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prof. dr. Martijn van den Assem

Full Professor, School of Business and Economics, Finance

, Tinbergen Institute

Personal information

I am a Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. The scope of my chair is judgment and decision making. I am affiliated with the Tinbergen Institute as a Research Fellow (TI), and serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO). I am one of the founders and organizers of the biennial Research in Behavioral Finance Conference (RBFC) series.

I gave my inaugural lecture on September 21, 2017 (in Dutch; video; text; photos).

Research

I work on themes in the fields of financial and behavioral economics. My main research interests are related to judgment and decision making. Most of my research projects are empirical, and I often use data from unconventional sources such as television game shows, lotteries and sports.

Visit my personal homepage for an overview of my publications.

Teaching

I teach in BSc, MSc, PhD and post-experience programs. Current teaching activities at the Vrije Universiteit:

• Behavioral Finance (field course Tinbergen Institute)
• Behavioral Finance (elective course MSc Finance)
• Behavioral Finance & Real Estate (course minor Real Estate Economics & Finance)
• Judgment & Decision Making lectures in post-experience programs
• Theses

Additionally I am a co-examiner for multiple introductory Finance courses:
• Finance (BSc International Business Administration)
• Finance 1 (BSc Economics and Business Economics)
• Financieel Management 1 (BSc Bedrijfskunde)

Prizes and Awards

In 2016 the Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded me a Vidi grant worth €800,000 for my proposal "Game show economics: Decision making in high stakes natural experiments." The grant has funded multiple of my research projects that use TV game shows to analyze the economic behavior of people.

In 2011 I received a Top Lecturer Award from the Erasmus School of Economics, and in 2018 students gave me the MSc Finance Lecturer of the Year award.

Ancillary activities

ASRE | Amsterdam | Guest lecturer | 2016-09-01 - present
Laurea University of Applied Sciences | Helsinki | Guest lecturer | 2018-11-01 - present
Antwerp Management School | Antwerpen | Guest lecturer | 2021-01-01 - present
Diverse opdrachtgevers / evenementenorganisaties | - | Ad hoc event speaker | 2022-09-01 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily