Julius Ilciukas
Julius Ilciukas wins best PhD paper award at the 5th Baltic Economic Conference, organized by the Baltic Economic Association. The Baltic Economic Conference is the annual conference, rotating every year within the three Baltic countries. This year the conference took place in Riga, Latvia, organized by the Baltic Economic Association, in cooperation with the Bank of Latvia and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.
Julius Ilciukas
The jury, consisting of the representatives of SSE Riga and the Bank of Latvia, the Bank of Lithuania, the Bank of Estonia and Tallinn University of Technology, unanimously awarded this year's best paper to Julius Ilciukas for his paper on "Fertility and Parental Retirement”.
Evgenii Vladimirov
Evgenii Vladimirov received the Best Paper Award at the pre-conference for young scholars of the annual conference of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul (South Korea).
Yasmine van der Straten
The best single-authored paper was awarded with a prize of €1000, which is co-sponsored by the Sustainable Finance Lab. The paper for which the prize was awarded, “ Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Rising Climate Risk and Adaptation on Housing, Income, and Wealth” examines the relationship between financial constraints and optimal adaptation to physical climate risk at the household level and its dynamic consequences on housing, income, and wealth. The 1st European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop was organized by the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.), in collaboration with EDHEC, ESCP, KU Leuven, Warwick Business School, and the University of Augsburg.
Daan Opschoor, Terri van der Zwan
TI PhD students Daan Opschoor (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Terri van der Zwan (Erasmus University Rotterdam) are winners of the paper competition for PhD students organized in the context of the 2023 ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques.
Ion Lucas Saru
Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Finance PhD candidate under the supervision of research fellow Albert J. Menkveld,, won the best paper award in Investments and Asset Pricing at the FMA’s 2023 European Conference in Aalborg from June 7-9.
Chen Li
As of 1 June 2023, research fellow Chen Li has been appointed as Professor of Behavioural Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics. In her research, Li focuses on decision making under uncertainty and over time.
David Veenman
Research fellow David Veenman (University of Amsterdam) has been reappointed as Editor of the prestigious journal The Accounting Review.
Maarten Bosker, Paul Pelzl, Steven Poelhekke
Research fellow Steven Poelhekke of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has obtained an NWO Open Competition SSH-M grant of €400,000. The project “Restricting raw material exports” includes team members Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam and research fellow) and Paul Pelzl (NHH Norwegian School of Economics and former TI student).
Anne Boring
Anne Boring of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an NWO Open Competition SSH-M grant. Anne receives this grant, with a maximum budget of 400,000 euro, to enable her to work on her project about diversity in leadership positions.
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).
Zhiling Wang
Zhiling Wang of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained a NWO Open Competition SSH-XS grant. Zhiling receives this grant, with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro, to enable her to work on her project about the influence of student loans on mental health problems. In her SSH-XS project Zhiling Wang will research how the student loan system in Dutch higher education influences students’ mental health problems over the full trajectory of their study.
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).
Joel van der Weele
As of 1 January 2023, Joël van der Weele has been appointed Professor of Economic Psychology at the Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam. He will be working at the Microeconomics section.
Stan Koobs
PhD student Stan Koobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is jointly awarded the 2022 Gutierrez Toscano Prize for his excellent performance in the MSc in Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Hong Deng
Hong Deng (Erasmus University Rotterdam) won the best paper award (PhD track) at the Marketing Dynamics Conference 2022, which took place at Georgia State University on November 10-12. For the award the three best papers in the PhD track were selected based on the audience feedback and the committee evaluation.
Hong Deng
Hong Deng (Erasmus University Rotterdam) won the best paper award (PhD track) for her research on ‘Real-Time Personalization in Dynamic Environments’’, at the Marketing Dynamics Conference 2022, which took place at Georgia State University on November 10-12.
Else-Marie van den Herik
Research master student Else-Marie van den Herik is one of the two winners of the 2022 Lambers Student Excellence Award. The Award, which is sponsored by ARK Fonds of Erasmus Trustfonds, contains a monetary value of 3,500 euros and a medal.
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).
Gerard van der Meijden, Joelle Noailly, Steven Poelhekke
Joelle Noailly, Gerard van der Meijden and Steven Poelhekke of the Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have been awarded a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for the project “Critical Minerals and the Clean Energy Transition”.