Dr. Casper De Vries

Biography

Casper G. de Vries holds the Witteveen Chair in Monetary Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute and serves as a member of the Scientific Council for the Dutch Government (WRR) and as an advisor to Dutch pension funds. He received his graduate training at Purdue University and has held positions at Texas A&M University and KU Leuven. He has been a visiting scholar at various European and American research institutes and central banks, including Chapman University. He served as Vice Dean for research and education at the Erasmus School of Economics and was a crown member of the Dutch Socio-Economic Council (SER). His research focuses on international monetary issues, particularly foreign exchange rate determination, exchange rate risk, issues surrounding the Euro, and financial market risks. He specializes in calculating risks associated with extreme events using statistical extreme value analysis and is interested in contest auction theory and applied lobbying theory. He has published widely in leading internationally refereed journals, including the International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Theory, and the American Economic Review.

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