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 $.