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Pieter Gautier is a Full Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and an Economics Research Fellow at Tinbergen Institute. He holds a PhD from VU Amsterdam (1997) and has held visiting positions at Georgetown University and MIT. His research focuses on search and matching models in labor, housing, and marriage markets, school assignment mechanisms, and competing mechanisms. He is a fellow at CEPR, CES/Ifo, and IZA, and co-founder of the SaM (Search and Matching) network. He served as an associate editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association (2008–2015) and has advised the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis on matching mechanisms for education and healthcare.
Education: PhD in Economics (1997), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Notable grants include the NWO VIDI Grant (2003) and co-recipient of the NWO MaGW Onderzoekstalent Grant (2013).
Research interests emphasize macro-labor economics, with key contributions to search theory, market design, and applied microeconomics. His work addresses policy-relevant topics like school assignment systems and labor market efficiency. He has supervised 8 PhD theses and contributes to public discourse via media commentary on labor market trends and economic policy.
Key achievements include designing matching algorithms for Dutch high school and medical residency placements, and his datasets (e.g., on unemployment search behavior) have been widely cited in policy discussions. His editorial roles and fellowships reflect his leadership in academic economics.
