Academic Degrees

February 5, 1993 PhD, Department of Econometrics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. 

   PhD Dissertation: "Games and Graphs in Economic Situations”. Dissertation supervisor: Prof. Dr. S.H. Tijs 

January 26, 1989 Masters in Mathematics (Doctoraal), University of Nijmegen (now Radboud University), The Netherlands.

  Thesis: "Intuitionistic Stieltjes-integrals". Supervisors: Prof. Dr. A.C.M. van Rooij and Prof. Dr. W.H.M. Veldman. 

August 31, 1984 Bachelor's in Mathematics (Propaedeuse), University of Nijmegen (now Radboud University), The Netherlands

Appointments

2007-present: Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, USA (on leave during 2007) 

2024-present: Participating Faculty, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

2021-2023: Affiliated Faculty, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

2022: Visiting Affiliated Scholar of the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University, California, USA (April)

2012: Visiting Professor, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1, Paris, France (May)

2011: Visiting Professor, PREG-CECO Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (May)

2007: Professorial Fellow, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, Australia

2001-2007: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, USA (on leave during 2007)

2003: Fellow, Economic Theory Center, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, Australia (January-June)

1996-2001: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, USA

1994-1996: Member of the CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

1993-1996: Assistant Professor in Mathematical Economics, Department of Econometrics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

1992-1993: Scientific Advisor on Game Theory, PTT Research, The Netherlands

1991-1993: Teaching Assistant at the Department of Econometrics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

1988-1991: Teaching Assistant at the Department of Mathematics, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Book

Social and Economic Networks in Cooperative Game Theory (2001), co-authored by Marco Slikker and Anne van den Nouweland. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

Refereed Publications

Chan N and A van den Nouweland (2026) "Existence and nature of CvdN equilibrium." Economic Theory. Online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-026-01741-0.

Chan N and A van den Nouweland (2025) "CvdN equilibrium and share equilibrium in local public good economies." Journal of Public Economic Theory 27 (2): e70030. Online on Wiley Online Library https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.70030.

Chan N and A van den Nouweland (2025) "Local public good equilibrium." Games and Economic Behavior 149, 32-42. Online on Science Direct https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2024.11.007. 

Holdahl E and A van den Nouweland (2024) "Minimally Incomplete Sampling and Convergence of Adaptive Play in 2 × 2 Games." Economic Theory Bulletin 12, 1-14. Lead article. Online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40505-024-00262-0. (A correction was published on May 20, 2024, at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40505-024-00268-8 -- The correction is only to correct the publisher's switch of the affiliations of the two authors in the original publication of April 4, 2024.)

Bejan C, J C Gomez, and A van den Nouweland (2022) "On the importance of reduced games in axiomatizing core extensions." Social Choice and Welfare 59, 637-668. Online at Springerlink  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-022-01403-9.

Bloch F and A van den Nouweland (2021) "Myopic and Farsighted Stable Sets in 2-player Strategic-Form Games." Games and Economic Behavior 130, 663-683. Online on Science Direct https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2021.10.004.

Bejan C, J C Gomez, and A van den Nouweland (2021) “Feasibility-free axiomatization of the core and its non-empty extension.” Economics Letters 201, 109779. Online on Science Direct https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109779.

Bloch F and A van den Nouweland (2020) "Farsighted stability with heterogeneous expectations." Games and Economic Behavior 121, 32-54. Online on Science Direct DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2020.02.001. 

Van den Nouweland A and A Rusinowska (2020) "Bargaining foundation for ratio equilibrium in public good economies." Journal of Public Economic Theory 22 (2), 302-319. First published March 6, 2019. Online on Wiley Online Library DOI: 10.1111/jpet.12367. 

Van den Nouweland A (2019) "Demand for public good as a correspondence of cost shares." Economic Theory Bulletin 7 (1), 155-164. Online at Springerlink.com DOI: 10.1007/s40505-018-0150-y. Viewable online at https://rdcu.be/1djX. 

Van den Nouweland A and M Wooders (2017) "Existence of share equilibrium in symmetric local public good economies." Mathematical Social Sciences 89C, 50-60.  

Van den Nouweland A and M Slikker (2016) "The position value for partition function form network games." Journal of Public Economic Theory 18 (2), 226-247. Online on Wiley Online Library DOI: 10.1111/jpet.12138.  

Van den Nouweland A (2015) "Lindahl and equilibrium." In: Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare - Essays in honor of Nick Baigent, C. Binder, G. Codognato, M. Teschl, and Y. Xu (Eds.), Springer series Studies in Choice and Welfare, Springer, 335-362. 

Bloch F and A van den Nouweland (2014) "Expectation formation rules and the core of partition function games." Games and Economic Behavior 88, 339-353. Online on Science Direct DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2014.10.012.

Casas-Méndez B, L Carpente, I García-Jurado, and A van den Nouweland (2013) "Allocation rules for games with optimistic aspirations." Game Theory, vol. 2013, Article ID 540487. doi:10.1155/2013/540487. Online at hindawi.com/journals/gt/2013/540487.

Van den Nouweland A and M Slikker (2012) "An axiomatic characterization of the position value for network situations." Mathematical Social Sciences 64, 266-271. Online on Science Direct DOI:  10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2012.05.006.

Van den Nouweland A (2011) "Comments on: Cooperative Games and Cost Allocation Problems". TOP 19 (1), 29-32. Invited discussion for TOP (an official journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research). Online at Springerlink.com DOI: 10.1007/s11750-011-0204-x.

Van den Nouweland A and M Wooders (2011) "Share equilibrium in local public good economies." Journal of Mathematical Economics 47 (3), 376-381. Online on Science Direct DOI:  10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.12.008.

Voorneveld M, A van den Nouweland and R. McLean (2011) "Axiomatizations of the Euclidean compromise solution." International Journal of Game Theory 40 (3), 427-448. Online at Springerlink.com DOI: 10.1007/s00182-010-0240-z.

Carpente L, B Casas-Méndez, I García-Jurado and A van den Nouweland (2010) "The truncated core for games with upper bounds." International Journal of Game Theory 39 (4), 645-656. Online at Springerlink.com DOI: 10.1007/s00182-009-0205-2.

Carpente L, B Casas-Méndez, I García-Jurado and A van den Nouweland (2008) "Coalitional interval games for strategic games in which players cooperate." Theory and Decision 65 (3), 253-269.

Van den Nouweland A (2007) "Rock-paper-scissors; A new and elegant proof." Economics Bulletin 3 (43), 1-6.

Carpente L, B Casas-Méndez, I García-Jurado and A van den Nouweland (2006) "The Shapley valuation function for strategic games in which players cooperate." Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 63 (2), 435-442. 

Ellis C and A van den Nouweland (2006) "A mechanism for inducing cooperation in non-cooperative environments: theory and applications." Journal of Public Economic Theory 8 (1), 23-47.

Carpente L, B Casas-Méndez, I García-Jurado and A van den Nouweland (2005) "Values for strategic games in which players cooperate." International Journal of Game Theory 33, 397-419. 

Harbaugh W and A van den Nouweland (2005) "Demonstrating worker quality through strategic absenteeism." International Game Theory Review 7 (2), 189-209.

Jackson M and A van den Nouweland (2005) "Strongly stable networks." Games and Economic Behavior 51 (2), 420-444.

Van den Nouweland A (2005) "Models of network formation in cooperative games." In "Group Formation in Economics; Networks, Clubs, and Coalitions", G Demange and M Wooders (Eds), Cambridge University Press, 58-88.

Casas-Méndez B, I García-Jurado, A van den Nouweland, M Vazquez-Brage (2003) "An extension of the tau-value to games with coalition structures." European Journal of Operational Research 148, 494-513.

Slikker M, and A van den Nouweland (2003) "Network formation models with costs for establishing links." In "Networks and Groups; Models of Strategic Formation", B Dutta and M Jackson (Eds), Springer-Verlag, 233-262. This is a reprint of the paper with the same title that was published in 2000 in Review of Economic Design.

Dutta B, A van den Nouweland, and S Tijs (2003) "Link formation in cooperative situations." In "Networks and Groups; Models of Strategic Formation", B Dutta and M Jackson (Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2003, 221-232. This is a reprint of the paper with the same title that was published in 1998 in International Journal of Game Theory.

Slikker  M and A van den Nouweland (2002) "Network formation, costs, and potential games."

In "Chapters in Game Theory" (In honor of Stef Tijs), P Borm and H Peters (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 223-246.

Van den Nouweland A, S Tijs, and M Wooders (2002) "Axiomatization of ratio equilibria in public good economies."  Social Choice and Welfare 19, 627-636.

Slikker M, and A van den Nouweland (2001) "A one-stage model of link formation and payoff division." Games and Economic Behavior 34, 153-175.

Slikker M, and A van den Nouweland (2000) "Network formation models with costs for establishing links." Review of Economic Design 5, 333-362. Reprinted in "Networks and Groups; Models of Strategic Formation", B Dutta and M Jackson (Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2003, 233-262.

Slikker M, and A van den Nouweland (2000) "Communication situations with asymmetric players." Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 52, 39-56.

Slikker M, B Dutta, A van den Nouweland, and S Tijs (2000) "Potential maximizers and network formation." Mathematical Social Sciences 39, 55-70. 

Calvo E, J Lasaga, and A van den Nouweland (1999) "Values of games with probabilistic graphs." Mathematical Social Sciences 37, 79-95. 

Voorneveld M, and A van den Nouweland (1998) "A new axiomatization of the core of games with transferable utility." Economics Letters 60, 151-155. 

Dutta B, A van den Nouweland, and S Tijs (1998) "Link formation in cooperative situations." International Journal of Game Theory 27, 245-256. Reprinted in "Networks and Groups; Models of Strategic Formation", B Dutta and M Jackson (Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2003, 221-232.

Vázquez-Brage M, A van den Nouweland, and I García-Jurado (1997) "Owen's coalitional value and aircraft landing fees." Mathematical Social Sciences 34, 273-286.

Van den Nouweland A, B Peleg, and S Tijs (1996) "Axiomatic characterizations of the Walras correspondence for generalized economies." Journal of Mathematical Economics 25, 355-372.

Van den Nouweland A, P Borm, W van Golstein Brouwers, R Groot Bruinderink, and S Tijs (1996) "A game theoretic approach of problems in telecommunication." Management Science 42, 294-303.

Van den Nouweland A, J Potters, S Tijs, and J Zarzuelo (1995) "Cores and related solution concepts for multi-choice games." ZOR-Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 41, 289-311. 

Borm P, A van den Nouweland, and S Tijs (1994) "Cooperation and communication: a survey." In "Imperfections and Behavior in Economic Organizations", R Gilles and P Ruys (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 195-227.

Feltkamp V, A van den Nouweland, P Borm, S Tijs, and A Koster (1993) "Linear production with transport of products, resources and technology." ZOR-Methods and Models of Operations Research 38, 153-162.

Van den Nouweland A, M Maschler, and S Tijs (1993) "Monotonic games are spanning network games." International Journal of Game Theory 21, 419-427.

Van den Nouweland A, P Borm, G Owen, and S Tijs (1993) "Cost allocation and communication." Naval Research Logistics 40, 733-744.

Feltkamp V, and A van den Nouweland (1992) "Controlled communication networks." Cahiers du CERO 34, 199-210.

Van den Nouweland A, P Borm, and S Tijs (1992) "Allocation rules for hypergraph communication situations." International Journal of Game Theory 20, 255-268.

Van den Nouweland A, and P Borm (1991) "On the convexity of communication games". International Journal of Game Theory 19, 421-430.

Van den Nouweland A, M Krabbenborg, and J Potters (1990) "Flow-shops with a dominant machine." European Journal of Operational Research 62, 38-46.

Van den Nouweland A, H Aarts, and P Borm (1990) "Multi-commodity games." MethOR 63, 329-338.

Working Papers

Chan N and A van den Nouweland (2026) "Existence and nature of CvdN equilibrium." April 14, 2026, SSRN Working Paper 5392587. https://ssrn.com/abstract=5392587. 

Chan N and A van den Nouweland (2026) "Core Properties of Cost Sharing Approaches to Local Public Good Provision." August 21, 2026, SSRN Working Paper 6078410. https://ssrn.com/abstract=6078410.

Chan N and A van den Nouweland (2024) "Approximate preference revelation in a local public good economy." 

Bloch F and A van den Nouweland (2024) "Farsighted stability in incomplete information games."

Voorneveld M and A van den Nouweland (1998) "Cooperative multicriteria games with public and private criteria." CentER Discussion paper 9862, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Working paper 2001-11, Department of Economics, University of Oregon.

Presentations, Conferences, and Research Visits (2005-2026)

2026 Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications (Lisbon, Portugal). Invited seminar at Tulane University. 

2025 KWET Workshop (The University of Kansas), PET conference (Lisbon, Portugal).

2024 PET Conference (Lyon, France). Visitor of the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and the Paris School of Economics (France). Invited seminars at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Tilburg University (The Netherlands). 

2023 KWET Workshop (The University of Kansas). Visitor of the Paris School of Economics. 

2022 PET Conference (Marseille, France). Visiting Affiliated Scholar of the Economic Science Institute (ESI) at Chapman University. Visitor of the Paris School of Economics. Invited seminar at ESI. 

2021 SING (remote), SAET (remote).

2020 Everything lined up was cancelled due to COVID-19. 

2019 CTN Conference (University of Aix-Marseille, France), PET Conference (Strasbourg, France). Visitor of The Paris School of Economics. 

2018 Invited seminar at NYUAD. CTN Workshop (Maastricht, Netherlands), PET Conference (Hue, Vietnam), CEPET Workshop (Udine, Italy). Invited Keynote speaker at PET Hue. Visitor of The Paris School of Economics and NYUAD (AbuDhabi, UAE). 

2017 At CTN Workshop (Glasgow, Scotland), Workshop on Economic Design and Institutions (Brussels, Belgium), and APET/NYUAD Workshop (AbuDhabi, UAE). Visitor of the Department of Economics, The University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) and The Paris School of Economics.

2016 Invited seminar at UW Bothell School of Business. At NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference (Brown University, Providence RI), “Matching in Practice and Advances in Market Design” (Paris School of Economics, France), CEPET (Udine, Italy), GAMES (Maastricht, Netherlands). Visitor of Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), Université Paris 1 (Paris, France). 

2015 At “ASSA Meetings” (Boston), CTN Workshop (San Servolo, Venice, Italy), CEPET (Udine, Italy), and PET15 (Luxembourg). Guest lecture at Tulane University. Visitor of Concordia University, Montreal (Canada). 

2014 At conferences “ASSA Meetings” (Philadelphia), “Workshop on Coalitions and Networks” (Montreal, Canada), CEPET (Udine, Italy), PET14 (Seattle, WA), and “Workshop on Dynamic Networks” (Paris, France). Invited seminar and guest lecture at Tulane University. Invited seminar at Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (Paris, France). Visitor of Concordia University, Montreal (Canada) and Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), Université Paris 1 (Paris, France). 

2013 At conferences “ASSA Meetings” (San Diego), “Networks and Externalities” workshop (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge), CEPET (Udine, Italy), PET13 (Lisbon, Portugal), SWET (Paris, France), and SAET (Paris, France). Visitor of Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), Université Paris 1 (Paris, France). 

2012 At workshops “Models of Influence and Network Theory 3” (Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris) and CEPET (Udine, Italy). Invited seminar at Paris School of Economics. Visitor professor of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 (Paris, France) (presented an 8-hour short course).

2011 At workshops “Models of Influence and Network Theory” (Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris), CEPET (Udine, Italy), and the “2011 Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Meetings” (Vanderbilt University). Invited seminars at the University of Arizona, The University of Melbourne, The University of New South Wales (Sydney), Australian National University (Canberra), University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), Ecole Polytechnique (ParisTech; Palaiseau, France), Tilburg University (The Netherlands), the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), the University of La Coruna (Spain), and Vanderbilt University. Visitor of the School of Economics, Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) (presented a 6-hour short course). Visitor of the Ecole Polytechnique (ParisTech; Palaiseau, France) and Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (Paris, France). Visitor of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Visitor of the Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University (presented 2 guest lectures in the Networks Seminar). 

2010 At conferences “15th Coalition Theory Network Workshop” (Marseille, France), “PET10” (Istanbul, Turkey), “Conference on Theoretical Economics” (University of Kansas), and “Game Theory Seminar in Honor of Stef Tijs” (Tilburg University, the Netherlands). 

2009 Invited seminars at UC Davis, Tilburg University (The Netherlands), the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), and Tulane University. At conferences “PET09” (Galway, Ireland), “CEPET” workshop (Udine, Italy), and “SING5” (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). 

2008 Invited seminar at The University of La Coruna (Spain). Guest lecture at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). At conferences “NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference” (New Orleans, LA) and “SCW08” (Montreal, Canada). Visitor of the Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, and the Department of Computer Science, University of La Coruna (Spain). 

2007 Invited seminars at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and the University of Queensland (Australia). At conferences “25th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop” (Canberra, Australia), “CEPET” workshop (Udine, Italy), and “PET07” (Nashville). 

2006 At conferences “PET06” (Hanoi, Vietnam), “ESAM06” (Alice Springs, Australia), and workshop “Coalitions and Networks” (Montreal, Canada). Visitor of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and the Economic Theory Center in the Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne.

2005 Invited seminars at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA), and Tilburg University (The Netherlands). At conferences “PET 05” (Marseille, France) and “7th SAET Conference” (Vigo, Spain). Visitor of the Economic Theory Center in the Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), the Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, and the Mathematics Department, Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California). 

Research Interests

Game Theory 

Microeconomic Theory

Professional Service

Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory (2006-present) and of the Journal of Dynamics & Games (2018-present). 

Guest Editor of special issue of the Journal of Public Economic Theory in honor of Myrna Wooders' contributions to economics and game theory (2024-5).

Referee for American Economic Review, Annals of Operations Research, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Central European Journal of Operations Research, Econometrica, Economic Bulletin, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Games and Economic Behavior, International Game Theory Review, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Strategic Behavior and the Environment, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Social Sciences, Methods and Models of Operational Research, Operations Research Letters, Operations Research Spectrum, Optimization, PLOS ONE, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Studies, Social Networks, Southern Economic Journal, Telecommunication Systems, Theory and Decision, TOP (Spanish Journal of Operations Research), ZOR-Methods and Models of Operations Research.

Member of the “Panel of Experts” of the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) (Belgium) (Evaluation of funding proposals)

Grant proposal reviewer for the NSF and the City University of Hong Kong. 

Member of the program committee of the International Workshop on Cooperative Games (June 1996), the International Conference on Logic, Game Theory, and Social Choice (May 1999), PET 2006 Hanoi, PET 2007 Nashville, PET 2009 Galway, CEPET 2009 Udine, PET 2010 Istanbul, CEPET 2011 Udine, CEPET 2012 Udine, CEPET 2013 Udine, PET 2013 Lisbon, CEPET 2014 Udine, PET 2014 Seattle, CEPET 2014 Udine, PET 2015 Luxembourg, CEPET 2015 Udine, CEPET 2016 Udine, PET 2016 Rio de Janeiro, 2016 Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society (LACEA LAMES, Medellin, Columbia), CEPET 2017, PET 2017, CEPET 2018, CEPET 2019, PET 2019, CEPET 2020, PET 2020. 

Member of the scientific committee of the NSF Network Science in Economics Conference Series (2015-2019), CEPET 2022, PET 2022, CEPET 2023, PET 2023, CEPET 2024, PET 2024, CEPET 2025, PET 2025. 

Co-organizer of the National Workshop of the LNMB (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde; National Network for Decision Sciences) (May 1992).

Discussant at the workshop of the European Science Foundation on Local Public Goods, Politics, and Multijurisdictional Economies (July 2002), the 21st Australian Economic Theory Conference (February 2003), the Allied Social Science Associations Meetings (January 2004), the 25th Australasian Economic Theory Workshop (February 2007), and the PGPPE Session at PET 2010 (June 2010). 

Panelist at the 2nd Australian Workshop on Experimental Economics (August 2007).

Teaching Experience

Courses in Teaching Effectiveness taken: Didactic Days, January 16-17, 1996; Didactic Days, January 19-20, 1994; Course in Didactic, November 5-10, 1992.

1996-present Department of Economics, University of Oregon: Theories of Industrial Organization (EC 460/560), CORE Microeconomics II (EC 607), Game Theory (EC 607), Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (EC 311), Advanced Microeconomic Theory (EC 411/511), Games and Decisions (EC 427/527), and Mathematics for Economists (EC 408/508). Supervision of Research 401, Reading 405, and Reading 605. 

2021-present Clark Honors College, University of Oregon: Cooperative Game Theory: An investigation of fairness principles (HC 431H).

2003 and 2007, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne: Game Theory (4th year and Honors level). Microeconomic Theory (PhD level).

1991-1996 Department of Econometrics, Tilburg University: Teaching assistant for courses (at different levels) in Game Theory, Analysis, Algebra, and Public Sector Economics. Courses taught (at different levels) with full responsibility: Mathematical Economics, Industrial Organization, and Mathematics. Supervision of practical training of several students. 

1995 Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht: Courses taught (at graduate and undergraduate levels) with full responsibility: Introduction to Economics and Microeconomics.

1989-1991 Department of Mathematics, University of Nijmegen: Teaching assistant for courses (at different levels) in Stochastic, Logic, Statistics and Operations Research, and Mathematical Economics and Game Theory.