Professors
Economics: Behavioural Economics and Game Theory
Prof. Lex Hoogduijn
Lex Hoogduin is professor of monetary economics and financial institutions. He is also a visiting professor of Duisenberg School of Finance (DSF), where he focuses on the impact of complexity and fundamental uncertainty on macroprudential policy, risk management and strategy formulation. He completed his MSc in general economics and his PhD at the University of Groningen.
He has worked many years at the Dutch central bank in senior positions, most recently as executive director for monetary policy and financial stability from 2009 until July 2011 . From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the European Monetar Institute (EMI) and the European Central Bank (ECB) as personal advisor to Wim Duisenberg, the first president of the ECB. He is also member of a number of advisory coucils in the academic world.
Prof. Theo Offerman
Theo Offerman is professor of Behavioral Game Theory at the Department of Economics of the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include experimental economics, game theory and behavioral economics. He is a research fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and a research fellow of Tinbergen Institute.
Dr Sander Onderstal
Sander Onderstal is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. He teaches courses in Industrial Organization for Economics and Business students. Sander obtained his PhD at Tilburg University. He won a bi-annual prize for the best PhD thesis in Economics in the Netherlands. Currently, he is research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, ENCORE (Economics Network for Competition and Regulation), and ACLE (Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics). His current research interests include auctions, contracts, and experimental economics. He has published in the Journal of Political Economy and Economic Theory.
Sander is also involved in contract research. For instance, he has advised several ministries on auctions for gasoline stations, frequencies for commercial radio stations, and welfare-to-work programs. As of February 2007, he will be economic advisor to the Knowledge Centre for Competition and Regulation of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Frans van Winden
Frans van Winden is professor of economics at the Amsterdam School of Economics, and PI at the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, of the University of Amsterdam. He is founding-director of CREED (1991-2011) and founding co-director (1987-1992) and former member of the board of the Tinbergen Institute. He held visiting positions at a.o. the California Institute of Technology, Harvard Univeristy, CES (Munich), the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (Bielefeld), and UCLA. He is a fellow of CEPR, CESifo and the Tinbergen Institute, and at present on the editorial board of Public Choice. His main research interests are in the fields of political economics, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics and experimental economics.
Erik Plug
Erik Plug is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, he was Director of Graduate Studies of the Tinbergen Institute and held positions at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Wageningen University. Erik studied econometrics and graduated in 1992 at the University of Amsterdam. At the same university he obtained his Ph.D. in 1997. His recent work is published in among others American Economic Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His current research interests relate to family, education and labor economics.
Sweder van Wijnbergen
Sweder van Wijnbergen is professor of International Economics, Transition Economics, and Growth theory at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Economics and Business.
Dr. Matthijs van Veelen
Matthijs van Veelen is a lecturer in microeconomics at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Economics and Business.