Kieran Marray
PhD student Kieran Marray was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minor Grant in Mesoeconomics together with Xianglong Kong (University of Chicago), Kathryn McDonald (Columbia University), Peter Öhlinger (Johannes Kepler University), and Ruochen Dai (Central University of Finance and Economics) for the project titled "Place-Based Industrial Policy in Endogenous Production Networks".
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.
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).
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.
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”.
Leonardo Menezes Bravo Alvo Nunes
What are the effects of the city wide parking prices increases that were implied in Amsterdam in April 2019? This is the main question that research master student Leonardo Nunes addresses in his master thesis on ’Parking policy: Evidence from Amsterdam’. For this thesis Leonardo received the 2020 Vrije Universiteit Master Thesis Award.
Erik Verhoef
The department of Spatial Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – with Erik Verhoef as project leader - has received funding within the NWO ZonMW COVID-19 bottom-up research programme for their project ‘Mobility during and after corona lockdown: sustainability, safety, inclusiveness (abbreviated as MOCOLODO).
Frank van Oort
Frank van Oort (Erasmus School of Economics) is project leader of the multidisciplinary research group that has been awarded an NWO ZonMw COVID-19 research grant. Together with the consortium partners, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Oort will investigate the societal effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the (intended) measures for mitigation.
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 $.
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.
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
Ceren Ozgen, Hans Koster
Description: Hans Koster and former colleague Ceren Ozgen were awarded the IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies) Vanguard Fellowship of the University of Birmingham for their research proposal on ‘Skills Mismatch’. The Vanguard Fellowship Programme aims to attract outstanding early and mid-career researchers from global leading institutions, operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines, to work collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Birmingham. Research focuses on new and existing areas - topics that are timely, relevant, address national and international priorities, and cross disciplinary boundaries. Granting Organisations: University of Birmingham
Erik Verhoef
Description: The research project U-PASS (Urban Public Administration and ServiceS innovation for Innovative Urban Mobility Management and Policy) brings together researchers from VU, Leeds University Beijing Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, and the Beijing Transport Research Institute. U-PASS, led by Erik Verhoef, addresses the world-wide shared desire and need for more efficient, reliable and environmentally sustainable urban transport, with a focus on policies and services such as tradable credits schemes, automated vehicles, electric driving, ride sharing, car sharing, and cycling. The project will last for four years and is funded by the NSFC JPI Urban Europe programme. Granting Organisations: NSFC JPI Urban Europe programme
Eric Koomen, Erik Verhoef, Hans Koster, Jan Rouwendal
The Spatial Economics Department (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will be involved in a large project on the evaluation of the opening of the Noord-Zuidlijn, jointly and in close collaboration with research groups at UvA, CWI, and AMS; and with Gemeente Amsterdam. Research here at the Department will focus on a number of themes: effects on traveller behaviour and valuations; on real estate values, on labour markets, and on accessibility Granting Organisations: Gemeente Amsterdam
Henri de Groot
NWO awarded a project to the Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in its 2016 Top Sector Water Call. This research project aims to develop an integrated approach for supporting the long-term inclusive sustainable economic development of urbanizing deltas under uncertain changing conditions. It will be carried out in cooperation with the Policy Analysis section of Delft University of technology and other partners including Deltares, PBL and Can Tho University (Viet Nam). Granting Organisations: NWO
Jan Rouwendal
The Netherlands Institute for Crime and Law Enforcement (NCSR) has awarded a grant to Jan Rouwendal (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for a PhD research project: "Broken Homes and Crime: Differential Effects of Parental Divorce, Parental Decease, and Out-of-Wedlock Birth on Criminal Involvement in Offspring." Description: This project investigates the effects of being raised in a single-parent family on criminal involvement of adolescents. It tests differential effects of parental divorce/separation, parental decease and out-of-wedlock birth on police-registered offending, and investigates the underlying mechanisms by exploring the duration of being raised in a single-parent family, and controls for characteristics of the parent(s), the children and the neighborhood of residence. The project exploits anonymized data of the complete Dutch population available through Statistics Netherlands
Hans Koster
Journal of Economic Geography Best Referee Award 2016
Hans Koster
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen has awarded the Van Der Knaap prijs to Hans Koster, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, for his article "The Internal Structure of Cities. The Economics of Agglomeration, Amenities and Accessibility (VU, 2013)". The Van der Knaap Prijs is awarded for original research in economic and social geography and urban and regional economics.
Erik Verhoef
An Advanced Grant was awarded to Erik Verhoef, Professor in Spatial Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, by the European Research Council for his project "Optimizing Policies for Transport: accounting for Industrial Organisation in Network markets".
Peter Mulder
NWO project Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF)/ERA-NET COFUND Smart Cities and Communities funds research project Peter Mulder. Automated driving; smart incentives and tradable peak hour permits; evaluation of commuting behavior and innovative urban transport policies; and the interrelations between urban form, energy use and local environmental quality , 4 PhD students and postdoc research Granting Organisations: NWO