Anne van den Nouweland

PLC 510; 541-346-1267; annev@uoregon.edu

Biographical Information

Anne van den Nouweland , Professor, joined the UO faculty in the Fall of 1996. She received a B.A. in Mathematics in 1984 and a Master's degree in Mathematics in 1989, both from the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands). She received a Ph.D. from the Department of Econometrics of Tilburg University (the Netherlands) in 1993 . Professor van den Nouweland's home page is located here .

Research Interests

Anne van den Nouweland has primary interests in the broad field of game theory, including cooperative theory, non-cooperative theory, and also applications of game theory in the social sciences. She has a series of theoretical papers on the formation of cooperation structures between self-interested agents. These papers attempt to provide a better understanding of the functioning and formation of social and economic networks. In her most recent work in this line of research she studies the tension between efficiency and stability of networks. In the area of applications of game theory, Anne has used game-theoretic models to study problems of profit division in telecommunications, to determine the power of political parties in voting situations, to find reasonable cost allocations for airports, and to study strategic absenteeism from the workplace. Anne has also done some work in mechanism design and multi-criteria optimization.

Teaching

Professor van den Nouweland teaches microeconomic theory and game theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as mathematics for economists.