He defended his PhD thesis on the economics of water allocation in transboundary rivers at Wageningen University in 2009. Subsequently, he worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at VU University Amsterdam, before joining the Department of Spatial Economics in 2013. Ansink’s main research topic is environmental economics with a focus on water resource economics. Erik is generally interested in the allocation of scarce goods in both cooperative and strategic settings, using a variety of methods to analyze such allocations, including game theory, political economy, and experiments. He is a member of TI’s Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics (STEE) research group. Please click here for a list of Erik’s publications.