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Pieter Gautier is a Professor of Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and holds Research Fellowships at CEPR, IZA, and the Tinbergen Institute. He earned his Ph.D. from VU Amsterdam in 1997 and has held visiting positions at MIT and Georgetown University. His research focuses on search theory, labor markets, housing markets, and market design, with notable contributions to understanding search frictions, competitive mechanisms, and school assignment systems. He has published extensively in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economic Studies.
His research interests include assignment models, directed search, sorting, and structural estimation of housing market models. Key themes in his work address how search and matching processes influence economic outcomes in labor, housing, and marriage markets. Gautier’s recent work explores spatial search dynamics, competitive equilibrium foundations, and the empirical performance of school assignment mechanisms.
- Education: Ph.D. in Economics (1997), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Fellowships: CEPR, CES-Ifo, CSE, IZA, SAM (co-founder), Tinbergen Institute
His publications analyze topics like job search assistance policies, marriage market dynamics, and the impact of employment protection laws on firm behavior. Gautier’s work often combines theoretical models with empirical analysis, contributing to both academic theory and policy design.
