Bo Andree received the World Bank Spot Award
Bo Andree
Bo Andree (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the World Bank Spot Award for work on predicting food crises Granting Organisation: World Bank
270 Events
-
-
Journal of Economic Theory selects paper by Peter Wakker as one of 50 most prominent papers
Peter Wakker
As part of its 50th anniversary, the Journal of Economic Theory presents a special issue that includes the 50 most influential papers the journal has published over the years. One of these selected papers is "An index of loss aversion", written by Peter Wakker (Erasmus School of Economics) together with Veronika Köbberling.
-
Xuan Wang ECB Young Economist's competition finalist
Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is ECB Young Economist's competition finalist. Every year the European Central Bank invites young economists to enter its research competition. Finalists are invited to the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking, and the overall winner is awarded €10,000.
-
An NWO VICI grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Roger Laeven
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.
-
Joop Hartog Dissertation Award for Merrick Li
Zhen Li
TI alumnus Merrick (Zhen) Li has been awarded Joop Hartog Dissertation Award for the best PhD thesis at the Amsterdam School of Economics defended in 2018 or 2019. The award consists of a medal and a cash prize of EUR 2,500. The prize has been awarded biannually since 2008.
-
Global Marketing SIG Award for Martijn de Jong
Martijn de Jong
Martijn de Jong, Professor of Marketing Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam is the winner of the 2020 Global Marketing SIG Award for his article “A Global Investigation into the Constellation of Consumer Attitudes Toward Global and Local Products.”
-
EMAC Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award for Stefan Stremersch
Stefan Stremersch
Stefan Stremersch (Erasmus School of Economics) is the winner of the EMAC Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award 2020. The two main criteria for the award are: (1) outstanding marketing scholarship as reflected in extensive, impactful research contributions, and (2) outstanding contributions to the European Marketing Academy.
-
Sakip Sabanci International Research Award for Hans Koster
Hans Koster
For his paper on 'The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England', Hans (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amserdam) received the Sakip Sabanci International Research Award from the Sabanci University in Istanbul. This year, the award acknowledges studies concentrating on the government's role in and economic policies related to the wide range of topics from inequality to income distribution, climate change to energy, traffic congestion to air pollution, transportation to housing. The prize amounts to 10.000 $.
-
Thomas Buser ranks first in 'Economentop 40' 2019
Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser, Tinbergen Institute alumnus and research fellow ranked first in Dutch ‘Economentop 40’ 2019.
-
Esad Smajlbegovic receives the Top Talent Researcher Award
Esad Smajlbegovic
Esad Smajlbegovic (Erasmus School of Economics) has been awarded the 2019 Top Talent Researcher Award (together with Ying Gan and Krzysztof Postek). The award is awarded by the Management Team of Erasmus School of Economics.
-
Societal Impact Award for Thomas Peeters
Thomas Peeters
Thomas Peeters (Erasmus School of Economics) received the 2019 Societal Impact Award for combining excellent research with solid policy advisory work in the field of sports economics. The award is granted by the Erasmus School of Economics Management Team.
-
An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 2,000,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to Shaul Shalvi, Professor of Behavioural Ethics at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) for his research project "Responsible sharing: Paving the path for transparent trust". Project description: The collaborative economy is estimated to add €160-€572 billion to the EU economy. Faced with blurry definitions in this emerging market, regulators use a top-down approach and introduce regulations that often fail to consider users’ behaviour. Although considerable knowledge on top-down regulatory solutions for the collaborative economy is accumulating, little is known about the bottom-up psychological factors driving the collaborative economy users’ behaviour. Online platforms rely and promote trust between users and service providers. For responsible sharing, however, trust is necessary but not sufficient. Only when trust is encouraged transparently can users share responsibly. TRUSTPATH will assess, if: (1) users are aware of, or motivated to learn about, the side effects of trade; (2) platforms’ promotion of trust increases users’ information neglect; and (3) transparent environments reduce information neglect and increase responsible sharing. Building on my expertise on trust and cooperation, and using insights from psychology, management, and economics, I will develop and test a novel psychological theory of how people use the collaborative economy: Transparency Based Trust theory (TBT). TBT’s novel hypothesis suggests trust encouraged without transparency leads users to neglect the negative side effects trade has on others. TRUSTPATH innovates by developing a novel methodology (the collaborative economy game) and using cutting-edge technologies (large-scale experiments). Support for TBT implies a major step forward in the systematic understanding of the collaborative economy in the social sciences, and the psychological mechanisms underlying users’ behaviour on platforms like Airbnb, Uber, and others. TRUSTPATH will contribute to establish a new field of study: the psychology of the collaborative economy; inform policymakers seeking to regulate the collaborative economy; and inform companies seeking to promote responsible sharing among users.
-
‘Nobel Laureates Meet Policy Makers’
Eric Bartelsman
To mark the 50th anniversary of Jan Tinbergen’s Nobel Prize, a series of conversations between Nobel Laureates and Dutch policy makers was set up, led by Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Esther-Mirjam Sent (Radboud University). The resulting publication appeared in the series KVS Preadviezen.
-
KRX Outstanding Paper Award for Albert J. Menkveld
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."
-
Outstanding Simulation Publication Award for Bernd Heidergott and co-authors
Bernd Heidergott
The winners of the INFORMS Simulation Society Outstanding Publication Award for 2019 are Yijie Peng, Michael Fu, Jian-Qiang Hu and Bernd Heidergott for their article titled "A New Unbiased Stochastic Derivative Estimator for Discontinuous Sample Performances with Structural Parameters". Bernd Heidergott is Professor of Stochastic Optimization at the School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
-
The 2019 Engle Prize was awarded to Julia Schaumburg
Julia Schaumburg
The 2019 Engle Prize, awarded by the Journal of Financial Econometrics, has been awarded to Julia Schaumburg (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit). Julia received the prize for her article "Beyond dimension two: A test for higher-order tail risk” (2016, co-authors: Carsten Bormann and Melanie Schienle). The Engle Prize was awarded to a young scholar, for best paper published in 2016, 2017 and 2018 volumes.
-
An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Stephanie van Hinke
Stephanie von Hinke
Stephanie von Hinke, Professor of Health Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council, to work on the project "Developmental Origins: exploring the Nature-Nurture Interplay".
-
An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,335,536) has been awarded to Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser, Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council for his project “Competition, Time Pressure, Public Speaking and Multitasking: The Role of Willingness and Ability to Cope with Pressure in Explaining Individual Differences and Inequality in Career Outcomes”.
-
Shaul Shalvi has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award. The biennial Jane Beattie Award is awarded by the European Association for Decision Making, in recognition of “innovation in decision research”. Shalvi received the award for his innovative research in ethical decision making.
-
NWO VerDuS SURF Pop Up-funding for Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen
Eric Koomen, Henri de Groot
VerDuS SURF Pop Up-subsidie awarded to Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit. VerDuS is the Dutch acronym for Connecting Sustainable Cities. Within this NWO knowledge initiative VerDuS, scientific researchers in collaboration with experts from the field develop knowledge to respond to issues such as urbanisation, spatial planning, mobility and transport.