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PictureI am assistant professor in economics and entrepreneurship at Erasmus University Rotterdam and associate editor of Small Business Economics.

My research interests are in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation.

Recently, I worked on the microeconomic foundations of entrepreneurship and various empirical studies on start-up decisions. I am also involved in a large-scale research effort on genetic determinants of economic behavior.

A selection of my papers is accessible online.

News

My co-author Christian Roessler and me won the EARIE Young Economists Essay Award 2009 for our article "Entrepreneurship, firm formation and organizational design".



Recent research

"Genome-wide assocation studies in economic and entrepreneurship research: promises and limitations", with with P.J.F. Groenen, A. Hofman, M.J.H.M. van der Loos, F. Rivadeneira, F. van Rooij, R. Thurik and A. Uitterlinden, Small Business Economics, 35(1), 1-18, 2010. (open access article)

"Genome-wide association studies and the genetics of entrepreneurship", with M. van der Loos, P. Groenen and R. Thurik, European Journal of Epidemiology, 25(1), 1-3, 2010. (open access article)


Recent columns


"Happiness without economic growth?" (4.12.2009)

"The fall of the Berlin Wall" (9.11.2009)

Last update: August 31th, 2010.