Details about Peter P. Wakker

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Workplace:	Econometrisch Instituut (Econometric Institute), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen (Erasmus School of Economics), Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2019

1. Trust as a decision under ambiguity
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (21)
   See also Journal Article in Experimental Economics (2019)

2016

2. The Rich Domain of Ambiguity Explored
   VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in Management Science (2018)

2014

3. BEWARE OF BLACK SWANS AND DO NOT IGNORE WHITE ONES?
   Working Papers, HAL

2011

4. The Rich Domain of Uncertainty: Source Functions and Their Experimental Implementation
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (313)
   Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2011) View citations (292)
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2011)
5. The midweight method to measure attitudes towards risk and ambiguity
   Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management View citations (48)

2008

6. Risk, Uncertainty and Discrete Choice Models
   THEMA Working Papers, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise View citations (49)
   See also Journal Article in Marketing Letters (2008)

2007

7. Eliciting decision weights by adapting de Finetti's betting-odds method to prospect theory
   Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2007)
8. The effects of statistical information on risk ambiguity attitudes, and on rational insurance decisions
   Natural Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (23)

2002

9. Utility in Case-Based Decision Theory
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (28)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (2002)

2000

10. A Theory of the Gambling Effect
    Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research View citations (1)
    Also in Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management (2000)
11. Comonotonic Book-Making with Nonadditive Probabilities
    Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research
    Also in Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management (2000)
12. On the Intuition of Rank-Dependent Utility
    Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management View citations (1)
    Also in Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research (2000) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2001)

1998

13. An Axiomatization of Cumulative Prospect Theory for Decision Under Risk
    Papiers d'Economie Mathématique et Applications, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (1999)

1997

14. Choquet Integrals With Respect to Non-Monotonic Set Functions
    Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management View citations (1)
    Also in Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research (1997) View citations (3)
15. Probabilistic insurance
    Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research View citations (82)
    Also in Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management (1997) View citations (71)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (1997)

1996

16. A Single-Stage Approach to Anscombe and Aumann's Expected Utility
    Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research
    Also in Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management (1996)
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1997)
17. Revealed likelihood and knightian uncertainty
    Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management
    Also in Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research (1996)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (1998)

1994

18. A simple axiomatization of nonadditive expected utility
    Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1992)

1992

19. Independence of irrelevant alternatives and revealed group preferences
    Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1991)
20. The Axiomatic Basis of Anticipated Utility: A Clarification
    Discussion Paper, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research (1992) View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (1994)

1991

21. Generalizing Choquet Expected Utility by Weakening Savage's Sure-Thing Priciple
    Working Papers, California Irvine - School of Social Sciences

1983

22. Risk sensitivity, independence of irrelevant alternatives and continuity of bargaining solutions
    Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Mathematical Social Sciences (1983)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Transforming Ordinal Riskless Utility into Cardinal Risky Utility: A Comment on Chung, Glimcher, and Tymula (2019)
   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022, 14, (2), 561-65

2021

2. Belief hedges: Measuring ambiguity for all events and all models
   Journal of Economic Theory, 2021, 198, (C) View citations (1)
3. Concave/convex weighting and utility functions for risk: A new light on classical theorems
   Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2021, 100, (C), 429-435 View citations (4)
4. Prince: An improved method for measuring incentivized preferences
   Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2021, 62, (1), 1-28 View citations (19)

2020

5. A Personal Tribute to David Schmeidler’s Influence
   Revue économique, 2020, 71, (2), 387-390
6. Savage for dummies and experts
   Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 186, (C) View citations (6)
7. Social and strategic ambiguity versus betrayal aversion
   Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 123, (C), 272-287 View citations (8)

2019

8. A powerful tool for analyzing concave/convex utility and weighting functions
   Journal of Economic Theory, 2019, 181, (C), 143-159 View citations (5)
9. Resolving Rabin’s paradox
   Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2019, 59, (3), 239-260
10. Trust as a decision under ambiguity
    Experimental Economics, 2019, 22, (1), 51-75 View citations (21)
    See also Working Paper (2019)

2018

11. Making the Anscombe-Aumann approach to ambiguity suitable for descriptive applications
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2018, 56, (1), 83-116 View citations (14)
12. Measuring Ambiguity Attitudes for All (Natural) Events
    Econometrica, 2018, 86, (5), 1839-1858 View citations (45)
13. The Rich Domain of Ambiguity Explored
    Management Science, 2018, 64, (7), 3227-3240 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2016)

2017

14. Improving one’s choices by putting oneself in others’ shoes – An experimental analysis
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2017, 54, (1), 1-13 View citations (4)
15. Making Case-Based Decision Theory Directly Observable
    American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2017, 9, (1), 123-51 View citations (9)

2016

16. Ambiguity Attitudes in a Large Representative Sample
    Management Science, 2016, 62, (5), 1363-1380 View citations (85)
17. Group decision rules and group rationality under risk
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52, (2), 99-116 View citations (12)
18. Measuring Discounting without Measuring Utility
    American Economic Review, 2016, 106, (6), 1476-94 View citations (35)
19. Nash was a first to axiomatize expected utility
    Theory and Decision, 2016, 81, (3), 309-312 View citations (4)

2015

20. Discounted Utility and Present Value—A Close Relation
    Operations Research, 2015, 63, (6), 1420-1430 View citations (3)
21. MF Calculator: A Web-Based Application for Analyzing Similarity
    Journal of Statistical Software, 2015, 065, (c02)
22. Regret Theory: A Bold Alternative to the Alternatives
    Economic Journal, 2015, (583), 493-532 View citations (42)

2014

23. An experimental test of prospect theory for predicting choice under ambiguity
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 48, (1), 1-17 View citations (28)
24. Average Utility Maximization: A Preference Foundation
    Operations Research, 2014, 62, (1), 207-218 View citations (6)
25. Beware of black swans: Taking stock of the description–experience gap in decision under uncertainty
    Marketing Letters, 2014, 25, (3), 269-280 View citations (10)
26. If nudge cannot be applied: a litmus test of the readers’ stance on paternalism
    Theory and Decision, 2014, 76, (3), 297-315 View citations (2)

2013

27. Expected utility without continuity: A comment on Delbaen et al. (2011)
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2013, 49, (1), 28-30

2012

28. A Direct Method for Measuring Discounting and QALYs More Easily and Reliably
    Medical Decision Making, 2012, 32, (4), 583-593 View citations (21)
29. Aggregating imprecise or conflicting beliefs: An experimental investigation using modern ambiguity theories
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2012, 44, (2), 115-147 View citations (31)
30. Random incentive systems in a dynamic choice experiment
    Experimental Economics, 2012, 15, (3), 418-443 View citations (61)
31. Relative concave utility for risk and ambiguity
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 75, (2), 481-489 View citations (17)

2011

32. Jaffray’s ideas on ambiguity
    Theory and Decision, 2011, 71, (1), 11-22 View citations (3)
33. Prospect theory for continuous distributions: A preference foundation
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011, 42, (3), 195-210 View citations (24)
34. The Rich Domain of Uncertainty: Source Functions and Their Experimental Implementation
    American Economic Review, 2011, 101, (2), 695-723 View citations (320)
    See also Working Paper (2011)

2010

35. Process fairness and dynamic consistency
    Economics Letters, 2010, 109, (3), 187-189 View citations (21)

2009

36. A Truth Serum for Non-Bayesians: Correcting Proper Scoring Rules for Risk Attitudes *
    Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, (4), 1461-1489 View citations (151)
37. Non-hyperbolic time inconsistency
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 66, (1), 27-38 View citations (69)

2008

38. Causes of ambiguity aversion: Known versus unknown preferences
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, 36, (3), 225-243 View citations (54)
39. Explaining the characteristics of the power (CRRA) utility family
    Health Economics, 2008, 17, (12), 1329-1344 View citations (133)
40. Lessons Learned by (from?) an Economist Working in Medical Decision Making
    Medical Decision Making, 2008, 28, (5), 690-698 View citations (19)
41. Risk, uncertainty and discrete choice models
    Marketing Letters, 2008, 19, (3), 269-285 View citations (49)
    See also Working Paper (2008)

2007

42. Eliciting decision weights by adapting de Finetti’s betting-odds method to prospect theory
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2007, 34, (3), 179-199 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2007)
43. Prospect-theory’s Diminishing Sensitivity Versus Economics’ Intrinsic Utility of Money: How the Introduction of the Euro can be Used to Disentangle the Two Empirically
    Theory and Decision, 2007, 63, (3), 205-231 View citations (36)
44. Reconciling introspective utility with revealed preference: Experimental arguments based on prospect theory
    Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 138, (1), 356-378 View citations (88)

2006

45. Learning in the Allais paradox
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2006, 33, (3), 155-164 View citations (25)

2005

46. An index of loss aversion
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2005, 122, (1), 119-131 View citations (240)
47. Decision-foundations for properties of nonadditive measures: general state spaces or general outcome spaces
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2005, 50, (1), 107-125 View citations (5)
48. The Likelihood Method for Decision under Uncertainty
    Theory and Decision, 2005, 58, (1), 3-76 View citations (17)

2004

49. A Simple Tool for Qualitatively Testing, Quantitatively Measuring, and Normatively Justifying Savage's Subjective Expected Utility
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2004, 28, (2), 135-145 View citations (9)
50. Anchor Levels as a New Tool for the Theory and Measurement of Multiattribute Utility
    Decision Analysis, 2004, 1, (4), 217-234 View citations (7)
51. Correcting Biases in Standard Gamble and Time Tradeoff Utilities
    Medical Decision Making, 2004, 24, (5), 511-517 View citations (27)
52. The Utility of Gambling Reconsidered
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2004, 29, (3), 241-259 View citations (54)

2002

53. A simple preference foundation of cumulative prospect theory with power utility
    European Economic Review, 2002, 46, (7), 1253-1271 View citations (34)
54. Dutch books: avoiding strategic and dynamic complications, and a comonotonic extension
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2002, 43, (2), 135-149 View citations (24)
55. Utility in Case-Based Decision Theory
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2002, 105, (2), 483-502 View citations (30)
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2001

56. Nonmonotonic Choquet integrals
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2001, 36, (1), 45-60 View citations (29)
57. On the Intuition of Rank-Dependent Utility
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2001, 23, (3), 281-98 View citations (91)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
58. Testing and Characterizing Properties of Nonadditive Measures through Violations of the Sure-Thing Principle
    Econometrica, 2001, 69, (4), 1039-59 View citations (129)

2000

59. Cumulative dominance and probabilistic sophistication
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2000, 40, (2), 191-196 View citations (11)
60. Uncertainty aversion: a discussion of critical issues in health economics
    Health Economics, 2000, 9, (3), 261-263 View citations (4)
61. Unstable Preferences
    Medical Decision Making, 2000, 20, (1), 62-71

1999

62. A unified derivation of classical subjective expected utility models through cardinal utility
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1999, 32, (1), 1-19 View citations (11)
63. An Axiomatization of Cumulative Prospect Theory for Decision under Risk
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1999, 18, (2), 137-45 View citations (55)
    See also Working Paper (1998)

1998

64. Dynamic Choice and NonExpected Utility
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1998, 17, (2), 87-119 View citations (98)
65. Patients' Utilities for Cancer Treatments
    Medical Decision Making, 1998, 18, (4), 391-399 View citations (11)
66. Revealed Likelihood and Knightian Uncertainty
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1998, 16, (3), 223-50 View citations (57)
    See also Working Paper (1996)

1997

67. A Single-Stage Approach to Anscombe and Aumann's Expected Utility
    Review of Economic Studies, 1997, 64, (3), 399-409 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper (1996)
68. Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997, 112, (2), 375-406 View citations (848)
69. Characterizing QALYs by Risk Neutrality
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1997, 15, (2), 107-14 View citations (75)
70. Probabilistic Insurance
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1997, 15, (1), 7-28 View citations (79)
    See also Working Paper (1997)

1996

71. A Criticism of Healthy-years Equivalents
    Medical Decision Making, 1996, 16, (3), 207-214 View citations (15)
72. A Test of Rank-Dependent Utility in the Context of Ambiguity
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1996, 13, (1), 19-35 View citations (8)
73. Cycle-preserving extension of demand functions to new commodities
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1996, 25, (3), 281-290 View citations (1)
74. HYEs: Rejoinder
    Medical Decision Making, 1996, 16, (3), 216-216
75. Multiattribute Utility Theory Without Expected Utility Foundations
    Operations Research, 1996, 44, (2), 313-326 View citations (23)
76. On solving intansitivities in repeated pairwise choices
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1996, 31, (1), 53-53
    Also in Mathematical Social Sciences, 1995, 29, (2), 83-101 (1995) View citations (3)
77. The Comonotonic Sure-Thing Principle
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1996, 12, (1), 5-27 View citations (38)
78. The sure-thing principle and the comonotonic sure-thing principle: An axiomatic analysis
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1996, 25, (2), 213-227 View citations (11)

1995

79. Confidence intervals for cost/effectiveness ratios
    Health Economics, 1995, 4, (5), 373-381 View citations (7)
80. Explaining Distortions in Utility Elicitation through the Rank-dependent Model for Risky Choices
    Medical Decision Making, 1995, 15, (2), 180-186 View citations (24)
81. Risk Attitudes and Decision Weights
    Econometrica, 1995, 63, (6), 1255-80 View citations (231)

1994

82. A General Result for Quantifying Beliefs
    Econometrica, 1994, 62, (3), 683-85 View citations (2)
83. Comonotonic Independence: The Critical Test between Classical and Rank-Dependent Utility Theories
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1994, 9, (3), 195-230 View citations (50)
84. The Axiomatic Basis of Anticipated Utility: A Clarification
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1994, 64, (2), 486-499 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper (1992)
85. WARP Does Not Imply SARP for More Than Two Commodities
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1994, 62, (1), 152-160 View citations (23)

1993

86. A Unifying Approach to Axiomatic Non-expected Utility Theories: Correction and Comment
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1993, 59, (1), 183-188 View citations (15)
87. Additive representations on rank-ordered sets: II. The topological approach
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1993, 22, (1), 1-26 View citations (49)
88. An Axiomatization of Cumulative Prospect Theory
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1993, 7, (2), 147-75 View citations (205)
89. Clarification of some mathematical misunderstandings about Savage's foundations of statistics, 1954
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1993, 25, (2), 199-202 View citations (3)
90. Counterexamples to Segal's Measure Representation Theorem
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1993, 6, (1), 91-98 View citations (6)
91. Decision Making with Belief Functions: Compatibility and Incompatibility with the Sure-Thing Principle
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1993, 7, (3), 255-71 View citations (19)
92. From local to global additive representation
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1993, 22, (6), 523-545 View citations (30)
93. Savage's Axioms Usually Imply Violation of Strict Stochastic Dominance
    Review of Economic Studies, 1993, 60, (2), 487-493 View citations (14)

1992

94. A Simple Axiomatization of Nonadditive Expected Utility
    Econometrica, 1992, 60, (6), 1255-72 View citations (106)
    See also Working Paper (1994)
95. Characterizing Stochastically Monotone Functions by Multiattribute Utility Theory
    Economic Theory, 1992, 2, (4), 565-66

1991

96. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and Revealed Group Preferences
    Econometrica, 1991, 59, (6), 1787-1801 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper (1992)

1990

97. Characterizing optimism and pessimism directly through comonotonicity
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1990, 52, (2), 453-463 View citations (47)

1989

98. Continuous subjective expected utility with non-additive probabilities
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1989, 18, (1), 1-27 View citations (50)

1988

99. Continuity of Preference Relations for Separable Topologies
    International Economic Review, 1988, 29, (1), 105-10 View citations (13)
100. Derived strengths of preference relations on coordinates
     Economics Letters, 1988, 28, (4), 301-306 View citations (7)

1987

101. Subjective probabilities for state dependent continuous utility
     Mathematical Social Sciences, 1987, 14, (3), 289-298 View citations (24)

1986

102. Convex functions on non-convex domains
     Economics Letters, 1986, 22, (2-3), 251-255 View citations (1)

1983

103. Risk sensitivity, independence of irrelevant alternatives and continuity of bargaining solutions
     Mathematical Social Sciences, 1983, 4, (3), 295-300 View citations (3)
     See also Working Paper (1983)

Books

2010

1. Prospect Theory
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (191)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2010) View citations (191)

Chapters

2013

1. The Data of Levy and Levy (2002) “Prospect Theory: Much Ado About Nothing?” Actually Support Prospect Theory
   Chapter 8 in HANDBOOK OF THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING Part I, 2013, pp 145-147