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  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 850,000) has been awarded to Arturas Juodis

    Arturas Juodis

    Artūras Juodis receives a Vidi grant for developing a novel methodological framework to make complex economic models more accessible

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 850,000) has been awarded to Jan Hausfeld

    Jan Hausfeld

    Jan Hausfeld receives a Vidi grant for his project 'Us vs them: Using attention to understand and reduce discrimination' studies how attention affects discrimination, especially in group decisions. Using eye-tracking technology, he hopes to uncover hidden biases and help make hiring and resource distribution fairer.

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 850,000) has been awarded to Jonne Guyt

    Jonne Guyt

    Jonne Guyt receives a Vidi grant for his research on the societal impact of health taxes on junk food.

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 850,000) has been awarded to Niels Rietveld

    Niels Rietveld

    Niels Rietveld receives a Vidi grant for advancing the literature on gene-environment interactions and intergenerational mobility both theoretically and empirically

  • Thu Nguyen Wins 2024 Best PhD Paper at 7th Asset Pricing Conference

    Thu Nguyen

    PhD student Thu Nguyen (University of Amsterdam) is the 2024 winner of the best paper in Asset Pricing at the 7th Asset Pricing Conference by LTI@UniTO at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy. Thu was awarded the prize for her job market paper, titled "Market Concentration, Capital Misallocation, and Asset Pricing".

  • An NWO Open Competition - SSH L grant has been awarded to Marleen Huysman

    Anne-Sophie Mayer, Ella Hafermalz, Marleen Huysman, Wendy Günther

    Marleen Huysman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. With the project ‘GenAI@Work: Studying the Impacts of Generative AI on Knowledge Work, Management and Organizations’ Huysman, jointly with Reza Mousavi Baygi, Ella Hafermalz, Anne-Sophie Mayer and Wendy Günther, aims to uncover the intended and unintended consequences of integrating GenAI technologies in real-world work settings.

  • An NWO Open Competition - SSH L grant has been awarded to Jos van Ommeren

    Hans Koster, Jos van Ommeren

    Jos van Ommeren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Van Ommeren, jointly with TI research fellow Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) aims to investigate the effects of different policies on housing affordability.

  • An NWO Open Competition - SSH L grant has been awarded to Bas van der Klaauw

    Bas van der Klaauw, Hessel Oosterbeek, Monique de Haan, Nadine Ketel

    Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Van der Klaauw's research focuses on lottery systems in secondary education and is conducted in collaboration with research fellows Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Monique de Haan and Hessel Oosterbeek (both University of Amsterdam)

  • An NWO Open Competition - SSH L grant has been awarded to Sander Onderstal

    Sander Onderstal

    Sander Onderstal (University of Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Onderstal’s research project aims to answer what is the best way to shape economic institutions when the common assumption that people are selfish is relaxed.

  • Albert Jan Hummel receives Veni grant for research on labor-market policies

    Albert Jan Hummel

    Albert Jan Hummel (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Designing labor-market policies when firms are heterogeneous'. With this project Hummel aims to shed light on how redistributive policies affect labor-market outcomes if differences between firms are taken into account and the consequences for the optimal design of these policies.

  • Marina Friedrich receives Veni grant for climate research

    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 receives Veni grant for research on rental housing policies

    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 receives Veni grant for research on the interaction of inequality and climate policy

    Thomas Douenne

    Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant 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..

  • The 2024 H. Gregg Lewis Prize has been awarded to Nadine Ketel

    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 is finalist of the ECB Young Economist Prize

    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 has won the 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award

    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 has received an NWO Rubicon grant

    Roger Prudon

    Roger has been awarded the Rubicon grant for his research project 'Treating the untreated: Reforms of the Dutch mental healthcare system'.

  • CESifo Award for alumnus Francesco Capozza

    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 obtains Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

    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”.

  • Artūras Juodis and Simas Kučinskas receive Vladas Jurgutis Award

    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.