Cars Hommes

Early life

Cars Hommes was born on 10 April 1960. In 1985 he obtained his Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Groningen while working as a University Lecturer at its Department of Economics. He worked there as such until 1987 and a year after became its Ph.D. student. Only after he obtained Ph.D. in mathematical economics from the same place in 1991, did he became an assistant professor at the same department of his alma mater, a position which he kept till 1999.

Early career

In 1994 Hommes becomes a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he collaborates with William A. Brock in the study of heterogeneous expectations and complex economic systems in 1995. In July 1997 he became a visiting professor at Stanford University and couple of months later moved to University of Vienna where he remained till 1998 after which he pursued career as a director of the Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance.

Professional career

From 2002 to 2006 Hommes holds the same position at the St. Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy and a year prior goes to Peking University from which he returns to St. Anna. Between 2007 and 2012 he accepts a position as the head of the Department of Quantitative Economics at the University of Amsterdam and for a short time in between those years abandons it in July 2009 because he becomes an honorary professor at the University of Technology Sydney. He returns to Amsterdam University for one brief year and in 2013 moved to the United States where in February 2013 he becomes a visitor to Columbia University. Acknowledging his position in New York's many university choices, he moves to New York University and spends there as a visiting guest professor from February to May 2014. In 2014 he was elected as President of the Society of Computational Economics and is currently a member of the Institute of New Economic Thinking and the International Network on Expectational Coordination.

Editor

As an editor, Cars Hommes works along with William A. Brock and publishes many of the findings relating to economics and finance in Behavioural & Experimental Macroeconomics, Econometrica and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He also publishes a chapter Heterogeneous Agents Models in Economics and Finance in the Handbook of Computational Economics in 2006. In 2014 he participated at the conference of George Soros and prior to it had published an article called Reflexivity, expectations feedback and almost self-fulfilling equilibria: economic theory, empirical evidence and laboratory experiments which appeared in the Journal of Economic Methodology and caught Soros by surprise because it questioned Soros's ideas for US economy.