International Institute of Public Finance

Frans van Winden

Education
Frans van Winden University of Leiden, Ph.D., 1981
University of Amsterdam, M.A. Economics, 1973

Present Positions
Since 1983, Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam;
Since 1991, Director of CREED (Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision-making), University of Amsterdam

Past Positions
1980-1983, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Utrecht;
1973-1980; Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Leiden;
Visiting positions at: Caltech, ZiF-University of Bielefeld, Harvard, CES-University of Munich, IFS-University of Frankfurt, Center for Governance-UCLA

Selected Academic Activities
Founding Director CREED (Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision-making), University of Amsterdam, since 1991
Founding Co-Director of the Tinbergen Institute, 1987-1992 (member of the board: 1993-1997)
Coordinator of the research programme Institutions and Decision Analysis of the Tinbergen Institute, 1995-2002
Coordinator of the EU MC-RTN project ENABLE (European Network for the advancement of Behavioural Economics), 2004-2008
Coordinator of the EU TMR project ENDEAR (European Network for the Development of Experimental Economics and its Application to Research on Institutions and Individual Decision Making), 1998-2003
Member Nominating Committee of the European Economic Association, 1992 and 1997
Member of the executive board, European Public Choice Society, 1984-1995
Member of the executive board, Economic Science Association (ESA), 1994-2001

Selected Editorial Activities
Member of the editorial board, Public Choice, since 1988
Member of the editorial board, European Journal of Political Economy, 1985-2005
Editor, European Journal of Political Economy, 1998-2003

Honors and Affiliations
Research Fellow, Centre of Economic Policy Research (CEPR), since 2005
Research Fellow, CESifo, since 1999
Research Fellow, Tinbergen Institute, since 1987
Nomination Fellowship CASBS, Stanford, 2002
Invited plenary lecture, International Institute of Public Finance Conference, Linz, 2001
Member Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, since 1994
President of the European Public Choice Society, 1986/87
Cum Laude for doctoral dissertation, University of Leiden, 1983

Selected Publications
Books:
On the Interaction between State and Private Sector, A Study in Political Economics, North-Holland (Contributions to Economic Analysis), Amsterdam, 1983

Articles:
“Interest Group Size Dynamics and Policymaking” (with Vjollca Sadiraj and Jan Tuinstra), Public Choice, 2005, 125, 271-303.
“Experimental Investigation of Collective Action”, in: S. Winer and H. Shibata (eds.), Political Economy and Public Finance, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002, 178-196.
“Does Centralization Increase the Size of Government? The Effects of Separation of Powers and Lobbying” (with Isidoro Mazza), International Tax and Public Finance, 9, 2002, 379-399.
“Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment” (with Frans van Dijk and Joep Sonnemans), Journal of Public Economics, 85, 2002, 275-299.
“Emotional Hazard in a Power-to-Take Experiment” (with Ronald Bosman), Economic Journal, 112, 2002, 147-169.
“Emotional Hazard: Exemplified by Taxation-Induced Anger”, Kyklos, 54, 2001, 491-506.
“Does the Wage Tax System Cause Budget Deficits? A Macro-Eeconomic Experiment” (with Arno Riedl), Public Choice, 109, 2001, 371-394.
“Incentive Systems in a Real Effort Experiment” (with Frans van Dijk and Joep Sonnemans), European Economic Review, 45, 2001, 187-214.
“Conditional Cooperation and Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods” (with Claudia Keser), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 102, 2000, 23-39.
“(In)accuracy of a Political Stockmarket: The Influence of Common Value Structures” (with Ben Jacobsen, Jan Potters, Arthur Schram, and Jörgen Wit, European Economic Review, 44, 2000, 205-230.
“On the Economic Theory of Interest Groups: Towards a Group Frame of Reference in Political Economics”, Public Choice, 100, 1999, 1-29.
“An Experimental Examination of Rational Rent-Seeking” (with Jan Potters and Casper de Vries), European Journal of Political Economy, 14, 1998, 783-800.
“Dynamics of Social Ties and Local Public Good Provision” (with Frans van Dijk), Journal of Public Economics, 64, 1997, 323-341.
“Campaign Expenditures, Contributions and Direct Endorsements” (with Jan Potters and Randolph Sloof), European Journal of Political Economy, 13, 1997, 1-31.
“A General Equilibrium Model with Endogenous Government Behavior. An Analytical Approach” (with Eric Drissen), in: W. Barnett, M. Hinich and N. Schofield (eds.), Political Economy: Institutions, Information and Competition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, 487-522.
“Nomenklatura, State Monopoly, and Private Enterprise” (with Gerrit de Wit), Public Choice, 77, 1993, pp. 213-223.
“Social Security in a General Equilibrium Model with Endogenous Government Behavior” (with Eric Drissen), in: D. Bös and S. Cnossen (eds.), Fiscal Implications of an Aging Population, Springer, Berlin, 1992, pp. 1-22 (reprint of Journal of Population Economics, 4, 1991, 89-110).
“Lobbying and Asymmetric Information” (with Jan Potters), Public Choice, 74, 1992, 269-292.
“A Theoretical Model of a Multi-Level Government Applied to the Netherlands” (with Paul Renaud), in: R. Prud'homme (ed.), Public Finance with Several Levels of Government, Foundation Journal Public Finance, The Hague, 1991, 263-277.
“Why People Vote, Free Riding and the Production and Consumption of Social Pressure” (with Arthur Schram), Journal of Economic Psychology, 12, 1991, 575-620.
“Modelling Political Pressure As Transmission of Information” (with Jan Potters), European Journal of Political Economy, 6, 1990, 61-88.
“A Behavioral Model of Government Budget Deficits” (with Ben van Velthoven), Public Finance, 45, 1990, 128-161.
“Tax Rate and Government Expenditure” (with Paul Renaud), Kyklos, 40, 1987, 349-367.
“Social Classes and State Behaviour” (with Ben van Velthoven), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 142, 1986, 542-570.
“Public Pensions and Political Decision-Making” (with Harrie Verbon), in: J. Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg (ed.), Essays in Social Security Economics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986, 32-53.
“Towards a Politico-Economic Theory of Social Security” (with Ben van Velthoven), European Economic Review, 27, 1985, 263-289.
“Social Classes and State Behaviour, an Illustrative Application to the US Economy of the Interest Function Approach to Politico-Economic Modelling” (with Ben van Velthoven), Economics Letters, 16, 1984, 113-118.
“Towards a Dynamic Theory of Cabinet Formation”, in: M. Holler (ed.), Coalitions and Collective Action, Physica-Verlag, Wuerzburg, 1984, 145-159.
“A Dynamic Model of the Interaction between the State and the Private Sector” (with Bernard van Praag), Journal of Public Economics, 16, 1981, 53-86 (extended version of Economics Letters, 1978, 225-229).
“The Interaction between State and Firms”, Oxford Economic Papers, 32, 1980, 428-452.

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