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Prior to joining the Columbia Business School faculty in July 2008, Wouter was an associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business from 2005-2008, where he taught Competitive Strategy and Organizational Strategy. He earned a Bachelor in management and applied sciences from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1997 and a Ph.D. in economics from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Toulouse University in 2000, after which he became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Wouter's research interests center on the economics of organizations, specifically centralization versus decentralization, incentive design, the organizational structure of multi-divisional firms and the impact of competition on business organizations. His research has been published in leading journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Finance. He has also served as a research affiliate for the Center for Economic Policy Research and as an Associate Editor for the Review of Network Economies and the Journal of the European Economic Association.

• Spring 2009
  Economics of Strategic Behavior
  

When Does Coordination Require Centralization? In American Economic Review (2008) Coauthor(s): Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein, Niko Matouschek

Centralization versus Decentralization: An Application to Price Setting by a Multi-Market Firm In Journal of the European Economic Association (2008) Coauthor(s): Ricardo Alonso, Wouter Dessein, Niko Matouschek

Adaptive Organizations In Journal of Political Economy (2006) Coauthor(s): Wouter Dessein, Tano Santos

Information and Control in Ventures and Alliances In The Journal of Finance (2005) Coauthor(s): Wouter Dessein

Network Competition with Heterogeneous Customers and Calling Patterns In Information Economics and Policy (2004) Coauthor(s): Wouter Dessein

Network Competition in Nonlinear Pricing In RAND Journal of Economics (2003) Coauthor(s): Wouter Dessein

Authority and Communication in Organizations In Review of Economic Studies (2002) Coauthor(s): Wouter Dessein

Organizing for Synergies In Working Paper (2008) Coauthor(s): Wouter Dessein, Luis Garicano, Robert Gertner