Wenqian Huang wins the the ECB Young Economist Prize
Wenqian Huang
Wenqian Huang won the Young Economists’ competition at the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal in June 20217.
Wenqian Huang
Wenqian Huang won the Young Economists’ competition at the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal in June 20217.
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
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterd, received a research grant awarded by the PharmAccess Foundation for the research project "Ability to pay? The role of savings and risk in demand for community-based health insurance in Nigeria and Kenya: a Financial and Health Diaries study".
Geert Mesters
Geert Mesters (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) received the Arnold Zellner Thesis Award for his thesis: “Essays on Nonlinear Panel Time Series Models”, granted by the Business and Economic Statistics section of the American Statistical Association
Geert Mesters
Geert Mesters received the Christian Huygens 2017 Science Award (honorable mention) for his thesis “Essays on Nonlinear Panel Time Series Models”.
Wendun Wang
Wendun Wang (Erasmus School of Economics) received the fellowship for the research project "Estimating Panel Data Model with Heterogeneity and Structural Instability". The research outcomes can be used in many fields of economic and business to analyze different economic mechanisms before and after significant events, such as financial crises, technology shocks, oil price shocks, etc. With the EUR Fellowship Erasmus University Rotterdam wants to support 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.
Hans van Kippersluis
Hans van Kippersluis (Erasmus School of Economics) has won a grant of € 525,000 from the NORFACE research program “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course” (DIAL). This budget allows Van Kippersluis and the department of Applied Economics to attract two PhD candidates and one postdoctoral researcher.
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