Dr. Thomas Post

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Thomas Post


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Maastricht University
School of Business and Economics
Department of Finance  

Tongersestraat 53
6211 LM Maastricht

Email:T.Post@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Tel: 043 38 83859

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Ik ben Associate Professor of Finance aan de Universiteit Maastricht en Open Universiteit en tevens verbonden aan Netspar. Mijn onderzoek houdt zich bezig met behavioral household finance. Ik ben (1) geïnteresseerd in het beter begrijpen van hoe huishoudens financiële beslissingen nemen (b.v. sparen, beleggen, en annuïteiten) en (2) het design van nudges en interventies om financiële beslissingen te veranderen.

Werkervaring

  • sinds 2023 Maastricht University, Associate Professor of Finance
  • sinds 2023 Director, Marketing-Finance Exchange Center of Excellence
  • sinds 2019 Open University, Associate Professor of Finance
  • 2009 - 2022 Maastricht University, Assistant Professor of Finance
  • sinds 2009 Netspar, Research Fellow
  • Juni 2013 University of British Columbia, Visitor
  • Juli 2011 University of New South Wales, Visiting Fellow
  • 2006 – 2009 Dr. Wolfgang Schieren-Lehrstuhl für Versicherungs- und Risikomanagement, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Post-Doc (Habilitand); C.A.S.E. - Center for Applied Statistics and Economics; Collaborative Research Center 649
  • Augustus 2006 – December 2006 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance
  • 2003 – 2006 Dr. Wolfgang Schieren-Lehrstuhl für Versicherungs- und Risikomanagement, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, PhD student
  • 2002 - 2003 KPMG, Junior Controller Verzekeringen

Universitaire Opleiding

  • Habilitation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2009
  • Dr. rer. pol., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2006, titel van proefschrift: "Optimale Altersvorsorgestrategien: Eine Lebenszyklusanalyse" (Optimal Financial Planning Strategies: A Life-Cycle Analysis), abstract
  • Diplom-Kaufmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2001

Geselecteerde Publicaties

Working Papers

  • Cognitive constraints, planned savings and downstream economic behaviors (with Zihan Ye, Xiaopeng Zou, and Shenglan Chen)
  • When, how and for whom evaluative labels and consumption baskets increase pension savings (with Jenna Barret, Lisa Brüggen, and Peiran Jiao)
  • Norms in Behavioral Interventions: Peer or Anchoring Effects? (met Pieter F. E. Verhallen, Lisa Brüggen, en Gaby Odekerken-Schröder)
  • Friends with Benefits: Strengthening Peer Effects through Aligning Consumer Traits with Reference Group Attributes (met Pieter F. E. Verhallen, Lisa Brüggen, en Gaby Odekerken-Schröder)
  • The U-Turn Effect in Social Norm Interventions: Individual-to-peer Behavior Gap as Endogenous Driver of Social Identification with Peers, and its Consequence on Peer Effects (met Pieter F. E. Verhallen)

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