Bastian Westbrock
E-mail: [email protected] § Website: uu.nl/staff/BWestbrock
Utrecht School of Economics § Kriekenpitplein 21-22, 3584 EC Utrecht § The Netherlands
Fields of Interest
Social and economic networks § International Economics § Industrial Organization
Education
Ph.D. in Economics from Utrecht University, 2010, Thesis title “Inter-firm networks: economic and
sociological perspectives”
Promoters: Stephanie Rosenkranz and Vincent Buskens
Committee: Sanjeev Goyal, Jose Luis Moraga-González, and Rob Alessie
MSc in Business Economics, Mannheim University, 2004
Work experience
Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, since 2010, tenured since 2014
Scientific Publications
Westbrock (2010): “Natural Concentration in Industrial Research Collaboration”, RAND Journal of
Economics, 41(2).
Bojanowski, Corten, and Westbrock (2012): “The Structure and Dynamics of the Global Network of
Inter-Firm R&D Partnerships 1989–2002”, The Journal of Technology Transfer,
37(6).
Kamphorst, Mendys-Kamphorst, and Westbrock (2013): “Rational Signals of Weakness in a Market
Entry Game”, The Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 169(3).
Work in progress
“Multiplicity of Mental Models and Types of Organizational Learning: Evidence from Selecting Legal
Advisors in M&As” joint with K. Mühlfeld and U. Weitzel, 3rd round revise &
resubmit at Journal of Management.
“A Theory of Trade in a Global Production Network”, joint with M. Bosker.
“Fairness concerns in networks: theory and experimental evidence” joint with S. Rezaei Khavas, S.
Rosenkranz, and U. Weitzel.
“Competitiveness and task difficulty: Are men still more competitive when tasks are difficult?”, joint
with B. Hoyer, T. van Huizen, L. Keijzer, and S. Rosenkranz.
“Demand Participation in Electricity Balancing Markets”, joint with E. Fumagalli.
Experience at Bachelor level:
Teaching experience
Economics of Innovation (honour’s class)
Advanced Mathematics
Industrial Organization
Experience at Research Master’s level:
Game Theory
PhD students
Sarah Rezaei Khavas (co-promoted) on “Fairness concerns and cooperation in context”, defended in
October 2016. Positioning: Milliman Netherlands.
Maryam Imanpour (daily supervisor) on “Money Laundering Networks”, expected defence date:
September 2017
Refereeing activities
Review of Economics and Statistics § Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization § Journal of Regional Science & Urban Economics
Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics
Professional activities
Seminar presentations:
Erasmus University Rotterdam § University of Stockholm
University of Bielefeld § University of Groningen
Conference presentations: ZEW Energy Conference (Mannheim)
CTN network workshops (Louvain la Neuve, Brussels, Venice)
European Research Workshop in International Trade (Rotterdam)
Worldbank Conference on Global Value Chains (Geneva)
Workshop on Networks and Trade (Leuven)
EEA-ESEM congress (Toulouse, Milan)
SAET conference (Paris)
EARIE conference (Stockholm)
Languages
German (native) § English (fluent) § Dutch (fluent)
Prof. Stephanie Rosenkranz
School of Economics
Utrecht University
Kriekenpitplein 21-22
3584 EC Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: 0031-30-2539806
[email protected]
Prof. Maarten Bosker
Department of Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: 0031-10-4081431
[email protected]
References
Prof. Avner Shaked
Economics Department
Bonn University
Adenauerallee 24
53113 Bonn
Germany
[email protected]