Department of Mathematics
Erik J. Balder
Function
Professor of Mathematical Economics and Decision Theory (emeritus)
Scientific Functions:
Associate Editorships:
Academic Editorship:
- British Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, Sciencedomain International
Former Associate Editorships:
- Economic Theory (Springer Verlag, New York)
- International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
- Mathematics of Operations Research (The Institute of Management Sciences)
- Set-Valued Analysis (Kluwer, Dordrecht)
- Statistics and Decisions (Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich)
Visiting Professorships Abroad:
- CEREMADE (Centre de Recherche de Mathématiques de la Décision), Université Paris IX Dauphine
- Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Perugia
- Department of Economics and Finance, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (multiple)
- Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (multiple)
- Department of Probability and Statistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing
1984:
- A general approach to lower semicontinuity and lower closure in optimal control theory Appeared in SIAM J. Control Optim. 22:4 (1984).
- A general denseness result for relaxed control theory Appeared in Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. Vol. 30 (1984).
1989:
- On Prohorov's theorem for transition probabilities. Appeared in Travaux du Sé&minaire d'Analyse Convexe Montpellier 19 (1989), 9.1-9.11.
1995:
- Lectures on Young measures. Appeared as Cahiers du CEREMADE No. 9517 (1995), Université Paris IX Dauphine.
1998-2002:
- New Fundamentals of Young measures (Haifa, 1998) Appeared in "Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control", Chapman and Hall Research Notes in Mathematics, No. 411 (2000).
- Lectures on Young measure theory and its
applications in economics (Grado, 1997) Appeared in Rend. Ist. Mat. Trieste Vol. 31 (2000).
- 2001 paper: On ws-convergence of product measures Appeared in Math. Oper. Res. Vol. 26 (2001).
- A unifying note on Fatou's lemma in several dimensions (Math. Oper. Res. 9:2 1984)
- New sequential compactness results for spaces of scalarly integrable functions (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 151 1990)
- (with Christian Hess) Fatou's lemma for multifunctions with unbounded values (Math. Oper. Res. 20:1 1995)
- (with Christian Hess) Two generalizations of
Komlos' theorem with lower closure-type applications (J. Conv. Anal. 3:1 1996)
- (with Anna Rita Sambucini) A note on strong convergence for Pettis integrable functions (Vietnam J. Math 31:3 2003)
- (with Anna Rita Sambucini) On weak compactness and lower closure results for Pettis integrable (multi)functions (Bull. Polish Acad. Sci. 52:1 2004)
- (with Anna Rita Sambucini) Fatou's lemma for multifunctions
with unbounded values in a dual space (J. Conv. Anal. 2005)
- A unifying approach to existence of Nash equilibria (Int. J. Game Th. 1995)
- A unifying pair of Cournot-Nash equilibrium existence results (J. Econ. Th. 2002)
- Comments on purification in continuum games (Int. J. Game Th. 2008)
- An equilibrium closure result for discontinuous games (Econ. Th. 2011) and a correction to two proofs
- An existence result for optimal growth problems (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 95, 1983)
- Incompatibility of the usual conditions for equilibrium existence in
continuum economies without ordered preferences (J. Econ. Theory 2000)
- More on equilibria in competitive markets with
externalities and a continuum of agents (J. Math. Econom. 2008)
- (with N.C. Yannelis) Bayesian-Walrasian equilibria: beyond the rational expectations equilibrium (ET 2009)
- Exact and useful optimization methods for microeconomics (in: Springer Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 655 (2012), pp. 21-38
- Convex Analysis for Optimization (national LNMB course), Fall '12
- Exact and useful optimization methods for microeconomics (in: Springer Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 655 (2012), pp. 21-38)
- Slides of a lecture on "Exact and useful optimization methods for microeconomics"
- Comments on chapters 20-21 in "Introduction to Mathematical Economics" (2008) by E.T. Dowling
- Comments on some chapters in "Mathematics for Economics" by M. Hoy et al.
- Corrections to section 2.2 of Feichtinger-Hartl
- Polar cones in finance (Dutch)
- Slides: polar cones in finance (Dutch)
- The brachistochrone problem made elementary
Mailing address:
- Prof. dr. ir. E.J. Balder
- Mathematical Institute
- Universiteit Utrecht
- PO Box 80 010
- 3508 TA UTRECHT
- The Netherlands
Visiting address:
- Mathematics Building
- Room 600
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Budapestlaan 6
- Utrecht
- The Netherlands
Email:
<E.J.Balder@uu.nl>
Telefax: +31-30-2518394
E.J. Balder
2012-2013:
- Convex Analysis for Optimization (national LNMB course), Fall '12
- Workshop Stochastic Dynamics in Economics and Finance (HIM, Bonn), May-August '13
- Speltheorie (WISB272), najaar '12
- Microeconomie (WISB271), voorjaar '13
2011-2012:
- course WISB372 (Optimization, Mathematics Department) and ECRMMAT (Research Master, Utrecht School
of Economics)
- Microeconomie (WISB271, voorjaar '12)
- Maat en Integratie (WISB312, voorjaar '12)
2010-2011:
- Convex Analysis for Optimization (national LNMB course, Fall '10)
- Mathematics (both master course for USE and bachelor course WISB372 for
math students)
- Microeconomie (WISB271, voorjaar '11)
- Maat en Integratie (WISB312, voorjaar '11)
2009-2010:
- Infinitesimaalrekening C (WISB234, najaar '09)
- Micro-economie (WISB271, voorjaar '10)
- Maat en Integratie (WISB312, voorjaar '10)
2008-2009:
- Convex Analysis for Optimization (national LNMB course)
- Optimization
2007-2008:
- Investeringstheorie
- Optimization
- Microeconomie
2006-2007:
- Microeconomie
- Optimization
- Convex Analysis for Optimization (national LNMB course)
2005-2006:
- Kaleidoscoop 1
- Optimization
- Investeringstheorie
<E.J.Balder@uu.nl> 3 December, 2008