Dr. A.M. (Sander) Onderstal
 | Name: Sander Onderstal
Date of birth: October 27, 1973 Marital status: Not married Children: None |
Homo sapiens non urinat contra ventum!
| Current job: | 07/2004 - present: Assistant professor |
| Address: | Amsterdam School of Economics |
| University of Amsterdam | |
| Roetersstraat 11 | |
| 1018 WB Amsterdam | |
| The Netherlands | |
| phone: +31 20 525 7161 | |
| fax: +31 20 525 5591 | |
| e-mail: A.M.Onderstal@uva.nl | |
| Web:http://www.sanderonderstal.com/ |
| Previous work experience: | 2001 - 2004: | Researcher - Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) |
| 1993 - 2001: | Teaching and research assistant - Tilburg University | |
| 1997: | Internship - KPN Research | |
| 1998 - 2000: | Consultancy projects related to auctions |
Fields of research:
Auction theory
Current research project:
Auctions in the labor market
| Period at CentER Graduate School: | 1997 - 2002 |
| Title of Ph.D. thesis: | Papers in Auction Theory |
| Date of defence: | May 31, 2002 |
| Promotor: | Prof.dr. Eric van Damme |
| Educational record: | 1997 - 2002: | Ph.D. - Tilburg University |
| 1997 - 2000: | Ph.D. courses - NAKE | |
| 1992 - 1997: | Undergraduate econometrics - Tilburg University | |
| 1986 - 1992: | Gymnasium |
Best experience at CentER:
The ENTER program
Worst experience at CentER:
The potatoes in the Mensa
Best advice from my supervisor:
"Cut off the fat": explain things in the simplest possible way
My advice for first year students:
Travel! Visit summer schools, workshops and conferences, and organize an exchange with another university, for instance through the ENTER program
My favourite book:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (R.M. Pirsig)
The best paper I have ever read:
Roth, A.E: The economist as engineer: Game theory, experimental economics and computation as tools of design economics, Econometrica, 2002
Who I think should get the Nobel Prize for Economics, and why:
Oliver Hart, for his contribution to contract theory, which is applied in a large number of fields, including industrial organization and accounting
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Contact:
CentERPO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands