Werner Hildenbrand

Werner Hildenbrand
1973 in Erlangen
Born	(1936-05-25)25 May 1936 Göttingen, Germany
Citizenship	German
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematician Economist
Institutions	University of Bonn
Alma mater	University of Heidelberg
Thesis	Über straffe Funktionale (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Klaus Krickeberg, Gottfried Köthe
Doctoral students	Thorsten Hens, Walter Trockel
Known for	Contributions to the general equilibrium theory
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Contributed to the Facts and Ideas in Microeconomic Theory

Werner Hildenbrand (born 25 May 1936 in Göttingen, Germany) is a German economist and mathematician. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, where he received his Diplom in mathematics, applied mathematics and physics in 1961. He continued his education at the University of Heidelberg and received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1964 and his habilitation in economics and mathematics in 1968.

From 1969 to 2001 he was a professor of economics at the University of Bonn. He has held various visiting positions at, among others, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Louvain. His research has focused on general equilibrium theory, and in particular on the existence and properties of the core of an economy.

Books

• Core and Equilibria of a Large Economy, Princeton University Press, 1974.
• Introduction to Equilibrium Analysis, with Alan Kirman, North-Holland, 1976.
• Equilibrium Analysis, with Alan Kirman, North-Holland, 1988.
• Market Demand: Theory and Empirical Evidence, Princeton University Press, 1994.

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