Bastian Ravesteijn has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000).
Bastian Ravesteijn
NWO awarded a VENI grant to Bastian Ravesteijn, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, for his project “Improving access to mental health care”.
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NWO Veni Grant warded to Aylin Aydinli
Aydin Aydinli
Aylin Aydinli receives a Veni grant for her research project 'From Cash to Trash: How Price Promotions Impact Food Waste'.
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NWA-IDG Funding for Coen van de Kraats
Coen van de Kraats
Awarded by NWO in the category Dutch National Research Agenda - Idea Generator, for his project "Origins of the Opportunity Gap: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data on Childhood Health and Development".
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Elbert Dijkgraaf and Emiel Maasland have won the Energy Journal Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award
Elbert Dijkgraaf
Elbert Dijkgraaf (Erasmus School of Economics) has won the Energy Journal Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award, together with Emiel Maasland. The prize was awarded for their paper on the effectiveness of feed-in tariffs in the development of solar photovoltaics. The IAEE’s Energy Economics Education Foundation instituted a Best Paper Award for the paper designated as the most outstanding of the papers published in The Energy Journal the previous year
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An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Francisco Blasques
Francisco Blasques
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Francisco Blasques (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his research project: "Econometric methods for incorrect models".
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Research grant for Wendy Janssens from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000)
Wendy Janssens
Research grant from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000) to organize an international brainstorm workshop on “Maternal health and digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa”
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An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Jan Stoop
Jan Stoop
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Jan Stoop (Erasmus School of Economics) for his project "Measuring poverty with envelopes". This project deepens our knowledge on poverty using novel field experiments.
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An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, UvA), for his project "Sharing responsibly on the on-demand economy".
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World Bank Grant for Bo Andree
Bo Andree
Bo Andree (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Nadia Piffaretti (Senior Economist at the World Bank) won a grant with their proposal to develop and pilot methods to nowcast real-time conditions in fragile countries. The grant was awarded under the Disruptive Technology Initiative. The goal is to identify and pilot scalable disruptive technology solutions in World Bank Group (Bank Group) operations to maximize their development impact.
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A grant ($ 390,000) has been awarded to Pauline Rossi
Pauline Rossi
Pauline Rossi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received a grant by the Templeton Foundation for her Burkina Faso Family Aspirations Study (co-PI).
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EUR fellowship for Chen Li
Chen Li
Assistant Professor Chen Li of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an EUR Fellowship for her research project "Identifying and Reducing Biases under Social Uncertainty". With the EUR Fellowship Erasmus University Rotterdam is supporting talented researchers at the early stage of their academic career. The fellowship consists of a grant of € 135,000, to carry out research for a maximum of two years.
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EU Horizon 2020 funding for Cars Hommes, Cees Diks and Jan Tuinstra
Cars Hommes, Cees Diks, Jan Tuinstra
A consortium of 7 European Universities starts an Innovative Training Network (ExSIDE) with the aim to improve our understanding of the role of expectation formation and social influence for economic dynamics and for the optimal design of economic policy. The total sum for the project is € 3,800,000; € 500,000 is for the University of Amsterdam.
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Nasdaq Nordic Foundation Grant for Egle Karmaziene
Egle Karmaziene
Egle Karmaziene (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a grant from Nasdaq Nordic Foundation for independent research to study stock liquidity in segmented markets.
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation and Policy for Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) obtained the prestigious research chair to analyze climate economics, innovation and policy as part of the Canada 150 Research Chairs funds. The Chair is created for a seven-year term and is invested through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Top 3 paper award for Utz Weitzel
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."
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RAPS Best Paper Award ($ 20,000) for Albert J. Menkveld
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."
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An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Eva Janssens
Eva Janssens, Frank Kleibergen
Research Master student Eva Janssens has been awarded a three-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Estimation and Identification of Parameters in Macroeconomic Models with Incomplete Markets". The project will be supervised by research fellows Frank Kleibergen and Christian Stoltenberg, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
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An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Katharina Brütt
Arthur Schram, Katharina Brütt
Research Master student Katharina Brütt has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Endogenous Group Formation and Decision-Making". The project will be supervised by research fellows Arthur Schram and Joep Sonnemans, at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision making (CREED) at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
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An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Rik Letterie
José Luis Moraga-González, Rik Letterie
Research Master student Hendrik (Rik) Letterie has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Reform in the Dutch Market for Long-Term Care: Quantifying the Benefits of Choice and Price-Cap Regulation". The project will be supervised by research fellow J.L. Moraga González, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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EU Horizon 2020 Grant awarded to Eric Bartelsman and Sabien Dobbelaere
Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere
A consortium of European research partners, including TI Fellows Eric Bartelsman and Sabien Dobbelaere from School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, were awarded a grant for a three year Horizon 2020 research project. The project, Raising EU Productivity: Lessons from Improved Micro Data (MicroProd), will examine the empirical observation that productivity growth in the developed world has slowed down in the past decade despite both continuation of technological innovation as well as greater openness to trade.