Contact Info

• Email: wjshafer@illinois.edu

Professor Emeritus of Economics

Research Interests

Economic Theory and Mathematical Economics

PhD

Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1972

Selected Publications

• “Allocation of Aggregate and Individual Risks Through Futures and Insurance Markets,” with M. Magill, in W. Brock and M. Majumdar, eds., Equilibrium and Dynamics, Macmillan, 1992.
• “Incomplete Markets,” with M. Magill, in Handbook of Mathematical Economics, vol. 4, North-Holland, 1991.
• “Characterization of Generically Complete Real Asset Structures,” with M. Magill, Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 19 (1990), 167-194.