Zhen Li
TI alumnus Merrick (Zhen) Li has been awarded Joop Hartog Dissertation Award for the best PhD thesis at the Amsterdam School of Economics defended in 2018 or 2019. The award consists of a medal and a cash prize of EUR 2,500. The prize has been awarded biannually since 2008.
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."
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
Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the "Euronext Capital Markets Best Paper Award" (€ 1,500) for is paper "Should Fast-Moving Capital in Crowded Trades be Avoided?". The prize was awarded by the European Financial Management Association.
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.
Bo Andree
Bo Andree, PhD student at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received the DEC VPU award in recognition of outstanding work on analytical support to World Bank Operations. Granting Organisation: World Bank
Hans Koster
For his paper on 'The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England', Hans (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amserdam) received the Sakip Sabanci International Research Award from the Sabanci University in Istanbul. This year, the award acknowledges studies concentrating on the government's role in and economic policies related to the wide range of topics from inequality to income distribution, climate change to energy, traffic congestion to air pollution, transportation to housing. The prize amounts to 10.000 $.
Albert J. Menkveld, Ion Lucas Saru
PhD candidate Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) won the Best Paper Award at the Derivative Markets Conference 2023 in Auckland, New-Zealand. The paper "Who knows? Information Differences between Trader Types" is co-authored with research fellow Albert J. Menkveld
Stefan Stremersch
Stefan Stremersch (Erasmus School of Economics) is the winner of the EMAC Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award 2020. The two main criteria for the award are: (1) outstanding marketing scholarship as reflected in extensive, impactful research contributions, and (2) outstanding contributions to the European Marketing Academy.
Leonardo Menezes Bravo Alvo Nunes
What are the effects of the city wide parking prices increases that were implied in Amsterdam in April 2019? This is the main question that research master student Leonardo Nunes addresses in his master thesis on ’Parking policy: Evidence from Amsterdam’. For this thesis Leonardo received the 2020 Vrije Universiteit Master Thesis Award.
Stanislav Avdeev
Stanislav Avdeev has been awarded the 2025 ESPE PhD Prize, created by the European Society for Population Economics to recognize outstanding work by PhD candidates in population economics for his paper “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization.”
Arturas Juodis
The editors of The Econometrics Journal have awarded the 2019 Denis Sargan Econometrics Prize to research fellow and TI alumnus Artūras Juodis (University of Amsterdam) for his article "Optimal panel unit root testing with covariates” with Joakim Westerlund in the January 2019 issue of The Econometrics Journal (https://doi.org/10.1111/ectj.12118). The price will be presented on Tuesday April, 13 2021.
Siem Jan Koopman
Siem Jan Koopman (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has received the VILLUM Visiting Professor Programme grant from the Velux Foundation (€ 60,000) to support his International Fellowship at CREATES.
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, Marcin Zamojski
The National Bank of Poland has awarded to André Lucas and Marcin Zamojski a grant (€ 10,000) to develop models for the forecasting of interest rates.
Siem Jan Koopman
Siem Jan Koopman (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Labex Louis Bachelier grant (€ 10,000) from the Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF) to conduct research in portfolio allocation
Timo Schenk
PhD student Timo Schenk (University of Amsterdam) received an Honorable mention for the single-authored paper entitled “Identification and Estimation of Indirect Effects with Difference-in-Difference”
Juan Juan Cai
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a research grant from the Open Competition Domain Science - M-2 to Juan Juan Cai to develop novel statistical methods for predicting the cure probability and the survival time of the patients.
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".
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 ".