Kim C. Border | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1952-06-27)June 27, 1952 |
| Died | November 19, 2020(2020-11-19) (aged 68)2 |
| Alma mater | 1 |
| Known for | Border's theorem |
| Children | 1 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Marcel Kessel Richter1 | |
Kim C. Border was an American behavioral economist and professor of economics at the California Institute of Technology.
Career
Border received a bachelor's degree in economics from Caltech in 1974. Shortly after completing his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Minnesota in 1979, he returned to Caltech as a faculty member, where he remained for over forty years.2
Border specialized in decision theory and auction design. In 1991, he proved a set of inequalities (now known as Border's theorem) that characterize the possible allocations for a single-item auction,3 a result that now plays a key role in the computational design of auctions.4 He also contributed several applications of Arrow's impossibility theorem to economic domains.5
Border was also known for his teaching in subjects of mathematical economics, and for his extensive in-depth lecture notes.6
Personal life
Border died on November 19, 2020, and is survived by his son.2
Selected publications
- Border, Kim (1985). Fixed Point Theorems with Applications to Economics and Game Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511625756. ISBN 9780511625756.
- Aliprantis, Charalambos; Border, Kim (2006). Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/3-540-29587-9. ISBN 9783662039625.
- Border, Kim C.; Sobel, Joel (1987). "Samurai Accountant: A Theory of Auditing and Plunder". The Review of Economic Studies. 54 (4): 525–540. doi:10.2307/2297481. JSTOR 2297481.
- Border, Kim C. (1991). "Implementation of Reduced Form Auctions: A Geometric Approach". Econometrica. 59 (4): 1178–1187. doi:10.2307/2938181. JSTOR 2938181.
References
References
- "Kim Christian Border". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- Clavin, Whitney (21 November 2020). "Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Kim Border (1952-2020)". Caltech. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- Border, Kim C. (1991). "Implementation of Reduced Form Auctions: A Geometric Approach". Econometrica. 59 (4): 1175–1187. doi:10.2307/2938181. ISSN 0012-9682. JSTOR 2938181. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- Nisan, Noam (15 October 2015). "On the Borders of Border's Theorem | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". simons.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- Le Breton, Michel; Weymark, John A. (1 January 2011). "Chapter Seventeen - Arrovian Social Choice Theory on Economic Domains". Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. 2. Elsevier: 191–299. doi:10.1016/S0169-7218(10)00017-1. hdl:1803/15728.
- "The Kim C. Border Repository". healy.econ.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-13.