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  • The 2014 Journal of Applied Econometrics Dissertation Prize for Anne Opschoor

    Anne Opschoor

    Anne Opschoor has won the 2014 Journal of Applied Econometrics Dissertation Prize for his paper “Improving Density Forecasts and Value-at-Risk Estimates by Combining Densities” (co-authors Dick van Dijk and Michel van der Wel (both Erasmus School of Economics). Anne Opschoor defended his PhD thesis at the Erasmus School of Economics. The reviewers lauded the careful and rigorous application of econometric techniques, the appropriate interpretation of the results, and the economic content of the nominated paper. The Journal of Applied Econometrics Dissertation Prize was launched in 2002, and is open to PhD students in economics writing a dissertation with a substantive empirical application in any field. Anne Opschoor receives a prize of $2,500 for this award.

  • An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Sabina Albrecht

    Hessel Oosterbeek, Sabina Albrecht

    Research Master student Sabina Albrecht has been awarded a six-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "An International Comparison of Inequality in Earnings and Skill Distributions". The project will be supervised by research fellow Hessel Oosterbeek, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.

  • An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Yajie Sun

    José Luis Moraga-González, Yajie Sun

    Research Master student Yajie Sun has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Consumer Search, Quality Provision and the Efficiency of Frictional Markets". The project will be supervised by research fellow José Luis Moraga-González, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  • An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Joep Lustenhouwer

    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.

  • Marius Zoican attend Lindau Nobel Prize Meeting

    Marius Zoican

    Marius Zoican was nominated by KNAW and attended the Lindau Nobel Prize Meeting.

  • EIB-ERSA Award for Raymond Florax

    Raymond Florax

    The European Investment Bank awarded the European Prize in Regional Science 2014 (EIB-ERSA Award) to Raymond Floraz, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, for outstanding contributions to the advancement of regional science.

  • Jan Stoop has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)

    Jan Stoop

    Jan Stoop, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a VENI grant for his project "Does the lab speak the truth?"

  • Hans Koster has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)

    Hans Koster

    Hans Koster, Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Business (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded a VENI grant for his project "Planning, places, prices and politics: the economics of spatial planning policy".

  • CEPR/DFID Private Enterprise Development for Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Grant for Remco Oostendorp

    Remco Oostendorp

    Remco Oostendorp (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the CEPR/DFID Private Enterprise Development for Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Grant.

  • IZA/DFID Grant for Remco Oostendorp

    Remco Oostendorp

    Remco Oostendorp (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received a grant from IZA/DFID for the project “Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM/LIC)”. (Oostendorp, co-applicant).

  • 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

  • NWO/WOTRO Productive Employment Grant for Remco Oostendrop and Menno Pradhan

    Menno Pradhan, Remco Oostendorp

    Remco Oostendorp, Menno Pradhan (School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and others received the NWO/WOTRO Productive Employment Grant for their project “Productive Employment in the Segmented Markets of Fresh Produce”.

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Aurélien Baillon

    Aurélien Baillon

    NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Aurélien Baillon (Erasmus School of Economics) for his research project "Beyond rational expectations". This project studies whether people have perfect (rational) expectations about their future, as economists usually assume. That will lead to an improved understanding as to why people take out insurances too quickly and save too little for their pensions.

  • Outstanding paper in investments award For Albert Menkveld

    Albert J. Menkveld

    The Eastern Finance Association (EFA) has granted the outstanding paper in investments award to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper: "Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality."

  • Nias Lorentz Fellowship and Prize

    Cars Hommes

    Cars Hommes (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam), has been presented with the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2014. Cars Hommes will spend ten months carrying out interdisciplinary research into complexity models for predicting economic behaviour.