Welcome to Jon

 Burke’s Homepage

         This site concerns my role as a professor of

      economics in the Business Administration Division

   of Pepperdine University.

Contact

Office: Center for Communication and Business, CCB 345

E-mail: jon.burke@pepperdine.edu

Website: http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/jburke2

Education

· Ph.D., M.I.T., Economics, June 1985

· B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, U.C.L.A., Mathematics-Applied Science, June 1981

Awards

· Excellence in Teaching Award, Indiana University, 1999, 2000, and 2004

· Excellence in Teaching Award, Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics, University of Texas, 1997    

· Fellowship, M.I.T., 1981, 1982

Academic interests

General-Equilibrium Theory, Game Theory

Teaching interests

Managerial Economics (see BA 445 link above), Quantitative Analysis (BA 452), Game Theory (BA 592)

Selected works

· “Virtual Determinacy in Overlapping Generations Models”, Econometrica, Vol. 77, 235-247, 2009.

· “Virtual Determinacy among Overlapping Generations”, Proceedings for the 2002 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, 2002.

· “General Equilibrium When Economic Growth Exceeds Discounting”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 90, 141-162, 2000.

· “Robustness of Optimal Equilibrium among Overlapping Generations”, Economic Theory, Vol. 14, 311-330, 1999.

· “Equilibrium for Overlapping Generations in Continuous Time”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 70, 364-390, 1996.

· “Existence of a Pareto-optimal Equilibrium in Nearly-stationary Overlapping-generations Economies”, Economic Theory, Vol. 5, 247-261, 1995.

· “Robust Asset Prices With Bubbles”, Economics Letters, Vol. 50, 349-354, 1995.

· “A Benchmark for Comparative Dynamics and Determinacy in Overlapping-generations Economies”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 52, 268-303, 1990.

· “Arc-connectedness of the Set of Efficient Allocations in Overlapping-generations Economies”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 49, 179-188, 1989.

· “On the Existence of Price Equilibria in Dynamic Economies”, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 44, 281-300, 1988.

· “Inactive Transfer Policies and Efficiency in General Overlapping-Generations Economies”, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 16, 201-222, 1987.