Hans Koster received the Journal of Economic Geography Best Referee Award 2016
Hans Koster
Journal of Economic Geography Best Referee Award 2016
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Elbert Dijkgraaf and Emiel Maasland have won the Energy Journal Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award
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
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Urban Land Institute Award for Hans Koster
Hans Koster
Hans Koster (school of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) received the Urban Land Institute Award for best paper in the Journal of Economic Geography for his article: "Is the sky the limit? High rise buildings and office rents."
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Sakip Sabanci International Research Award for Hans Koster
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 $.
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Hans Koster has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)
Hans Koster
Hans Koster, Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Business (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded a VENI grant for his project "Planning, places, prices and politics: the economics of spatial planning policy".
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Van der Knaap Prize for Hans Koster
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.
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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.
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Vanguard Fellowship for Hans Koster and Ceren Ozgen
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
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Grant for Evaluation Opening Noord-Zuidlijn for Spatial Economics department
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
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Vrije Universiteit Master Thesis Award for TI student Leonardo Menezes Bravo Alvo Nunes
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.
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Urban Land Institute Award for Jos van Ommeren
Jos van Ommeren
The Urban Land Institute Award for best paper in the Journal of Economic Geography was granted to Jos van Ommeren (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit)
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NWO funding for Peter Mulder within Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF) project
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
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Else-Marie van den Herik wins Lambers Student Excellence Award 2022
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.
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NWO ZonMW Grant for Spatial Economics department Vrije Universiteit
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).
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Kieran Marray receives Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minor Grant in Mesoeconomics
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".
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An Advanced ERC grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Erik Verhoef
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".
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Steven Poelhekke obtains NWO Open Competition SSH-M Grant
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).
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NWO VerDuS SURF Pop Up-funding for Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen
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.
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Eric Verhoef leader NWO funded VerDuS SURF project
Erik Verhoef
Eric Verhoef, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, is project leader for the NWO project "U-SMILE Urban Smart Measures and Incentives for quality of Life Enhancement". This project is one of five major projects that were awarded funding in 2015 as part of the VerDuS SURF project. VerDuS is the Dutch acronym for Connecting Sustainable Cities. Within this 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.
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Erik Verhoef project leader U-PASS
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