Robert Raschka

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the department of economics at University of Hamburg, working on social choice theory, welfare economics, and decision theory. I obtained my PhD in economics at University of Hamburg in May 2024 as part of the Graduate Program Collective Decision-Making.

My research focuses on the aggregation of individual evaluations into an overall evaluation of choice alternatives. Main applications are social welfare evaluation and voting. I analyze aggregation procedures like generalized utilitarianism, egalitarianism, majority rules, and Borda rules. For that purpose, I investigate the joint implications of normative conditions (including rationality, equity, separability, and independence conditions) and informational assumptions (including the extent of intra- and interpersonal well-being comparability). My research covers the topics of welfarism, variable population social evaluation, and choice under uncertainty.