Oliver Walker
Centre member
Oliver is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Oliver's current work examines the effect of different types of uncertainty on the formulation of optimal policy and insurance contracts, with a particular focus on ambiguity (uncertainty over the correct probability distribution) and unawareness (the presence of unknown unknowns). This draws on recent developments in decision theory and experimental evidence on choice behaviour.
Background
Oliver's PhD is based at the Economics Department at the University of Oxford. He is also a college lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Research interests
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Decision theory
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Insurance
Research articles
2011
Walker, O. December 2011. Unawareness with 'possible' possible worlds. Working Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (345KB)
Walker, O., and Dietz, S. September 2011. A representation result for choice under conscious unawareness. Working Paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (881KB)
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