Kirsten Rohde Appointed Endowed Professor of Behavioral Economics
TI congratulates fellow Kirsten Rohde (VU Amsterdam) who has been appointed as endowed professor of Behavioral Economics with a focus on intertemporal choice at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). Kirsten will hold this endowed chair through the Erasmus Trustfonds EUR within the department of Applied Economics, as of September 1, 2013.
Since 2006 Kirsten has been working at ESE and in 2007 she became a fellow of TI. Kirsten became an associate professor of Behavioral Economics at ESE in 2010. She received ESE Top Talent Research Awards in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and a prestigious VENI Research grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in 2008. Kirsten holds a PhD in Economics from Maastricht University (2006). She successfully defended her thesis on ‘Intertemporal Choice and Competitive Equilibrium’.
Kirsten Rohde’s research predominantly centers on intertemporal choice, a field of decision theory which analyses the tradeoffs people make between the present and the future. She has been working on an often observed irrationality in such tradeoffs: procrastination. Kirsten is interested in developing nudges to help people overcome such irrational behavior. She does both theoretical and experimental work. Other research areas of Kirsten Rohde include concerns for equality and social preferences, and decisions under risk.