NWO awards funding to Harold Houba for conference
Harold Houba
NWO has awarded funding for the 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference: 70 years of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Harold Houba
NWO has awarded funding for the 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference: 70 years of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Cars Hommes
Cars Hommes (full professor at UvA) is co-author of the prize winning paper in the paper competition that was set up by the Rebuilding Macroeconomics research initiative. In their paper "Economic Forecasting with an Agent-based Model", Sebastian Poledna, Michael Gregor Miess and Cars Hommes present the first agent-based model (ABM) that can compete with benchmark VAR and DSGE models in out-of-sample forecasting of macro variables. Potential applications of the model include stress-testing and predicting the effects of changes in monetary, fiscal, or other macroeconomic policies. "Rebuilding Macroeconomics" (RM) is a research initiative funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and was founded in 2017. RM is hosted by the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London.
Cars Hommes, Joep Lustenhouwer
Research Master student Joep Lustenhouwer has been awarded a three-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Bounded Rationality and Heterogeneous Expectations". The project will be supervised by research fellow Cars Hommes, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
Cars Hommes, Cees Diks, Jan Tuinstra
A consortium of 7 European Universities starts an Innovative Training Network (ExSIDE) with the aim to improve our understanding of the role of expectation formation and social influence for economic dynamics and for the optimal design of economic policy. The total sum for the project is € 3,800,000; € 500,000 is for the University of Amsterdam.