Kim Border Explained
| Kim C. Border |
| Birth Date: | 27 June 1952 |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Economics |
| Alma Mater: | [2] |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Marcel Kessel Richter |
| Children: | 1 |
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.
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.
Selected publications
- Book: Border, Kim . 1985 . Fixed Point Theorems with Applications to Economics and Game Theory . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 9780511625756 . 10.1017/CBO9780511625756.
- Book: Aliprantis . Charalambos . Border . Kim . 2006 . Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide . Springer-Verlag . 9783662039625 . 10.1007/3-540-29587-9.
- Border . Kim C. . Sobel . Joel . 1987 . Samurai Accountant: A Theory of Auditing and Plunder . The Review of Economic Studies . 54 . 4 . 525–540 . 10.2307/2297481 . 2297481.
- Border . Kim C. . 1991 . Implementation of Reduced Form Auctions: A Geometric Approach . Econometrica . 59 . 4 . 1178–1187 . 10.2307/2938181. 2938181 .
Notes and References
- Web site: Clavin . Whitney . Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Kim Border (1952-2020) . Caltech . 3 April 2021.
- Web site: Kim Christian Border . The Mathematics Genealogy Project . 3 April 2021.
- Border . Kim C. . Implementation of Reduced Form Auctions: A Geometric Approach . Econometrica . 1991 . 59 . 4 . 1175–1187 . 10.2307/2938181 . 2938181 . 3 April 2021 . 0012-9682.
- Web site: Nisan . Noam . On the Borders of Border's Theorem Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing . simons.berkeley.edu . 3 April 2021.
- Le Breton . Michel . Weymark . John A. . Chapter Seventeen - Arrovian Social Choice Theory on Economic Domains . Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare . 1 January 2011 . 2 . 191–299 . Elsevier . 10.1016/S0169-7218(10)00017-1 . 1803/15728 . en. free .
- Web site: The Kim C. Border Repository. 2021-07-13. healy.econ.ohio-state.edu.
