Prof. Dr. Anke Gerber

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• Since 06/2009: Full Professor of Economics (W3), in particular Microeconomic Theory and Experiments, University of Hamburg
• 09/2007-05/2009: Associate Professor of Economics (W2), in particular Microeconomics, University of Hamburg
• 10/2006-03/2007: Visiting Professor of Economics, Heidelberg University
• 06/2006-08/2007: Reader ("Oberassistentin"), Swiss Banking Insitute, University of Zurich
• 01/2002-05/2006: Reader ("Oberassistentin"), Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich
• 10/1999-12/2001: Research Associate ("Assistentin"), Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich
• 04/1999-09/1999: Research Fellow in the project "Evolution in Financial Markets", financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG), Bielefeld University
• 12/1998-03/1999: Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 303, University of Bonn
• 12/1998: PhD in Economics, Bielefeld University (Title of the PhD thesis: "Bargaining and Coalition Formation")
• 02/1995-12/1998: PhD student at the Graduate College "Mathematical Economics", Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW), Bielefeld University
• 01/1995: Diploma in Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University (Title of the Diploma thesis: "A Principle of Equivalence"
• 10/1989-01/1995: Undergraduate and graduate studies in Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University

2023

Salvador Barberà and Anke Gerber. “(Not) Addressing Issues in Electoral Campaigns”. Journal of Theoretical Politics 35. (2023): p. 259-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/09516298231202424

2022

Salvador Barberà and Anke Gerber. “Deciding on what to Decide”. International Economic Review 63. (2022): p. 37-61.http://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12542

2020

Anke Gerber. “The Nash Solution as a von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Function on Bargaining Games”. Homo Oeconomicus 37. (2020): p. 87–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41412-020-00095-9

2019

Anke Gerber, Andreas Nicklisch and Stefan Voigt. “The Role of Ignorance in the Emergence of Redistribution”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 163. (2019): p. 239-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.04.021

Anke Gerber. “Collective Time Preferences”. The Future of Economic Design: The Continuing Development of a Field as Envisioned by Its Researchers. Hg. Jean-Francois Laslier, Hervé Moulin, M. Remzi Sanver, William S. Zwicker. Springer, 2019, p. 375-379. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030180492#aboutBook#aboutBook

2018

Anke Gerber and Kirsten I. M. Rohde. “Weighted Temporal Utility”. Economic Theory 66. (2018): p. 187–212. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00199-017-1058-8

Anke Gerber, Corina Haita-Falah and Andreas Lange. “The Agency of Politics and Science”. Economic Inquiry 56. (2018): p. 1543-1561. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12562

2017

Salvador Barberà and Anke Gerber. “Sequential Voting and Agenda Manipulation”. Theoretical Economics 12. (2017): p. 211–247. https://doi.org/10.3982/TE2118

Anke Gerber and Thorsten Hens. “Modelling Alpha in a CAPM with Heterogenous Beliefs”. Journal of Finance and Economics 5 (2). (2017): p. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.12735/jfe.v5n2p01

2015

Anke Gerber and Kirsten I. M. Rohde. “Eliciting Discount Functions when Baseline Consumption Changes over Time”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 116. (2015): p. 56–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.03.019

2013

Anke Gerber, Jakob Neitzel and Philipp C. Wichardt. “Minimum Participation Rules for the Provision of Public Goods”. European Economic Review 64. (2013): p. 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.09.002

Anke Gerber and Philipp C. Wichardt. “On the Private Provision of Intertemporal Public Goods with Stock Effects”. Environmental and Resource Economics 55. (2013): p. 245-255. doi: 10.1007/s10640-012-9624-9

2010

Anke Gerber and Kirsten I. M. Rohde. “Risk and Preference Reversals in Intertemporal Choice”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 76. (2010): p. 654-668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2010.09.005

Anke Gerber, Thorsten Hens and Bodo Vogt. “Rational Investor Sentiment in a Repeated Stochastic Game with Imperfect Monitoring”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 76. (2010): p. 669-704.doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.08.001

Anke Gerber, Thorsten Hens and Peter Woehrmann. “Dynamic General Equilibrium and T-Period Fund Separation”. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 45. (2010): p. 369-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2010.08.001

Anke Gerber and Philipp C. Wichardt. “Iterated Reasoning and Welfare Enhancing Instruments in the Centipede Game”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 74. (2010): p. 123–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.12.004

2009

Anke Gerber and Philipp C. Wichardt. “Providing Public Goods in the Absence of Strong Institutions”. Journal of Public Economics 93. (2009): p. 429–439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.10.006

2008

Anke Gerber. “Direct versus Intermediated Finance: an Old Question and a New Answer”. European Economic Review 52. (2008): p. 28-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2007.01.009

2007

Salvador Barberà and Anke Gerber. “A Note on the Impossibility of a Satisfactory Concept of Stability for Coalition Formation Games”. Economics Letters 95. (2007): p. 85-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2006.09.018

Anke Gerber and Marc Oliver Bettzüge. “Evolutionary Choice of Markets”. Economic Theory 30. (2007): p. 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-005-0063-5

2006

Anke Gerber and Thorsten Upmann. “Bargaining Solutions at Work: Qualitative Differences in Policy Implications”. Mathematical Social Sciences 52. (2006): p. 162-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2006.06.002

2005

Anke Gerber. “Reference Functions and Solutions to Bargaining Problems with and without Claims”. Social Choice and Welfare 24. (2005): p. 527-541. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-004-0315-5

2003

Salvador Barberà and Anke Gerber. “On Coalition Formation: Durable Coalition Structures”. Mathematical Social Sciences 45. (2003): p. 185-203.doi:10.1016/S0165-4896(03)00025-8

2000

Anke Gerber. “Coalition Formation in General NTU Games”. Review of Economic Design 5. (2000): p. 149-175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s100580000016

1999

Anke Gerber. “The Nash Solution and the Utility of Bargaining: A Corrigendum”. Econometrica 67. (1999): p. 1239-1240. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0262.00075

1998

Anke Gerber and Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin. “Political Compromise and Endogenous Formation of Coalitions”. Social Choice and Welfare 15. (1998): p. 445-454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s003550050116

• "The Timing of Political Pledges" (joint with Jesus S. Ibrahim), April 2026, available from authors upon request.
• "On the Endogenous Order of Play in Sequential Games" (joint with S. Barberà), January 2026, available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6150210 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6150210.
• "Sequential Voting and Agenda Manipulation: The Case of Forward Looking Tie-Breaking" (joint with S. Barberà), October 2015, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2483329.

• Spokesperson of the DFG Graduate Program "Collective Decision-Making" (GRK 2503) since 2020.
• Member of Academia Europaea.
• Member of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare.
• Member of the Standing Field Committee in Economic Theory of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik).
• Director of the master program M.Sc. Politics, Economics and Philosophy (PEP).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (Springer-Verlag).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Games.
• Referee for: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Constitutional Political Economy, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Economics Bulletin, Economics Letters, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Games and Economic Behavior, German Economic Review, International Game Theory Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, OR Spektrum, Public Choice, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Spanish Economic Review, Theory and Decision.