1. Market design, by using game theoretic techniques, such as auctions.
2. Competition policy and analysis of (anti-)competitive behavior and mergers.
3. Regulation of network industries, such as telecommunications, electricity and the postal sector.

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Academic Positions

• 2002 - 2011 Director, TILEC (Tilburg Law and Economics Center), Tilburg University
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• 1993 - 1999 Chairman of the Board, CentER
• 1991 - 1992Director of Graduate Studies, CentER, Tilburg University
• 1990 - 1992 Director, CentER, Tilburg University
• 1989 - present Research Professor, CentER, Tilburg University
• 1986 - 1990Associate Professor (C3, Economic Theory), University of Bonn

• 1984 - 1986 Associate Professor, Technical University, Delft

• 1983 - 1984Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

• 1983Assistant Professor, Technical University, Delft

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Ph.D. supervision

Principal supervisor

• Georg Nöldeke, "Signalling in Markets and Games with Incomplete Information", University of Bonn, 1992.
• Sjaak Hurkens, "Games, Rules and Solutions", CentER, Tilburg University, 1995.
• Annemarie ter Veer, "Strategic Decision Making in Politics", CentER, Tilburg University, 1995.
• Paul de Bijl, "Essays in Industrial Organization and Mangement Strategy", (with Helmut Bester), CentER, Tilburg University, 1996.
• Jan Bouckaert, "Essays in Competition with Product Differentiation and Bargaining in Markets", (with Helmut Bester), CentER, Tilburg University, 1996.
• Henk Oosterhout, "Takeover Barriers: The good, the bad, and the ugly", CentER, Tilburg University, 1996 (with P. Moerland and H. Barkema).
• Uri Gneezy, "Essays in Behavioral Economics", CentER, Tilburg University, 1997.
• Jos Jansen, "Essays on Incentives in Regulation and Innovation", CentER, Tilburg University, 2000.
• Alexandre Possajennikov, "Learning and Evolution in Games and Oligopoly Models", CentER, Tilburg University, 2000.
• Maria Montero, "Endogenous Coalition Formation and Bargaining", CentER, Tilburg University, 2000.
• Vincent Verouden, "Essays in Antritrust Economics", CentER, Tilburg University, 2001.
• Sander Onderstal, "Papers in Auction Theory", CentER, Tilburg University 31 May 2002
• Evgenia Motchenkova, "Optimal Enforcement of Competition Law", CentER, Tilburg University 11 November 2005
• Marta Stryszowska, "Essays on Auctions", CentER, Tilburg University, 25 September 2006
• Paul Nilissen, "The future of Electricity Distirbution Regulation: lessons from Internatinal Experience", CentER, Tilburg University, 3 december 2008

Secondary Supervisor (Zweitgutachter, Co-promotor)

• Ulrich Kamecke, "Modelling Competition in Matching Markets with Non-Cooperative Game Theory", University of Bonn, 1988.
• Tilman Börgers, "Robustness of Bertrand's Equilibrium in a General Model of Product-Differentiation", University of Basel, 1988.
• Marcin Malawski, "Some Learning Processes in Population Games", University of Bonn, 1990.
• Stefan Zumsteg, "Non-Cooperative Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory and Related Computational Problems", ETH Zürich, 1995.
• Maartje Louise Verberne, "Verdeling van het Spectrum", University of Amsterdam, 2000.
• Geneviève Geenens, "Reciprocity: Experiments with dictator and ultimatum games" (with Jacqueline Loris-Teghem), Université de Mons-Hainaut, 2002

Member defense committee

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