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Peter J. Hammond

Professor (Emeritus)

Peter Hammond

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hammond@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~hammond/
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Office: 579 Serra Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305-6072

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Curriculum Vitae

Interests

  • Research: 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
  • Teaching: Mathematics for economic analysis (2 textbooks), welfare economics, decision and game theory, general equilibrium, ethics, in economic policy
  • Professional Affiliations: AEA, Economic 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, Association for Public Economic Theory

Recent Publications

(1) “Monte Carlo Simulation of Macroeconomic Risk with a Continuum of Agents: The Symmetric Case” (with Yeneng Sun) Economic Theory, 21, pp. 743-766, 2003

(2) “Expected Utility in Non-Cooperative Game Theory,” in Handbook of Utility Theory, Vol.2: Extensions, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 982-1063, 2004

(3) “Social Welfare Functionals on Restricted Domains and in Economic Environments” (with Georges Bordes and Michel Le Breton), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 7 pp. 1-25, 2005

(4) “Gains from Trade versus Gains from Migration: What makes Them So Different?” (with Jaume Sempere) Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8 pp. 145-170, 2006

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Education

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