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Benoît Crutzen

Research Fellow

University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Research field
Organizations and Markets
Interests
Organizational Economics, Political Economy, Public Finance

Biography

Benoit Crutzen holds a PhD in economics from Universite Libre de Bruxelles (2004), an MPhil in economics from Oxford University (1998) and a first degree in economics from Bocconi University.

Benoit joined the department of economics of the Erasmus School of Economics in 2005. His research interests are in political economy and organisational economics. In particular, his works focus on how political parties organise and what consequences party choices have for electoral and policy outcomes.

He served as Tinbergen Institute's Director of Graduate Studies from January 2021 to December 2024 and as Doctoral Director of the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) between 2015 and 2023.

His teaching duties include undergraduate courses at ESE and graduate field courses at Tinbergen Institute. At ESE he won five teaching awards between 2008 ad 2014.

List of publications

Crutzen, Beno\^itS.Y. and Flamand, S. (2023). Leaders, factions and the determinants of electoral success European Journal of Political Economy, 80:.

Crutzen, B. and Sahuguet, N. (2023). Comparative politics with intraparty candidate selection European Journal of Political Economy, 79:.

Konishi, H., Sahuguet, N. and Crutzen, Beno\^itS.Y. (2023). Allocation rules of indivisible prizes in team contests Economic Theory, 78(1):69--100.

Crutzen, B., Flamand, S. and Sahuguet, N. (2020). A model of a team contest, with an application to incentives under list proportional representation Journal of Public Economics, 182:.

Visser, B., Swank, O. and Crutzen, B. (2013). Confidence Management: on Interpersonal Comparisons in Teams Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 22(4):744--767.

Crutzen, B. and Holton, S. (2011). The More the Merrier? Natural Resource Fragmentation and the Wealth of Nations Kyklos, 64(4):500--515.

Crutzen, B., Castanheira, M. and Sahuguet, N. (2010). Party organization and electoral competition Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 26(2):212--242.

Crutzen, B., Sahuguet, N. and Castanheira, M. (2010). Intraparty Politics and Political Competition Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 26(2):1--31.

Crutzen, B. and Sahuguet, N. (2009). Redistributive Politics with Distortionary Taxation Journal of Economic Theory, 144(1):264--279.