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Ivar Ekeland, Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics,

Department of Mathematics and Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Director, Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Sciences

Contact Information

Addresses

Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences 

1933 West Mall,  University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 1Z2

Phone Numbers

 (604) 822-9328

Email Address

ekeland at math.ubc.ca

VITAE [pdf]

publications 1970-2003

Books [pdf]

Scientific articles [pdf]

Other: [pdf]

publications since 2004

WORKING PAPERS

Ekeland, Ivar and Roger Guesnerie. ‘Factor price equalization and the geometry of global production”, September 2004 [pdf

Ekeland, Ivar. ‘Existence, uniqueness and efficiency of hedonic equlibrium in hedonic markets with multidimensional types”, May 2005 [pdf]

Martin Browning, Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Ivar Ekeland, "Local disaggregation of negative demand and excess demand functions" [pdf]

Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Ivar Ekeland, "The microeconomics of group behaviour: identification" [pdf]

ARTICLES

Ekeland, Ivar. 'Some applications of the Cartan-Kähler theorem to economic theory'. Erich Kähler: Mathematische Werke / Mathematical Works. 767 - 777 de Gruyter, book editors: Berndt, Rudolf and Oswald Riemenschneider. Berlin. 2003, [pdf]

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre, Ivar  Ekeland, Freddy  Kubler and Herakles Polemarchakis. ' Testable implications of general equilibrium theory: a differentiable approach'. Journal of Mathematical Economics. 40 .(2004) . (February ). pp. 105 - 119. [pdf]

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre and Ivar  Ekeland. 'Individual excess demands'. Journal of Mathematical Economics. 40. (February 2004). pp. 41 - 57. [pdf]

Ekeland, Ivar , James Heckman and Lars  Nesheim. 'Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models'. Journal of Political Economy. 112. (February 2004). pp. 60 - 119. [pdf]

Bouchard, Bruno, Ivar  Ekeland and Nizar Touzi. 'On the Malliavin approach to Monte-Carlo approximation of conditional expectations”, , 1 (2004), p.1-29'. Finance and Stochastics. VIII.1. (February 2004). pp. 1 - 29. [pdf]

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre  and Ivar  Ekeland. 'Applying exterior differential calculus to economics: a presentation and some new results'. Japan and the World Economy. 16 .3. (August 2004). pp. 363 - 385.[pdf]

Ekeland, Ivar . 'An optimal matching problem'. ESAIM-Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations, 11, pp. 57-71. . (January 2005). pp. 57 - 71. [pdf]

Ekeland, Ivar and Erik  Taflin. 'A theory of bond portfolios'. Annals of Applied Probability. (May 2005) [ps]

Ekeland, Ivar and Louis Nirenberg. 'Regularity in an unusual variational problem'. Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics. (Summer 2005). [pdf]

Ekeland, Ivar and Ngalla Djitte. 'An inverse problem in the economic theory of demand'., to appear, Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincare-Analyse non lineaire [pdf]

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre  and Ivar  Ekeland. 'Characterizing group behaviour'. to appear, Journal of Economic Theory. [pdf]

Carlier, Guillaume, and Ivar Ekeland "Equilibrium structure of an asymmetric bidimensional city", to appear, Nonlinear Analysis, TWA, [pdf]

Ekeland, Ivar. "A duality theory for non-convex functions of matrices" to appear, Ricerche di Matematica [pdf]

Ekeland, Ivar and Ali Lazrak, "Being serious about non-commitment", [pdf]

BOOKS

Cat in Numberland. 30 pages. Carus Publishing. 2006.

The best of all possible worlds. 178 pages. Chicago University Press. 2006.

Teaching

2003 Lectures on optimal transportation [pdf]

2005 Lectures on the term structure of interest rates [pdf]

 

 

Last Updated : March 12, 2006