PETER J. HAMMOND
Professor

Ph.D. (Economics), B.A. (Mathematics), Cambridge University.

Research Interests: Economic Theory--in particular, public economics, general equilibrium and mathematical economics, social choice, game theory.

Current Research: Welfare economics with uncertainty and asymmetric information; foundations of rational choice; sequence economies; macroeconomics and games with a continuum of agents.

Representative Recent Publications: (1) “Reassessing the Diamond/Mirrlees Efficiency Theorem,” Incentives, Organization, and Public Economics: Papers in Honour of Sir James Mirrlees (Oxford University Press, 2000); (2) “Monte Carlo Simulation of Macroeconomic Risk with a Continuum of Agents: The Symmetric Case” (with Yeneng Sun) Economic Theory, 21 (2003), 743-766; (3) “Expected Utility in Non-Cooperative Game Theory,” in Handbook of Utility Theory, Vol. 2: Extensions (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004), 982-1063; (4) “Interpersonally Comparable Utility” (with Marc Fleurbaey) in Handbook of Utility Theory, Vol. 2: Extensions (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004), 1181-1285.

Teaching Interests: Mathematics for economists, welfare economics, decision and game theory, dynamic economics, general equilibrium, ethics in economic policy.

Technical Skills: Mathematical programming and analysis.

Cross-Disciplinary Interests: Philosophy: social choice, ethics, and rational decisions.

Professional Affiliations: AEA, Econometric Society (Fellow), European Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, Society for the Promotion of Economic Theory, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Social Choice and Welfare Society, Game Theory Society.