Peter P. Wakker

Welcome to my homepage.
My research: decision making and uncertainty, mathematically and empirically.

Affiliation:
- Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (My full address)
Annotated bibliography (on decision and uncertainty; updated March 16:
- MS-Word file of 2026
- pdf file of 2026
- bibLaTeX (biber) file of 2023
Publications:
- Papers published/in press
- Working papers
- Youtube channel with recorded lectures
- Online course "Risk and Ambiguity". For master students economics and adjacent fields (psychology, mathematics, health, business, finance). Contains lectures of independent interest: survey of modern ambiguity theories, rationality of Allais paradox, Ellsberg paradox, Rabin paradox, and others.
- Online course "Behavioral Economics". For master students economics and adjacent fields (psychology, mathematics, health, business, finance). Contains many topics of independent interest: ordinal revolution in economics, time inconsistency, Fehr-Schmidt inequality aversion, Arrow voting paradox, (alternatives to) prospect theory, emotions in game theory, etc.
Recent achievements:
- 8^th ranked Dutch economist in 2025
- 9^th ranked Dutch economist in 2023 by H-index.
- Top 2% of World's most influential scientists (over all disciplines); 161^th most infuential economist; 20155^th most influential researcher over all disciplines; see Stanford University list by Ioannidis, Boyack, & Baas (2021)
- Köbberling & Wakker (2005 JET) is among the 50 most influential papers published in Journal of Economic Theory, selected by Shell, Borgers, & Pavan (2020).
Miscellaneous:
Last updated:
16 March 2026