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".
Wenqian Huang
Wenqian Huang won the Young Economists’ competition at the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal in June 20217.
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".
Jan Stoop
Jan Stoop, of the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded the prestigious Pierson Medal of the Stichting Mr. N.G. Pierson Fonds. The medal is awarded by the during the KVS, the Royal Dutch association for economists. In addition to the medal Jan Stoop received a cash prize of € 5,000.
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has received a research grant for the project "Women's empowerment, social norms and domestic violence". The grant was awarded by DFID-ESRC, the Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Stephanie Chan, Sweder van Wijnbergen
PhD student Stephanie Chan (University of Amsterdam, supervisor is Sweder van Wijnbergen) won the best paper award for young academics at the 2016 European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) Annual Conference, held November 9, 2016 at the National Bank of Belgium for her paper “Contingent convertible instruments(CoCos): Design, Risk Shifting Incentives and Financial Fragility” (TI Discussion Paper, 16-007/VI, co-authored with fellow Sweder van Wijnbergen).
Pim Kastelein, Roel Beetsma
Research Master student Pim Kastelein has been awarded a five-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Pension Funding, Housing Wealth and Macroeconomic Demand". The project will be supervised by research fellows Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
Hans Koster
Journal of Economic Geography Best Referee Award 2016
Maria Tims
Maria Tims received a Veni grant of € 250.000 by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to support her research project 'Looking for the “I” in teams while still functioning as a team: Individual job crafting and its relationships with individual, team, and organizational outcomes'.