Biography
Martijn J. van den Assem is an associate professor at
the Finance Group of the Department of Business
Economics, the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE).
His research interests are broad, with a particular
focus on themes from the fields of financial and behavioral
economics. Examples are decision making under risk,
initial public equity offerings, bargaining, and social
behavior.
His research is mostly empirical, focused at
individual choice, and based on non-standard data. He has
served as a referee for many different high-quality
scholarly journals, and is currently co-editing a special
issue on empirical behavioral finance for the Journal of
Economic Behavior & Organization.
His article based on the TV game show Deal or
No Deal was published in the esteemed American
Economic Review and ranks among the most frequently
downloaded articles of all times in the field of social
sciences. He has also published in Experimental
Economics and Management Science.
Professor van den Assem is currently the
bachelor thesis coordinator and the internship coordinator
for the ESE Finance Group, and a member of ESE's Exam
Committee. From 2005 until 2011, he was a member of the
Executive Board of the Finance Group.
As a lecturer, he is actively involved in his
school’s Bachelor’s and Master’s programs. In 2011, he
received a Top Lecturer Award from ESE.
Erasmus School of Economics
- vandenassem@ese.eur.nl
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Work
- Bouke Klein Teeselink, Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon, Martijn J. van den Assem & Dennie van Dolder (2020) - Incentives, performance and choking in darts - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 169, 38-52 - doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.10.026 - [link]
- MJ assem, Nico van der Sar & Philippe Versijp (2017) - CEOs and CFOs on IPOs: the process and success of going public - De Economist, 165 (4), 381-410 - doi: 10.1007/s10645-017-9302-y - [link]
- Guido Baltussen, MJ assem & D (Dennie) van Dolder (2016) - Risky Choice in the Limelight - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (2), 318-332 - doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2057134
- Rogier Potter van Loon, MJ assem & D (Dennie) van Dolder (2015) - Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online Poker - PLoS One (print), 10 (3), e0115479 - doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115479 - [link]
- KA (Kaisa) Hytonen, Guido Baltussen, MJ assem, VA Klucharev, AG Sanfey & Ale Smidts (2014) - Path Dependence in Risky Choice: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Brain and Behavior - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 107 (11), 566-581 - doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.01.016 - [link]
- O Pennin, MJ assem & Remco Zwinkels (2013) - A Critical Review of the Fair Value Settlement Procedure for Stock Options
- MJ assem & D (Dennie) van Dolder (2013) - Big Peanuts - Tijdschrift voor het Economisch Onderwijs, (3), 48-50
- MJ assem (2013) - Gedragseconomie en het vriendelijk terugdringen van autogebruik - Factor D, 31 (3), 24
- D (Dennie) van Dolder, MJ assem, CF Camerer & RH Thaler (2013) - Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show
- Guido Baltussen, GT (Thierry) Post, MJ assem & Peter Wakker (2012) - Random Incentive Systems in a Dynamic Choice Experiment - Experimental Economics, 15 (3), 418-443 - doi: 10.1007/s10683-011-9306-4 - [link]
