An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, UvA), for his project "Sharing responsibly on the on-demand economy".
Shaul Shalvi
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, UvA), for his project "Sharing responsibly on the on-demand economy".
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award. The biennial Jane Beattie Award is awarded by the European Association for Decision Making, in recognition of “innovation in decision research”. Shalvi received the award for his innovative research in ethical decision making.
Shaul Shalvi
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to Shaul Shalvi, Professor of Behavioural Ethics at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) for his research project "Responsible sharing: Paving the path for transparent trust". Project description: The collaborative economy is estimated to add €160-€572 billion to the EU economy. Faced with blurry definitions in this emerging market, regulators use a top-down approach and introduce regulations that often fail to consider users’ behaviour. Although considerable knowledge on top-down regulatory solutions for the collaborative economy is accumulating, little is known about the bottom-up psychological factors driving the collaborative economy users’ behaviour. Online platforms rely and promote trust between users and service providers. For responsible sharing, however, trust is necessary but not sufficient. Only when trust is encouraged transparently can users share responsibly. TRUSTPATH will assess, if: (1) users are aware of, or motivated to learn about, the side effects of trade; (2) platforms’ promotion of trust increases users’ information neglect; and (3) transparent environments reduce information neglect and increase responsible sharing. Building on my expertise on trust and cooperation, and using insights from psychology, management, and economics, I will develop and test a novel psychological theory of how people use the collaborative economy: Transparency Based Trust theory (TBT). TBT’s novel hypothesis suggests trust encouraged without transparency leads users to neglect the negative side effects trade has on others. TRUSTPATH innovates by developing a novel methodology (the collaborative economy game) and using cutting-edge technologies (large-scale experiments). Support for TBT implies a major step forward in the systematic understanding of the collaborative economy in the social sciences, and the psychological mechanisms underlying users’ behaviour on platforms like Airbnb, Uber, and others. TRUSTPATH will contribute to establish a new field of study: the psychology of the collaborative economy; inform policymakers seeking to regulate the collaborative economy; and inform companies seeking to promote responsible sharing among users.
Albert J. Menkveld
The Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives has awarded the KRX Outstanding Paper Award" ($1,500) to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper "Central Counterparty Exposure in Stressed Markets."
Thomas Peeters
Thomas Peeters (Erasmus School of Economics) received the 2019 Societal Impact Award for combining excellent research with solid policy advisory work in the field of sports economics. The award is granted by the Erasmus School of Economics Management Team.
Bernd Heidergott
The winners of the INFORMS Simulation Society Outstanding Publication Award for 2019 are Yijie Peng, Michael Fu, Jian-Qiang Hu and Bernd Heidergott for their article titled "A New Unbiased Stochastic Derivative Estimator for Discontinuous Sample Performances with Structural Parameters". Bernd Heidergott is Professor of Stochastic Optimization at the School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Chen Li
Assistant Professor Chen Li of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an EUR Fellowship for her research project "Identifying and Reducing Biases under Social Uncertainty". With the EUR Fellowship Erasmus University Rotterdam is supporting 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.
Bo Andree
Bo Andree (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Nadia Piffaretti (Senior Economist at the World Bank) won a grant with their proposal to develop and pilot methods to nowcast real-time conditions in fragile countries. The grant was awarded under the Disruptive Technology Initiative. The goal is to identify and pilot scalable disruptive technology solutions in World Bank Group (Bank Group) operations to maximize their development impact.
Coen van de Kraats
Awarded by NWO in the category Dutch National Research Agenda - Idea Generator, for his project "Origins of the Opportunity Gap: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data on Childhood Health and Development".
Egle Karmaziene
Egle Karmaziene (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a grant from Nasdaq Nordic Foundation for independent research to study stock liquidity in segmented markets.
Eddy van Doorslaer
An NWO grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities has been awarded to Eddy van Doorslaer, Erasmus School of Economics, for the research project "Better choices for better long-term care".
Julia Schaumburg
The 2019 Engle Prize, awarded by the Journal of Financial Econometrics, has been awarded to Julia Schaumburg (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit). Julia received the prize for her article "Beyond dimension two: A test for higher-order tail risk” (2016, co-authors: Carsten Bormann and Melanie Schienle). The Engle Prize was awarded to a young scholar, for best paper published in 2016, 2017 and 2018 volumes.
Andre Lucas
André Lucas, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an Open Competition Grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for his research project "Dynamic clustering for business model identification and financial stability".
Bastian Ravesteijn
NWO awarded a VENI grant to Bastian Ravesteijn, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, for his project “Improving access to mental health care”.
Chen Li
A VENI grant has been awarded to Chen Li, an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, for the project 'Trapped in Gender Stereotypes?" The project addresses the topic of gender equality: invisible stereotypes keep holding people back. This project uses techniques from behavioral economics to reduce stereotypes. It delivers a new measure of stereotypes and the resulting welfare costs, identifies biases that trap people in stereotypes, and provides new inequality-reducing tools.
Erik Plug
Erik Plug, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, received an Open Competition Grant in the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities, for his research project "The different costs of motherhood".
Esad Smajlbegovic
Esad Smajlbegovic (Erasmus School of Economics) has been awarded the 2019 Top Talent Researcher Award (together with Ying Gan and Krzysztof Postek). The award is awarded by the Management Team of Erasmus School of Economics.
Francisco Blasques
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Francisco Blasques (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his research project: "Econometric methods for incorrect models".
Jan Stoop
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Jan Stoop (Erasmus School of Economics) for his project "Measuring poverty with envelopes". This project deepens our knowledge on poverty using novel field experiments.
Pauline Rossi
Pauline Rossi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received a grant by the Templeton Foundation for her Burkina Faso Family Aspirations Study (co-PI).