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prof.dr. PP (Peter) Wakker

Biography

Peter Wakker is professor of decision under uncertainty at Behavioral Econ. of Erasmus School of Econ. (ESE). He works in behavioral economics and on risk/ambiguity. He has published in leading journals in economics, business, medicine, psychology, statistics, and mathematics. He was the best-publishing Dutch economist in 1994, 1998, 2003, and 2007, and collaborated with three Nobel-prize winners. He is the 157th most influential economist, and the 20463th most influential researcher over all disciplines (Ioannidis, Boyack, & Baas 2020 Table 6). Köbberling & Wakker (2005) is among the 50 most influential papers in Journal of Economic Theory (Shell, Borgers, & Pavan (2020). Wakker received a Medical Decision Making Career Achievement Award (2007), the Frank P. Ramsey Medal (2013; highest award of INFORMS Decision Analysis Society), and an Honorary doctorate in economics (University of St. Gallen 2016). He frequently gives advices on insurance in the media. He is a director of the research group Behavioral Economics.

Erasmus School of Economics

Associate professor | Behavioural Economics
Email
wakker@ese.eur.nl

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Work

  • Giulio Principi, Peter Wakker & Ruodu Wang (2025) - - Theoretical Economics - doi:
  • Aurelien Baillon, Han Bleichrodt, Chen Li & Peter Wakker (2025) - - Management Science - doi:
  • Chen Li & Peter Wakker (2024) - - Journal of Economic Theory, 216, 1-10 - doi: -
  • Peter Wakker (2023) - - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 107, 1-7 - doi: -
  • Peter P. Wakker (2023) - - Theory and Decision, 94 (2), 183-187 - doi: -
  • Peter P. Wakker (2022) - - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14 (2), 561-565 - doi: -
  • Aurélien Baillon, Han Bleichrodt, Chen Li & Peter P. Wakker (2021) - - Journal of Economic Theory, 198 - doi: -
  • Peter P. Wakker & Jingni Yang (2021) - - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 100, 429-435 - doi: -
  • Cathleen Johnson, Aurélien Baillon, Han Bleichrodt, Zhihua Li, Dennie van Dolder & Peter P. Wakker (2021) - - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 62 (1), 1-28 - doi: -
  • Peter Wakker (2020) - - Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 98 - doi:

  • Peter Wakker (11 December 2019) - “Start behavioural economics from a more liberal approach”

    • Martijn van den Assem

      Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Stake TV Game Show and Related Experiments
    • Zhihua Li

      Irrationality: What, Why and How
    • Gosse Alserda

      Choices in Pension Management
    • Xiao Yu

      Attitudes towards intertemporal correlation
    • Aysil Emirmahmutoglu

      Zooming in on ambiguity attitudes
    • Nishad Matawlie

      Through Mind and Behaviour to Financial Decisions

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