Dr Willem Spanjers

About

I am micro-economist, with specialisations in behavioural decision models, including models of ambiguity, in financial economics, and in re-thinking the social market economy.

These interests are reflected in my academic career. After doing my doctorate as a teaching and research assistant at Tilburg University, I held positions outside the Netherlands. In Germany at the Institute of Mathematical Economics of the University of Bielefeld, at the University of Saarland, and Chemnitz University of Technology; in the UK at the University of Birmingham and at Kingston University. At Kingston University I was Director of Studies, Deputy Head of School, and Acting Head of the School of Economics.

From 2009 to 2011 I was seconded to the University of Freiburg in Germany as Acting Full Professor and Interim Director of the Institute for Research in Economic Evolution, on the Chair formerly held by Walter Eucken, a founding father of the Freiburg School of Economic Thought and of the Social Market Economy.

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Academic responsibilities

Principal Lecturer

Qualifications

  • Doctorandus in Econometrics (Drs; appr. MSc in Quantiative Economics), 1988, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
  • Doctor in Mathematical Economics (Dr), 1992, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
  • Habilitation in Economics (PD), 2000, University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany
  • Habiltation in Economics (Dr.rer.pol.habil.), 2001, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

Teaching and learning

Research