David J. Kusterer

Assistant Professor of Marketing

Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Welcome!

I an an economist in marketing, working on topics related to digital marketing, digital economics, platform markets and market design.

Currently, I study reputation systems to understand and improve the functioning of digital platform markets. I want to deepen our understanding of how we rate and how we interpret other’s ratings, and what platforms can do to optimize the informativeness of feedback profiles.

I am also interested in subjective performance evaluations in the field of personnel economics.

Interests

Digital marketing
Digital economics
Platform markets
Reputation systems
Digital market design
Personnel economics
Experimental economics

Education

Dr. rer. pol. in Economics, 2014

University of Cologne
Diploma in Economics, 2009

University of Cologne

News

01/08/2024: New publication

Our paper Social Preferences and the Informativeness of Subjective Performance Evaluations (with Dirk Sliwka) got accepted at Management Science.

12/22/2023: New position 🎉

I am happy to announce that I will start as an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Rotterdam School of Management’s department of Marketing Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam in January 2024.

12/01/2022: Research grant

Today is the official start of our research project on fake reviews funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Together with co-PIs Matthias Greiff, Jan-Philipp Krügel and Fabian Paetzel and postdoc Janina Kraus, I am going to study the causes and effects of fake reviews and how to mitigate their negative impact. Find more information on the project’s website.

Publications

Social Preferences and the Informativeness of Subjective Performance Evaluations (David J. Kusterer, Dirk Sliwka)
Management Science, Articles in Advance.
Nominated for Walther Rathenau Award (GEABA)

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Rate this transaction: Coordinating mappings in market feedback systems (Gary E. Bolton, Alina Ferecatu, David J. Kusterer)
Management Science 70. no. 1 (2024): 567-588.

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Public Goods, Property Rights, and Investment Incentives: An Experimental Investigation (David J. Kusterer, Patrick W. Schmitz)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 177 (2020): 514-532.

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Inflated Reputations: Uncertainty, Leniency, and Moral Wiggle Room in Trader Feedback Systems (Gary E. Bolton, David J. Kusterer, Johannes Mans)
Management Science 65. no. 11 (2019): 4951-5448.

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The Management of Innovation: Experimental Evidence (David J. Kusterer, Patrick W. Schmitz)
Games and Economic Behavior 104 (2017): 706-725.

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Public-Private Partnerships versus Traditional Procurement: An Experimental Investigation (Eva I. Hoppe, David J. Kusterer, Patrick W. Schmitz)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 89 (2013): 145-166.

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Conflicting Tasks and Moral Hazard: Theory and Experimental Evidence (Eva I. Hoppe, David J. Kusterer)
European Economic Review 55, no. 8 (2011): 1094-1108.
Reinhard Selten Award (Verein für Socialpolitik)

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Behavioral Biases and Cognitive Reflection (Eva I. Hoppe, David J. Kusterer)
Economics Letters 110, no. 2 (2011): 97-100.

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Working Papers

Searching for Evidence: Less can be More (Florian Gössl, David J. Kusterer, Achim Wambach)

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Work in Progress

Self-evaluations and Subjective Performance Evaluations (David J. Kusterer, Marina Schröder, Dirk Sliwka)

Fake Reviews in Digital Markets: Analysis and Solutions (Matthias Greiff, Janina Kraus, Jan-Philipp Krügel, David J. Kusterer, Fabian Paetzel)

Trust in AI Recommendations on Electronic Markets: Experimental Evidence (David J. Kusterer)

Coordinating Rating Mappings for Optimal Incentive Provision with Strategic Sellers (Gary E. Bolton, Alina Ferecatu, David J. Kusterer)

Cognitive Reflection, Risk Aversion, and Gender: Experimental Evidence (David J. Kusterer, Patrick W. Schmitz)

Other Publications

Reproducibility in Management Science (Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes, Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration)
Management Science 70. no. 3 (2024): 1343-2022.

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