Prof.i.R. Dr. rer.pol. Wulf Gaertner
In recent years, the field of theoretical economics has dealt with the following areas and continues to do so to this day: Theory of collective decisions, "empirical social choice", experimental game theory and consistent dynamic decision behavior.
Here is a selection of works written in recent years:
Prof.i.R. Dr. rer.pol. Wulf Gaertner
Economics/Microeconomic Theory
Room: 29/B03
Phone: +49 541 969-2641
wulf.gaertner@uni-osnabrueck.de
Publications
Gaertner, W. (together with N. Wüthrich): "Evaluating competing theories via a common language of qualitative verdicts". Synthese, 193, pp. 3293-3309 (2016)
Gaertner, W. (together with L. Schwettmann): "Burden sharing in deficit countries: A questionnaire-experimental investigation". SERIEs, 8, pp. 113-144 (2017)
Gaertner, W. (together with R. Bradley, L. Schwettmann, Y. Xu): "Against the proportionality principle: Experimental findings on bargaining over losses". PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218805 (2019)
Gaertner, W.: "Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem stretching to other fields". Public Choice, 179, pp. 125-131 (2019)
Gaertner, W. (together with Y. Xu): "Loss sharing: Characterizing a new class of rules". Mathematical Social Sciences, 107, pp. 37-40 (2020)
Gaertner, W. (together with Y. Li): "Exempting agents from any burden sharing: A lab-experimental study on the distribution of a monetary loss". The Journal of Economic Inequality. Published online: 03 Sept. 2025
Gaertner, W. (together with F. Meickmann): "Loss distribution in groups: The roles of merit and veil". Sept. 2025 (under review)
Gaertner, W. : "Amartya Sen's contributions to and around Kenneth Arrow's 'General Possibbility Theorem'". Dec. 2025 (under review).
Gaertner, W. (together with Y. Xu): "Consistent dynamic choice". Work in progress, 2025