Bauke Visser

Bauke Visser is a professor of economics at the Erasmus School of Economics. He holds an MSc in econometrics (cum laude) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He joined Erasmus University in 2000, after a two-year stint in corporate planning and strategy at Royal Dutch Shell. 

In 2011-2015, he was the director of the Tinbergen Institute, the research institute and graduate school of the economics and business faculties of Erasmus University Rotterdam, VU University Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. During those years, he was first a member, then the chair of the Taskforce Scientific Integrity of Erasmus University. He was a Fernand Braudel senior fellow at the European University Institute in 2008. In 1997, during his PhD, he spent three months at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in its Young Scientists Summer Program

His research deals with decision-making processes, contracting and governance. It has been published in, among others, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, the Journal of Public Economics and Management Science. He has a keen interest in networks and complexity, about which he has published in, among others, the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Emergence: Complexity and Organization and the Journal of Economic Surveys.

He has been teaching courses on decision-making processes, contracting and governance and on (applied) game theory for many years.