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".
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NWO VerDuS SURF Pop Up-funding for Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen
Eric Koomen, Henri de Groot
VerDuS SURF Pop Up-subsidie awarded to Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit. VerDuS is the Dutch acronym for Connecting Sustainable Cities. Within this NWO knowledge initiative VerDuS, scientific researchers in collaboration with experts from the field develop knowledge to respond to issues such as urbanisation, spatial planning, mobility and transport.
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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.
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Research grant for Wendy Janssens from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000)
Wendy Janssens
Research grant from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000) to organize an international brainstorm workshop on “Maternal health and digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa”
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Elbert Dijkgraaf and Emiel Maasland have won the Energy Journal Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award
Elbert Dijkgraaf
Elbert Dijkgraaf (Erasmus School of Economics) has won the Energy Journal Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award, together with Emiel Maasland. The prize was awarded for their paper on the effectiveness of feed-in tariffs in the development of solar photovoltaics. The IAEE’s Energy Economics Education Foundation instituted a Best Paper Award for the paper designated as the most outstanding of the papers published in The Energy Journal the previous year
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An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 2,000,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
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.
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Stephanie van Hinke
Stephanie von Hinke
Stephanie von Hinke, Professor of Health Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council, to work on the project "Developmental Origins: exploring the Nature-Nurture Interplay".