Edward Van Wesep
Edward Van Wesep studies contracting and voting, in theory and practice. Topics in contracting include severance agreements, signing bonuses, employee risk sharing and delegation of authority while topics in voting include defensive politics and alternatives to "majority rules" voting procedures.
Dr. Van Wesep teaches courses in microeconomics, game theory and contract theory.
He co-founded the financial services firm Risk Allocation Systems based in Redwood City, Calif. The company facilitates lower cost lending to underserved borrowers via propriatary risk mitigation contracting technology. He also worked at Capital One Financial in Virginia and McKinsey & Co. in Chicago.
He received his PhD in economics in 2007 from Stanford University and a ScB in applied mathematics economics in 2003 from Brown University, graduating magna cum laude and Sigma Xi with departmental honors.