ERIM member Peter Wakker and Vitalie Spinu win Publication Award for the best decision analysis paper or book published in 2014
INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS) has awarded the Publication Award for best decision analysis paper or book published in 2014 to ERIM member Peter Wakker, professor of decisions under uncertainty at Erasmus School of Economics, together with assistant professor Vitalie Spinu, and Amit Kothiyal, researcher at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, for their paper Average Utility Maximization: A Preference Foundation.
The researchers will receive the Award at the Society’s Awards Session at the INFORMS Annual Meeting to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, 14 November 2016. INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the fields of operations research, management science, and analytics. The publication award committee cites the paper as “important work and [it] represents the best in [their] field”.
Full reference: Amit Kothiyal, Vitalie Spinu, Peter P. Wakker (2014) Average Utility Maximization: A Preference Foundation. Operations Research 62(1):207-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.2013.1230
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The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) is the Research School (Onderzoekschool) in the field of management of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The founding participants of ERIM are the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). ERIM was founded in 1999 and is officially accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The research undertaken by ERIM is focused on the management of the firm in its environment, its intra-and inter firm relations, and its business processes in their interdependent connections.
The objective of ERIM is to carry out first rate research in management, and to offer an advanced doctoral programme in Research in Management. Within ERIM, over three hundred senior researchers and PhD Candidates are active in the different research programmes. From a variety of academic backgrounds and expertise, the ERIM community is united in striving for excellence and working at the forefront of creating new business knowledge.
