Geert Mesters
Geert Mesters (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) received the Arnold Zellner Thesis Award for his thesis: “Essays on Nonlinear Panel Time Series Models”, granted by the Business and Economic Statistics section of the American Statistical Association
Geert Mesters
Geert Mesters received the Christian Huygens 2017 Science Award (honorable mention) for his thesis “Essays on Nonlinear Panel Time Series Models”.
Albert J. Menkveld, Shihao Yu
Research Master student Shihao Yu has been awarded a five-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Social Costs and Benefits of Financial Technology (FinTech)". The project will be supervised by research fellow Albert J. Menkveld, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Cars Hommes
Cars Hommes, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, has received the Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship from the European Central Bank (ECB). The Fellowship allows recipients to conduct policy-related economics research within the Directorate General Research of the ECB. The title of his research proposal is Behavioral & Experimental Macroeconomics and Policy Implications.
Rogier Quaedvlieg
Rogier Quaedvlieg, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a VENI grant for his project "Extracting more information from high-frequency data: Looking for signs of direction through Realized Semicovariances ".
Hans van Kippersluis
Hans van Kippersluis (Erasmus School of Economics) has won a grant of € 525,000 from the NORFACE research program “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course” (DIAL). This budget allows Van Kippersluis and the department of Applied Economics to attract two PhD candidates and one postdoctoral researcher.
Albert J. Menkveld
Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Norges Bank Investment Management grant ($860,000) to fund three-year research program on "Transparency and Financial Market Quality," jointly with Carole Comerton-Forde (UNSW), Terrence Hendershott (UC Berkeley), Charles Jones (Columbia U), and Christine Parlour (UC Berkeley). Granting Organisation: Norges Bank.
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
Henri de Groot
NWO awarded a project to the Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in its 2016 Top Sector Water Call. This research project aims to develop an integrated approach for supporting the long-term inclusive sustainable economic development of urbanizing deltas under uncertain changing conditions. It will be carried out in cooperation with the Policy Analysis section of Delft University of technology and other partners including Deltares, PBL and Can Tho University (Viet Nam). Granting Organisations: NWO
Jan Rouwendal
The Netherlands Institute for Crime and Law Enforcement (NCSR) has awarded a grant to Jan Rouwendal (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for a PhD research project: "Broken Homes and Crime: Differential Effects of Parental Divorce, Parental Decease, and Out-of-Wedlock Birth on Criminal Involvement in Offspring." Description: This project investigates the effects of being raised in a single-parent family on criminal involvement of adolescents. It tests differential effects of parental divorce/separation, parental decease and out-of-wedlock birth on police-registered offending, and investigates the underlying mechanisms by exploring the duration of being raised in a single-parent family, and controls for characteristics of the parent(s), the children and the neighborhood of residence. The project exploits anonymized data of the complete Dutch population available through Statistics Netherlands
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterd, received a research grant awarded by the PharmAccess Foundation for the research project "Ability to pay? The role of savings and risk in demand for community-based health insurance in Nigeria and Kenya: a Financial and Health Diaries study".
Anne Gielen
The research of Anne Gielen aims to further understanding of causal intergenerational relationships in welfare receipt by exploiting various quasi-natural experiments combined with ‘big data’. First, it investigates the extent to which welfare receipt in childhood has long term effects on socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood, including reliance on welfare. In addition, it studies two critical mechanisms through which welfare dependency may be transmitted from one generation to the next, and investigates how dependency evolves over multiple generations. Finally, it extends the focus to the entire life cycle, identifying whether there exist critical phases over the life cycle where the impact of parental welfare dependency on next generations’ outcomes is largest. The findings of this research can help improve the design of welfare policy by indicating whether, when, and how public policies should target children in welfare receiving families.
Shaul Shalvi
The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded a Sara van Dam grant to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) for his research project "Developing empathy to boost honesty: A behavioral ethics approach."
Stefanie Jeanette Huber
Stefanie Huber (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) received the Barcelona GSE SEED grant (5000 Euro) for the project “Biased Expectations and Skill Mismatch”, 2017.
Wendun Wang
Wendun Wang (Erasmus School of Economics) received the fellowship for the research project "Estimating Panel Data Model with Heterogeneity and Structural Instability". The research outcomes can be used in many fields of economic and business to analyze different economic mechanisms before and after significant events, such as financial crises, technology shocks, oil price shocks, etc. With the EUR Fellowship Erasmus University Rotterdam wants to support 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.
Arturas Juodis
Arturas Juodis, TI research master and PhD alumnus, has been awarded a VENI grant for his project: "We do not live in a bubble: economic shocks in misspecified panel data models ".
Pauline Rossi
Pauline Rossi, Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA), has been awarded a VENI grant for her project: "The rich have money, the poor have children".