David Kusterer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Marketing Management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University. David currently studies reputation systems to understand and improve the functioning of digital platform markets. His research improves our understanding of how consumers rate and how interpret other’s ratings, and what platforms can do to optimize the informativeness of feedback profiles. He is also interested in the factors that shape subjective performance evaluations in the field of personnel economics.

David holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Cologne and a Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Economics from the University of Cologne. 

David is a member of the "Digitalisation, new ways of working and the new employee" theme in the interdisciplinary Erasmus Sectorplan SSH-Breed.