Enrico Perotti, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization have awarded the 2018 annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, & Enrico C. Perotti (University of Amsterdam) for their article "The Emergence of the Corporate Form."
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.
Albert J. Menkveld
NWO awarded a VICI grant to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) for his research project "Financial Techology (FinTech's) Disruptive Impact on Financial Markets: Social Costs and Benefits of an Emerging New Architecture”. Albert’s research focuses on robotic trading. Robots facilitate trade, but increasingly act as traders themselves. Is this new architecture better than the old one? And what are the risks involved?
Martijn van den Assem
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Martijn van den Assem (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) for his project "Economic behaviour on TV". In this project Martijn studies how people make decisions when there is a lot of money at stake, using game shows on TV to analyse economic behaviour.
Peter Koudijs
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Peter Koudijs, Professor of Financial Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics a Consolidator Grant for his project "One of Mans’s greatest inventions? Historical insights into limited Liability".
Yasmine van der Straten
The best single-authored paper was awarded with a prize of €1000, which is co-sponsored by the Sustainable Finance Lab. The paper for which the prize was awarded, “ Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Rising Climate Risk and Adaptation on Housing, Income, and Wealth” examines the relationship between financial constraints and optimal adaptation to physical climate risk at the household level and its dynamic consequences on housing, income, and wealth. The 1st European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop was organized by the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.), in collaboration with EDHEC, ESCP, KU Leuven, Warwick Business School, and the University of Augsburg.
Yasmine van der Straten
Yasmine van der Straten wins best student paper award for her paper “Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Rising Climate Risk and Adaptation on Housing, Income, and Wealth” at the CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2023, organized by CEPR Research and Policy Network (RPN) on Household Finance and the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, with the support of the PhD programme at EDHEC, the National Bank of Denmark and the Queen Mary University of London.