| “My Chair is divided across two fields of study,
namely Quantitative Economics, or Econometrics,
and Organisation and Strategy. One side of the
research is concerned with the development of
methods and techniques for collecting data, or
‘data techniques’, in which I look for ways to collect
(primary) data, for example through interviews and
questionnaires. And I study which existing
(secondary) data is available. Within the Chair, we
developed our own course in this field: Business
Research Methods.
Using this data, I study the functioning of markets
and companies. This part of the research
concentrates mainly on the development of
econometric methods of empirical analysis and
behavioural models that describe the decisions of
entrepreneurs. An example of such a model is how
firms make investment decisions under uncertainty
while facing fixed and variable costs of adjustment.
Other examples include the analysis of the
structure of markets and business tasks, mergers
and acquisitions, or the expansion or downsizing of
organisations.
I am regularly asked to sit on international panels
for the evaluation of research, which means I
regularly come across the international equivalents
of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO). The said panels select excellent
promising young researchers and evaluate research
institutes or research programmes.”
Additional functions:
- Founder of the Journal of Empirical Finance (Elsevier)
and Editor-in-Chief of the European Economic Review
(Elsevier)
- Editor-in-Chief of the European Economic Review
(Elsevier)
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