Marina Friedrich
Marina Friedrich (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Climetrics: Bringing together econometrics and climate sciences'. Friedrich wants to make econometric methods more suitable and accessible for climate researchers, to study climate problems.
Matthijs Korevaar
Matthijs Korevaar (Erasmus University Rotterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'The effects of rental housing policy on the housing conditions and finances of households'. By combining cutting-edge policy evaluation methods with large linked datasets, Korevaar wants to identify causal effects of various housing policies on a wide range of outcomes.
Thomas Douenne
Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant (2025-2029) of €320.000 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'On the design of climate policy: improving fairness and public support'. With this project Douenne aims to answer how to design climate policies that are fair and supported by the public.
Nadine Ketel
The prestigious H. Gregg Lewis Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics during 2022–23 has been awarded to research fellow and alumna Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and co-author Anna Bindler (University of Cologne, Germany) for “Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization,” which appeared in the October 2022 issue of the journal.
Yasmine van der Straten
Yasmine van der Straten (University of Amsterdam) is finalist of the ECB Young Economist Prize. This research competition offers talented students the chance to share their fresh perspectives on today’s challenges. Finalists are invited to the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking, and the overall winner is awarded €10,000.
Jonne Guyt
Jonne Guyt (University of Amsterdam) has won the 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for his co-authored article 'A War on Sugar'.
Roger Prudon
Roger has been awarded the Rubicon grant for his research project 'Treating the untreated: Reforms of the Dutch mental healthcare system'.
Francesco Capozza
Alumnus Francesco Capozza has won the 2024 Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award in public economics for the paper "Who Should Get Money? Estimating Walfare Weights in the US."
Elisabeth Leduc
The European Commission has awarded candidate fellow Elisabeth Leduc (Erasmus University Rotterdam) a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research project on “Institutional Discrimination in (Explicit) Action: How Policies Shape Inequalities”.
Chintan Amrit
Best paper award for paper: Su, Yuanyuan; Amrit, Chintan, “A predictive Model for analysing Chad’s food security”, At the IFIP 8.3 Open Conference for Decision Support. The paper was fast-tracked to the Journal of Decision Systems
Chintan Amrit
Ghosh, Mayukh, Amrit Chintan and Gromicho, Joaquim “A Decision Support Tool for Domain-Driven Mobile Clinic Routing: A Case Study in Kenya”, Nominated for the best paper in the SIGDSA 2024 workshop (part of ICIS 2024).
Jos Akkermans
Academy of Management Careers Division Mid-Career Scholarship award. The AOM Careers Division Mid-Career Career Scholarship Award is granted to a scholar whose independent contributions have had and promise to continue to have la asting impact on the careers field.
Arturas Juodis, Simas Kucinskas
Simas Kučinskas and Artūras Juodis were granted the 2023 Vladas Jurgutis Award (€10,000) of the Bank of Lithuania for their research on an innovative system for noise quantification in economic expectations.
Eva Janssens
Eva Janssens received the ASE Dissertation Award for her dissertation 'Estimation and identification in macroeconomic models with incomplete markets'. Janssens was supervised by research fellows Frank Kleibergen and Christian Stoltenberg. The ASE Dissertation Award is awarded for the best PhD thesis at the Amsterdam School of Economics and supersedes the Joop Hartog Dissertation Award.
Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi, Wendy Günther
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi and Wendy Günther (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) a research grant of one million euro. With the grant, they will be able to investigate how novel algorithmic technologies can be applied in medical diagnosis through collaborative learning among stakeholders.
Maarten Lindeboom
Research fellow Maarten Lindeboom will start on January 1, 2024 with his appointment as an advisory member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). The Council of Ministers approved the nomination of the new WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy) advisory council for the period 2023-2027 in 2022, and in doing so also approved the appointment of the new council member Lindeboom.
Hande Karabiyik
Honorable mention for Hande Karabiyik (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in the Econometric Reviews’ Best Paper competition (2021-2022).
Martijn de Jong
The foundation Porticus has granted research fellow Martijn de Jong with a grant to develop an AI-driven, domain-specific chatbot to engage young people (ages 18-25) in Europe, in the field of Catholic spiritual formation.
Eva Janssens
Eva Janssens (Federal Reserve Board) received an Honorable Mention from the KVS for her thesis 'Estimation and identification in macroeconomic models with incomplete markets'. Research fellow Christian Stoltenberg acted as supervisor. Eva received the Honorable Mention during the award of the KVS Medal, which is awarded every three years (previously every two years) to the student who has written and defended the best dissertation in economics during the preceding period.
Yun Xiao
Yun Xiao is the winner of the prestigious KVS Medal (‘Penning’) 2023 for best PhD thesis defended in the field of economics at a Dutch university in the past three years. Yun won the medal for her PhD thesis entitled ‘Fertility, Parental Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility' defended on September 27, 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Research fellow Hessel Oosterbeek and Pauline Rossi acted as supervisors.