Rex Wang Renjie
Research fellow Rex Wang Renjie, affiliated with the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has been awarded an Open Competition SSH XS grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in the first round of 2025. Maximum amount per application is €50.000.
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".
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.
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.
Yasmine van der Straten
Yasmine van der Straten wins best student paper award for her paper “Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Rising Climate Risk and Adaptation on Housing, Income, and Wealth” at the CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2023, organized by CEPR Research and Policy Network (RPN) on Household Finance and the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, with the support of the PhD programme at EDHEC, the National Bank of Denmark and the Queen Mary University of London.
Albert J. Menkveld, Ion Lucas Saru
PhD candidate Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) won the Best Paper Award at the Derivative Markets Conference 2023 in Auckland, New-Zealand. The paper "Who knows? Information Differences between Trader Types" is co-authored with research fellow Albert J. Menkveld
Aleksandar Andonov
Aleksandar Andonov has been appointed Professor of Financial Institutions and Portfolio Management at the Amsterdam Business School (ABS), University of Amsterdam as of 1 July 2023.
Elisa de Weerd, Yasmine van der Straten
hD students Yasmine Van der Straten (University of Amsterdam) and Elisa de Weerd (Erasmus University Rotterdam) were invited to the Catshuis, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, as two of six young economists to engage in conversation with the Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Micky Adriaansens and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Karien van Gennip on the theme of broad prosperity.
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.
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.
David Veenman
Research fellow David Veenman (University of Amsterdam) has been reappointed as Editor of the prestigious journal The Accounting Review.
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).
Carlos Riumallo Herl, Esad Smajlbegovic, Stefan Obernberger
Stefan Obernberger, Carlos Riumallo Herl and Esad Smajlbegovic obtain an 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).
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).
Xu Lin
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Society of Sciences) has awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijs (thesis award) to TI graduate Xu Lin. Lin wrote her thesis entitled Buying Time to Save Lives: Evaluating COVID-19 Lockdown Policies using a Behavioral SEIR as part of the Research Master in Economics at the Tinbergen Institute. Xu Lin is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. TI Research Fellow Sweder van Wijnbergen acted as supervisor for Xu Lin’s master thesis.
Albert J. Menkveld
For the year 2021, over half of the top 40 consists of TI Research Fellows. Moreover, the top 3 consists of TI research fellows entirely: Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit), Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit) and Patrick Verwijmeren (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Albert Menkveld now ranks first for the second year in a row.
Anne Opschoor
Anne Opschoor receives an NWO Vidi grant for his research 'Heterogeneity in extreme risks in high dimensions' Uncertainties like covid19 or Brexit have potentially different effects on countries and industries. Most contemporary models cannot describe such heterogeneity sufficiently well. This research develops new models with more heterogeneity in risk responses and investigates the economic differentiation and robustness of different countries and industries in Europe.
Enrico Perotti, Eric Bartelsman
Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) and Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been granted NWO funding for their research project 'Understanding the role of IT progress and globalization in economic growth' in the NWO Open Competition - Social Sciences and Humanities. Project: A slowing global economy and steady rise in inequality are threatening social cohesion. The project investigates the role of IT progress and globalization in causing unequal economic growth, and explains puzzling trends in capital and labor markets. It will guide a sustainable policy for economic and financial stability. With the NWO Open Competition-SSH, NWO Social Sciences and Humanities wants to offer researchers the opportunity to carry out research into a subject of their own choosing without any thematic constraints. The funding instrument is intended for senior researchers who may no longer apply for a Veni, Vidi and Vici grant within the Talent Scheme.
Antonia Kurz, Yasmine van der Straten
The two participating teams with students of the research master program in Economics took home first and second place in the National Economics Olympiad (NEO), a problem-solving competition for Bachelor and Master students in Economics, that was held completely remotely on March 5. TI Research master students Antonia Kurz and Yasmine van der Straten (on photo), together with Andrea Pogliano from the Erasmus University Rotterdam got first place. The team comprised of TI research master students Aishameriane Schmidt, Andrea Titton and Oliver Feltham took the second place.
Albert J. Menkveld
Albert J. Menkveld ranked first in the 2020 Dutch Economists Top 40. The Economist Top 40 (economentop) is a list of the best publishing economists in the Netherlands published annually by ESB magazine (Economisch Statistische Berichten). The list is based on all peer-reviewed published articles by Dutch economists between January 2015 and December 2019. In total 22 TI fellows are listed in the 2020 rankings: Albert J. Menkveld (1), Thomas Buser (3), Peter Wakker (6), Patrick Verwijmeren (7), Siem Jan Koopman (8), Bas van der Klaauw (9), Andre Lucas (10), Aurelien Baillon (11), Pieter Gautier (12), Cars Hommes (15), Han Bleichrodt (17), Jos van Ommeren (18), Theo Offerman (19), Jan van Ours (20), Arthur Schram (21), Utz Weitzel (22), Hans Koster (24), Olivier Marie (26), Hessel Oosterbeek (27), Erik Verhoef (30), Vladimir Vladimirov (33), Sjoerd van Bekkum (37),