Amma Panin is an assistant professor of economics at UCLouvain. She studies how risk and uncertainty shape economic decision making. She has a particular interest in understanding how contemporary religious institutions evolve to provide substitutes to insurance and other services that might otherwise be provided by formal markets. 

She applies insights from behavioral economics to develop descriptive models of decision making under risk. Two important areas of insight include motivated beliefs and components of prospect theory, such as probability weighting and loss aversion. A strand of her research focuses on how such preferences can be measured experimentally. She has experience running lab and field experiments in several countries. 

Amma holds a PhD in economics from the Berlin School of Economics and spent time as a postdoc at the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Science at the University of Oxford and in the office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region at the World Bank.