An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva receives a Vidi grant for her research project 'Robots at work: Bridging the gap between the robotic development and workplace use'.
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva receives a Vidi grant for her research project 'Robots at work: Bridging the gap between the robotic development and workplace use'.
Albert J. Menkveld, Ion Lucas Saru
PhD candidate Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) won the Best Paper Award at the Derivative Markets Conference 2023 in Auckland, New-Zealand. The paper "Who knows? Information Differences between Trader Types" is co-authored with research fellow Albert J. Menkveld
Aleksandar Andonov
Aleksandar Andonov has been appointed Professor of Financial Institutions and Portfolio Management at the Amsterdam Business School (ABS), University of Amsterdam as of 1 July 2023.
David Veenman
Research fellow David Veenman (University of Amsterdam) has been reappointed as Editor of the prestigious journal The Accounting Review.
Albert J. Menkveld
Research fellow Albert J. Menkveld, professor of finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is one of the eighteen new selected members of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Carlos Riumallo Herl, Esad Smajlbegovic, Stefan Obernberger
Stefan Obernberger, Carlos Riumallo Herl and Esad Smajlbegovic obtain a NWO Open Competition SSH-XS grant. They receive this grant with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro to enable their proposal for curiosity-driven, fundamental research in the research fields covered by the NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).
Albert J. Menkveld, Ion Lucas Saru, Shihao Yu
Albert J. Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and PhD students Shihao Yu (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Columbia University, United States) and Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been selected for a contract award in the Alberto Giovannini Programme for Data Science by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), together with the European Central Bank (ECB).
Albert J. Menkveld
For the year 2021, over half of the top 40 consists of TI Research Fellows. Moreover, the top 3 consists of TI research fellows entirely: Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit), Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit) and Patrick Verwijmeren (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Albert Menkveld now ranks first for the second year in a row.
Anne Opschoor
Anne Opschoor receives an NWO Vidi grant for his research 'Heterogeneity in extreme risks in high dimensions' Uncertainties like covid19 or Brexit have potentially different effects on countries and industries. Most contemporary models cannot describe such heterogeneity sufficiently well. This research develops new models with more heterogeneity in risk responses and investigates the economic differentiation and robustness of different countries and industries in Europe.
Enrico Perotti, Eric Bartelsman
Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) and Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been granted NWO funding for their research project 'Understanding the role of IT progress and globalization in economic growth' in the NWO Open Competition - Social Sciences and Humanities. Project: A slowing global economy and steady rise in inequality are threatening social cohesion. The project investigates the role of IT progress and globalization in causing unequal economic growth, and explains puzzling trends in capital and labor markets. It will guide a sustainable policy for economic and financial stability. With the NWO Open Competition-SSH, NWO Social Sciences and Humanities wants to offer researchers the opportunity to carry out research into a subject of their own choosing without any thematic constraints. The funding instrument is intended for senior researchers who may no longer apply for a Veni, Vidi and Vici grant within the Talent Scheme.
Albert J. Menkveld
Albert J. Menkveld ranked first in the 2020 Dutch Economists Top 40. The Economist Top 40 (economentop) is a list of the best publishing economists in the Netherlands published annually by ESB magazine (Economisch Statistische Berichten). The list is based on all peer-reviewed published articles by Dutch economists between January 2015 and December 2019. In total 22 TI fellows are listed in the 2020 rankings: Albert J. Menkveld (1), Thomas Buser (3), Peter Wakker (6), Patrick Verwijmeren (7), Siem Jan Koopman (8), Bas van der Klaauw (9), Andre Lucas (10), Aurelien Baillon (11), Pieter Gautier (12), Cars Hommes (15), Han Bleichrodt (17), Jos van Ommeren (18), Theo Offerman (19), Jan van Ours (20), Arthur Schram (21), Utz Weitzel (22), Hans Koster (24), Olivier Marie (26), Hessel Oosterbeek (27), Erik Verhoef (30), Vladimir Vladimirov (33), Sjoerd van Bekkum (37),
Roger Laeven
NWO has granted a VICI grant to Roger Laeven, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam for his research project "21st-Century Risks: Tackling the Complex Interplay of Risks in Time and Space". This research project will develop innovative concepts, methods and techniques to model and measure 21st-century global risks like a financial, climate or cyber crisis.
Albert J. Menkveld
The Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives has awarded the KRX Outstanding Paper Award" ($1,500) to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper "Central Counterparty Exposure in Stressed Markets."
Utz Weitzel
The Financial Management Journal has granted the Top 3 paper award to Utz Weitzel (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper: “Sold Below Value? Why Takeover Offers Can Have Negative Premiums."
Albert J. Menkveld
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS) has awarded the Best Paper Award to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper "Crowded Positions: An Overlooked Systemic Risk for Central Clearing Parties" received."
Enrico Perotti, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization have awarded the 2018 annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, & Enrico C. Perotti (University of Amsterdam) for their article "The Emergence of the Corporate Form."
Albert J. Menkveld
NWO awarded a VICI grant to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) for his research project "Financial Techology (FinTech's) Disruptive Impact on Financial Markets: Social Costs and Benefits of an Emerging New Architecture”. Albert’s research focuses on robotic trading. Robots facilitate trade, but increasingly act as traders themselves. Is this new architecture better than the old one? And what are the risks involved?
Albert J. Menkveld, Shihao Yu
Research Master student Shihao Yu has been awarded a five-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Social Costs and Benefits of Financial Technology (FinTech)". The project will be supervised by research fellow Albert J. Menkveld, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Albert J. Menkveld
Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Norges Bank Investment Management grant ($860,000) to fund three-year research program on "Transparency and Financial Market Quality," jointly with Carole Comerton-Forde (UNSW), Terrence Hendershott (UC Berkeley), Charles Jones (Columbia U), and Christine Parlour (UC Berkeley). Granting Organisation: Norges Bank.
Martijn van den Assem
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Martijn van den Assem (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) for his project "Economic behaviour on TV". In this project Martijn studies how people make decisions when there is a lot of money at stake, using game shows on TV to analyse economic behaviour.