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36
Citations
8498
World Ranking
6388
National Ranking
1030

Overview

Peter J. Hammond is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work primarily spans areas such as economic and environmental valuation, decision-making and behavioral economics, and Bayesian modeling and causal inference.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Roberts' weak welfarism theorem: a minor correction, 2021, Social Choice and Welfare
  • The one-way Fubini property and conditional independence: An equivalence result, 2020, Advances in Mathematics
  • Monte Carlo sampling processes and incentive compatible allocations in large economies, 2020, Economic Theory

Other papers by Hammond have appeared alongside those authored by frequent collaborators, including Graciela Chichilnisky and Christine Meemann. Research topics often focus on intersections between economic theory and policy, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • Social Choice and Welfare
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Advances in Mathematics
  • Economic Theory
  • Revue économique

Key subfields of study within Hammond's work include economics and econometrics, artificial intelligence, general decision sciences, management, monitoring, policy and law, and gender studies.

Hammond's research engages deeply with several core topics such as:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Throughout their career, Hammond has worked frequently with co-authors including Graciela Chichilnisky, Christine Meemann, Stefan Traub, Yeneng Sun, and Nicholas Stern. The collaboration networks reflect interdisciplinary approaches blending economic theory with applied policy and quantitative methods.

Best Publications

  • The Implementation of Social Choice Rules: Some General Results on Incentive Compatibility

    Partha Dasgupta;Peter Hammond;Eric Maskin

  • EQUITY, ARROW'S CONDITIONS, AND RAWLS' DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE'

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Consequentialist foundations for expected utility

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Straightforward Individual Incentive Compatibility in Large Economies

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Changing Tastes and Coherent Dynamic Choice

    Peter J. Hammond

  • On Hartwick's Rule for Regular Maximin Paths of Capital Accumulation and Resource Depletion

    Avinash Dixit;Peter Hammond;Michael Hoel

  • Handbook of Utility Theory

    Salvador Barberà;Peter J. Hammond;Christian Seidl

  • On Imperfect Information and Optimal Pollution Control

    Partha Dasgupta;Peter Hammond;Eric Maskin

  • Ex-ante and Ex-post Welfare Optimality under Uncertainty

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis

    Knut Sydsaeter;Peter J. Hammond

  • Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility: Why and how they are and should be made.

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Matemáticas para el análisis económico

    Knut Sydsaeter;Peter Hammond

  • Mathematics for economic analysis

    Knut Sydsaeter;Peter J. Hammond

  • Markets as Constraints: Multilateral Incentive Compatibility in Continuum Economies

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Equity in Two Person Situations: Some Consequences

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Continuum economies with finite coalitions: Core, equilibria, and widespread externalities

    Peter J Hammond;Mamoru Kaneko;Myrna Holtz Wooders

  • Elementary Non-Archimedean Representations of Probability for Decision Theory and Games

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Ex-post optimality as a dynamically consistent objective for collective choice under uncertainty

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Interpersonally Comparable Utility

    Marc Fleurbaey;Peter J. Hammond

  • Fully progressive taxation

    Partha Dasgupta;Peter Hammond

  • WHY ETHICAL MEASURES OF INEQUALITY NEED INTERPERSONAL COMPARISONS

    Peter J. Hammond

  • Dual interpersonal comparisons of utility and the welfare economics of income distribution

    Peter J. Hammond

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