Martijn J. van den Assem

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Professor of Finance - Judgment and Decision Making

De Boelelaan 1105

Amsterdam, 1081HV

Netherlands

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1.

Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show

American Economic Review, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp. 38-71, March 2008
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2012
Thierry Post, Martijn J. van den Assem, Guido Baltussen and Richard H. Thaler
Graduate School of Business of Nazarbayev University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Decision making under risk, Expected utility theory, Prospect theory

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Split or Steal? Cooperative Behavior When the Stakes Are Large

Management Science, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 2-20, January 2012
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2013
Martijn J. van den Assem, Dennie van Dolder and Richard H. Thaler
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Essex - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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natural experiment, game show, prisoner’s dilemma, cooperation, cooperative behavior, social behavior, social preferences, reciprocity, reciprocal behavior, context effects, anchoring

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Beyond Chance? The Persistence of Performance in Online Poker

PLoS ONE 10(3): e0115479, March 2015
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2015
Rogier Jan Dave Potter van Loon, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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poker, online poker, no limit texas hold’em, online gambling, skill, chance, game of skill, game of chance, performance persistence, predominance test

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Risky Choice and the Relative Size of Stakes

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 May 2007 Last Revised: 06 May 2008
Guido Baltussen, Thierry Post and Martijn J. van den Assem
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Graduate School of Business of Nazarbayev University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Decision making under risk, Framing, Expected utility theory, Prospect theory

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Empirical Behavioral Finance

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 107 (Part B), pp. 421-427, November 2014
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2014
Doron Kliger, Martijn J. van den Assem and Remco C. J. Zwinkels
University of Haifa, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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behavioral finance, special issue, diversification heuristic, 1/n rule

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Number Preferences in Lotteries

Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 243-259, May 2016
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Tong V. Wang, Rogier Jan Dave Potter van Loon, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics - Institute for Advanced Economic Research, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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lotteries, gambling, number preference, color preference, implicit egotism, availability, position effect, law of small numbers, representativeness, gambler’s fallacy, hot-hand fallacy

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High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2023
Bouke Klein Teeselink, Dennie van Dolder, Martijn J. van den Assem and Jason Dana
King's College London, University of Essex - Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Yale School of Management
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backward induction, limited foresight, omission bias, quantal response equilibrium, subgame perfect Nash equilibrium

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Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show

American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. 402-407, May 2015
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 16 May 2015
Dennie van Dolder, Martijn J. van den Assem, Colin Camerer and Richard H. Thaler
University of Essex - Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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bargaining, negotiation, game show, natural experiment, equity theory, moral property rights, entitlements, fairness, concessions, first-mover advantage

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Can the Market Divide and Multiply? A Case of 807 Percent Mispricing

Review of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 35-44, 2022
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2022
Martijn J. van den Assem, Dennie van Dolder, Remco C. J. Zwinkels and Marc Schauten
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Essex - Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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law of one price, market efficiency, mispricing, limits to arbitrage, short-sale constraints

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Company Name Fluency and Stock Returns

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
Maurizio Montone, Martijn J. van den Assem and Remco C. J. Zwinkels
Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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fluency; investor recognition; company names; stock returns

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Malleable Lies: Communication and Cooperation in a High Stakes TV Game Show

Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 10, pp. 4795-4812, October 2019
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2020
Uyanga Turmunkh, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
IESEG School of Management (IESEG) - Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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deception, lying aversion, game show, prisoner’s dilemma, communication, cooperation, cheap talk

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Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 206, pp. 350-370, February 2023
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2023
Thomas Buser, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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gender gap, gender differences, competitiveness, willingness to compete

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Does Losing Lead to Winning? An Empirical Analysis for Four Sports

Management Science, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 513-532, January 2023
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2023
Bouke Klein Teeselink, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
King's College London, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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competition, sports, motivation, performance, regression discontinuity

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Random Incentive Systems in a Dynamic Choice Experiment

Experimental Economics, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 418-443, September 2012
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2012
Guido Baltussen, Thierry Post, Martijn J. van den Assem and Peter P. Wakker
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Graduate School of Business of Nazarbayev University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
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random incentive system, incentives, experimental measurement, risky choice, risk aversion, dynamic choice, tremble, within-subjects design, between-subjects design

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Incentives, Performance and Choking in Darts

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 169, pp. 38-52, January 2020
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2022
Bouke Klein Teeselink, Rogier Jan Dave Potter van Loon, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
King's College London, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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incentives, performance pressure, choking under pressure, darts

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Risky Choice in the Limelight

Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 318-332, May 2016
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 May 2012 Last Revised: 01 May 2016
Guido Baltussen, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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decision making under risk, risky choice, risk preferences, risk aversion, ambiguity aversion, limelight, accountability, public scrutiny, experience, game show, natural experiment, laboratory experiment, expected utility theory, prospect theory

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Path Dependence in Risky Choice: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Brain and Behavior

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 107 (Part B), pp. 566-581, November 2014
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2014
Kaisa Hytönen, Guido Baltussen, Martijn J. van den Assem, Vasily Klucharev, Alan G. Sanfey and A. Smidts
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), University of Arizona and Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)
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house money effect, break even effect, neuroeconomics, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), brain imaging, risky choice

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CEOs and CFOs on IPOs: The Process and Success of Going Public

De Economist, Vol. 165, No. 4, pp. 381-410, December 2017
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2017
Martijn J. van den Assem, Nico van der Sar, P.J.P.M. Versijp and P.J.P.M. Versijp
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) and Amsterdam Business SchoolErasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
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initial public offering, survey, going public, IPO process, IPO success, valuation, lead manager, syndicate, pre-marketing, book building

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The Wisdom of the Inner Crowd in Three Large Natural Experiments

Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 21-26, January 2018
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 01 May 2018
Dennie van Dolder and Martijn J. van den Assem
University of Essex - Department of Economics and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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wisdom of crowds, wisdom of the inner crowd, collective intelligence, forecasting

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A Critical Review of the Fair Value Settlement Procedure for Stock Options

Applied Finance Letters, Vol. 4, No. 1&2, pp. 20-25, 2015
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2016
Oege Pennin, Martijn J. van den Assem and Remco C. J. Zwinkels
Rabobank International, Netherlands, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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fair value, intrinsic value, stock option, implied volatility, option pricing, takeover

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Coöperatie in Spelshows (Cooperation in Game Shows)

Samenwerking in sociale dilemma's; Voorbeelden van Nederlands onderzoek, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 209-234, 2012
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2013
Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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experimental economics, natural experiment, game show, prisoner’s dilemma, cooperation, cooperative behavior, social behavior, social preferences, reciprocity, reciprocal behavior, context effects, anchoring

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The Evil Eye: Eye Gaze and Competitiveness in Social Decision Making

European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 388-396, April 2018
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2018
Mauro Giacomantonio, Jennifer Jordan, Francesca Federico, Martijn J. van den Assem and Dennie van Dolder
Sapienza University of Rome, University of Groningen, Sapienza University of Rome, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Essex - Department of Economics
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eye gaze, eye fixation, competition, competitive behavior

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De totstandkoming van de introductieprijs bij IPO’s (The Process of Setting the IPO Offer Price)

Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 223-232, May 2004
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 03 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2019
Martijn J. van den Assem, Nico van der Sar, Geert-Jan van Logtestijn, Roeland Haanen and Robartus Krol
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Bredius Corporate Finance, ABN AMRO and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Initial Public Offering, Survey, Going Public, IPO Process, Valuation, Pre-Marketing, Book Building