iaor19942459 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Start Page Number: | 341 |
| End Page Number: | 354 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1992 |
| Journal: | Optimization |
| Authors: | Dempe S. |
| Keywords: | bilevel optimization |
A necessary and a sufficient condition for local optimal solutions of bilevel programming problems are developed using differential stability results for parametric optimization problems. Verification of these conditions reduces to the solution of some auxiliary combinatorial optimization problems.