The postdoc is part of an ERC Starting Grant.

Principal investigator (PI): Aurélien Baillon, http://aurelienbaillon.com/

You will be working with two PhD students, one other postdoc, and the PI and you will be part of the behavioral economics group at Erasmus University Rotterdam (https://www.eur.nl/ese/behec/). You will have your own travelling budget for conferences and research visits (€4000 per year).

Three key papers for the project are:

Prelec, D. (2004). A Bayesian truth serum for subjective data. Science, 306(5695), 462-466.

Prelec, D., Seung, H. S., & McCoy, J. (2017). A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem. Nature, 541(7638), 532-535.

Baillon, A. (2017). Bayesian markets to elicit private information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(30), 7958–7962.

• You have completed your PhD (or will do so before the starting date) in economics, decision theory, or mathematical psychology.

• You are a theorist with some interest in data collection (experiments, surveys).

• You work in at least one of the following fields: decision theory / game theory / information theory / mechanism design.

• It is a pro if you have shown interest in at least one of the following topics: expertise / wisdom of the crowd / truth telling.

You will be hired for 3 years, starting on January 1, 2018 at the latest.

You will be paid according to scale 11.0 from:

https://www.eur.nl/fileadmin/ASSETS/medewerkers/Arbeidsvoorwaarden/

Salarisschalen_per_1_januari_2017.pdf

(The document indicates gross salaries. Every year, the gross salary increases by one step, to 11.1 in the second year, and 11.2 in the third year.)

If applicable, we will apply for the 30% tax rule for you. See:

https://www.eur.nl/english/staff/employment_conditions/

salary/30_tax_ruling_as_of_1_january_2013/

General conditions of employment can be found here: https://www.eur.nl/english/staff/employment_conditions/