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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Yves Balasko
- Yves Balasko is a French economist working in England.
- He was born in Paris on August 9, 1945 to a Hungarian father and a French mother.
- After studying mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris he became interested in economics.
- He subsequently spent six years at Électricité de France where he was involved in the application of the theory of marginal cost pricing to electricity pricing.
- While at Électricité de France, he proved his first results on the structure of the equilibrium manifold in the theory of general equilibrium.
- After completing his dissertation on "L'équilibre économique du point de vue differentiel" (English: "The Economic equilibrium from the differential point of view"), he had positions at the Universities of Paris XII, Paris I, Geneva and York.
- In 2013, he held a visiting scholar position at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.
- Since 2014, he has returned to York University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1980.
- He is also a Vice President of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM). In mathematical economics, Balasko has worked on general equilibrium theory, the overlapping generations model and the theory of incomplete asset markets.
- In his research, Balasko uses topology.
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