Albert J. Menkveld
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS) has awarded the Best Paper Award to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper "Crowded Positions: An Overlooked Systemic Risk for Central Clearing Parties" received."
Albert J. Menkveld
NWO awarded a VICI grant to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) for his research project "Financial Techology (FinTech's) Disruptive Impact on Financial Markets: Social Costs and Benefits of an Emerging New Architecture”. Albert’s research focuses on robotic trading. Robots facilitate trade, but increasingly act as traders themselves. Is this new architecture better than the old one? And what are the risks involved?
Utz Weitzel
The Financial Management Journal has granted the Top 3 paper award to Utz Weitzel (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper: “Sold Below Value? Why Takeover Offers Can Have Negative Premiums."
Enrico Perotti, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization have awarded the 2018 annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, & Enrico C. Perotti (University of Amsterdam) for their article "The Emergence of the Corporate Form."