Research Output per year
Personal profile
Personal information
I am a Professor of Finance at VU Amsterdam. The scope of my chair is Financial 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).
On September 21, 2017, I gave my inaugural lecture (in Dutch; video; text; photos).
Research
I work on themes in the fields of financial and behavioral economics, preferably where they intersect. My main research interests are related to financial judgment and decision making. Most of my projects are empirical, and use unconventional data such as data from TV game shows, lotteries and sports. In 2016 NWO awarded me a €800k Vidi research grant.
I am one of the initiators and organizers of the biennial Research in Behavioral Finance Conference (RBFC) series. The first three editions were held in Rotterdam (Sep 2014) and Amsterdam (Sep 2016 and Sep 2018). The next one will be in September 2020. Photos, programs and other information can be found on the RBFC website.
Joint with Doron Kliger and Remco Zwinkels I edited a special issue entitled Empirical Behavioral Finance for the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Vol. 107, Part B, 2014; ScienceDirect; Editorial).
Teaching
• Behavioral Finance (field course Tinbergen Institute)
• Behavioral Finance (elective MSc Finance and MSc BA - Financial Management)
• Behavioral Finance & Real Estate (course minor Real Estate Economics & Finance)
• Finance (course BSc International Business Administration)
• Finance 1 (course BSc Business Administration)
• Financial Judgment & Decision Making lectures in postgraduate programmes
• Theses
Prizes and Awards
In 2016 NWO awarded me a Vidi research grant worth €800,000 for my proposal "Game show economics: Decision making in high stakes natural experiments." The grant funds the projects on my research agenda that use TV game shows to analyze the economic behavior of people (Volkskrant).
In 2018 students gave me the MSc Finance Lecturer of the Year award. In 2011 I received a Top Lecturer Award from the Erasmus School of Economics.
Ancillary activities
- ASRE | Amsterdam | Guest lecturer | 2016-09-01 - present
- Laurea University of Applied Sciences | Helsinki | Guest lecturer | 2018-11-01 - present
Ancillary activities are updated daily
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Selected Research Output 1999 2019
Malleable Lies: Communication and Cooperation in a High Stakes TV Game Show
Turmunkh, U., van den Assem, M. J. & van Dolder, D., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Management Science. p. 1-35 35 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
Credibility
Communication
Conditionality
Cooperative behavior
Empirical analysis
The Wisdom of the Inner Crowd in Three Large Natural Experiments
van Dolder, D. & van den Assem, M. J., Jan 2018, In : Nature Human Behaviour. 2, 1, p. 21-26Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Economics
Research
Risky Choice in the Limelight
Baltussen, G., van den Assem, M. J. & van Dolder, D., 2016, In : Review of Economics and Statistics. 98, 2, p. 318-332Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
utility theory
model theory
anonymity
risk behavior
experiment
Number Preferences in Lotteries
Wang, T. V., Potter van Loon, R. J. D., van den Assem, M. J. & van Dolder, D., 2016, In : Judgment and Decision Making. 11, 3, p. 243-259Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show
van Dolder, D., van den Assem, M. J., Camerer, C. F. & Thaler, R. H., 2015, In : American Economic Review. 105, 5, p. 402-407Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large
van den Assem, M. J., van Dolder, D. & Thaler, R. H., 2012, In : Management Science. 58, 1, p. 2-20Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Interaction
Cooperative behavior
Conditional cooperation
Gender effects
Prisoners' dilemma
Random Incentive Systems in a Dynamic Choice Experiment
Baltussen, G., Post, G. T., van den Assem, M. J. & Wakker, P. P., 2012, In : Experimental Economics. 15, 3, p. 418-443Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
Randomization
Incentive systems
Dynamic choice
Choice experiment
Experiment
Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show
Post, G. T., van den Assem, M. J., Baltussen, G. & Thaler, R. H., 2008, In : American Economic Review. 98, 1, p. 38-71Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Activities 2014 2014
- 1 Editorial work
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Journal)
M.J. van den Assem (Member of editorial board)2014 → 2019
Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
Prizes
NWO-VIDI Grant for proposal on 'Game show economics: Decision making in high stakes natural experiments'
M.J. van den Assem (Recipient), 2016
Prize › Academic