I'm an associate professor in microeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

My research interests are primarily in the fields of Industrial Organization, Public Economics, and Auctions.

I'm also the coordinator of the Research Master in Economics and Business at the University of Groningen.

I'm a fellow of ENCORE, NAKE, SOM. I'm also a member of the Executive Committee of EARIE.

By clicking on the relevant links on the left, you can find my publications, those in Dutch, my working papers. work in progress and some links.

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Recent Updates

May 23: New publication: "The Effects of Institutional Change in European Soccer", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik,  2012, 232(3), pp. 318-335 (with Ruud Koning and Arjen van Witteloostuijn). 

Mar 23: New publication in Dutch: "De prijseffecten van benzineveilingen" (joint work with Pim Heijnen and Adriaan Soetevent), TPEdigitaal, 2012, 6(1), pp. 35-48.

Feb 4: New publication: "Sound Taxation? On the use of self-declared value" (joint work with Pim Heijnen, Bert Schoonbeek, and Linda Toolsema), European Economic Review, 2012, 56(2), pp. 205-215.

Nov 25: New paper: "Leniency Programs and the Design of Antitrust: Experimental Evidence with Unrestricted Communication" (joint with Peter Dijkstra and Bert Schoonbeek) is now online.

Sep 27: New publication: "Signaling strength? An analysis of economic decision making in The Weakest Link" (joint with Bart Los and Yohanes Riyanto), Theory and Decision, 2011, 71(4), pp. 519-537.