Roland Iwan Luttens

Roland Iwan Luttens teaches Economic Thought in a Historical Perspective, the economics part of the theme course Introduction to Social Policy and the microeconomics part of Fundamentals of Micro- and Macroeconomics at Amsterdam University College. He is also a tutor. He holds a MSc in economics from the K.U.Leuven and a PhD in economics from Ghent University. His doctoral dissertation studied the introduction of liberal-egalitarian principles of justice in the axiomatic design of redistribution mechanisms. Before joining AUC, he worked six years as a post-doctoral researcher for the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO). During that period, he long-term visited Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (Bergen) and VU University Amsterdam. His current research tackles the question "who gets what and why?" in various economic settings. Among other things, he studies union-firm wage bargaining under non-binding contracts, equilibrium allocations in jungle economies where property rights are absent and the adjudication of conflicting claims in bankruptcy situations. He is an affiliated researcher of SHERPPA (Ghent University), CORE (Université Catholique de Louvain) and the Choice Lab (NHH).

Publications in Refereed International Journals

• Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 114(3), 881-907, 2012 (joint with M.-A. Valfort).
• Minimal rights based solidarity, Social Choice and Welfare, 34(1), 47-64, 2010.
• Is it fair to 'make work pay'?, Economica, 74(296), 599-626, 2007 (joint with E. Ooghe).
• Lorenz dominance and non-welfaristic redistribution, Social Choice and Welfare, 28(2), 281-302, 2007 (joint with D. Van de gaer).
• Responsibility sensitive egalitarianism and optimal linear income taxation, Mathematical Social Sciences, 48(2), 151-182, 2004 (joint with E. Schokkaert, D. Van de gaer and F. Vandenbroucke).

Working papers / work in progress

• An analysis of the determinants of starting an R&D project (joint with S. Dobbelaere and B. Peters).
• Lower bounds rule!
• The economics of first-contract mediation (joint with S. Dobbelaere).
• Pareto efficiency in the jungle (joint with H. Houba and H.P. Weikard).
• Fairness in bankruptcy situations: an experimental study (joint with A. Cappelen, E. Sorensen and B. Tungodden).

Teaching at AUC

• Economic Thought in a Historical Perspective (900131SSC).
• Fundamentals of Micro- and Macroeconomics (900231SSC).
• Theme course: Introduction to Social Systems (1) (900112SSC).

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