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  • World Bank Grant for Bo Andree

    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.

  • KRX Outstanding Paper Award for Albert J. Menkveld

    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."

  • Societal Impact Award for Thomas Peeters

    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.

  • EU Horizon 2020 funding for Cars Hommes, Cees Diks and Jan Tuinstra

    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.

  • Outstanding Simulation Publication Award for Bernd Heidergott and co-authors

    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.

  • EUR fellowship for Chen Li

    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.

  • NWA-IDG Funding for Coen van de Kraats

    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".

  • Nasdaq Nordic Foundation Grant for Egle Karmaziene

    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.

  • NWO awarded an Open Competition grant to Eddy van Doorslaer

    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".

  • The 2019 Engle Prize was awarded to Julia Schaumburg

    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.

  • Shaul Shalvi has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award

    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.

  • An NWO Open Competition Grant has been awarded to André Lucas

    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 has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000).

    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 has been awarded an NWO VENI Grant (€ 250,000).

    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.

  • An NWO Open Competition grant has been awarded to Erik Plug

    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 receives the Top Talent Researcher Award

    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.

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Francisco Blasques

    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".

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Jan Stoop

    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.

  • A grant ($ 390,000) has been awarded to Pauline Rossi

    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).

  • 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".