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'.
Edith Leung
Edith Leung, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a VENI grant for her project "Disclosures of alternative performance metrics: misleading or informative?"
Ceren Ozgen
Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (€ 200.000) for her research “Making Sense of Education and Skills in a World of Super Mobility”. She will spend most of the research time at the Department of Economics and IRiS of University of Birmingham in the UK. Granting Organisations: EU
Eric Koomen
Description: Kansen voor stedelijke verdichting. Het aantal woningen in Nederland blijft de komende jaren groeien, vooral rond de grote steden. Veel woningen zijn de afgelopen jaren binnen bestaand stedelijk gebied gebouwd, maar het is de vraag of dit in de toekomst ook lukt. Wij onderzoeken daarom de ruimtelijke en financiële haalbaarheid van verdere stedelijke verdichting. Dit project is een samenwerking van VU Amsterdam en Deltametropool. Dit project is een samenwerking van de VU Amsterdam en de Vereniging Deltametropool Granting Organisations: NWO
Neil Olver
Neil Olver (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has receoved an NWO-TOP Grant for his project Understanding dynamic aspects of traffic.
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.
Bas van der Klaauw
Bas van der Klaauw (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an NWO-VICI grant for his research project “Improving Human Capital by Allocating Individuals Efficiently to Schools and Jobs”.
Sander Renes
Sander Renes is TI alumnus and Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics.
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi (University of Amsterdam) was elected to the Young Academy of Europe based on his leadership in research and contributions to the field of Behavioural Ethics, strengthening the links between psychological and economic science.
Hans Koster
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen has awarded the Van Der Knaap prijs to Hans Koster, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, for his article "The Internal Structure of Cities. The Economics of Agglomeration, Amenities and Accessibility (VU, 2013)". The Van der Knaap Prijs is awarded for original research in economic and social geography and urban and regional economics.
Bastian Ravesteijn
PhD candidate Bastian Ravesteijn was recently awarded a Harkness Fellowship by the Commonwealth Fund. Bastian will spend twelve months at Harvard University to work with leading U.S. experts in health care policy.
Philipp Koellinger
A Consolidator Grant has been awarded by the European Research Council to Philipp Koellinger (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for the project "The molecular genetic architecture of educational attainment and its significance for cognitive health".
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi, Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) received a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). The Grant was awarded for this project "At the roots of corruption: a behavioral ethics approach". In this project Shaul Shalvi studies negative aspects of human cooperation. For many years, human cooperation has been praised as beneficial in organizational and personal settings. However, while the benefits of cooperation are clear, very little is known about its possible negative aspects. Such negative aspects include the potential emergence of unethical conduct among cooperating partners, or as termed here – corrupt collaboration. Such joint unethical efforts, benefiting (directly or indirectly) one or more of the involved parties, occur in business, sports, and even academia. Corrupt collaboration emerges when one party bends ethical rules (here: lie) to set the stage for another party to further bend ethical rules and get the job done, that is, secure personal profit based on joint unethical acts. We propose that corrupt collaborations most commonly occur when all involved parties gain from the corrupt behavior. The current proposal is aimed at unfolding the roots and nature of corrupt collaborations; their existence, the psychological and biological processes underlying them, and the settings most likely to make corrupt collaboration emerge and spread. Accordingly, the information gathered in the current proposal has the potential to change the commonly held conceptions regarding the unidimensional – positive – nature of cooperation. It will help create a comprehensive understanding of cooperation and, specifically, when it should be encouraged or, alternatively, monitored.
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.
Florian Sniekers
TI-UvA PhD student Florian Sniekers (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has been awarded he ESB Award 2015 for his article "Eerst kopen of eerst verkopen op de woningmarkt" (co-authors are Espen Moen and Plamen Nenov). The article shows that moving owner-occupiers should buy first whenever there are many buyers in the market, and should sell first whenever there are many sellers in the market. However, when households buy first, they tend to crowd the buyers' side of the market, and when they sell first, they crowd the sellers' side. As a result, multiple equilibria exist, and self-fulfilling fluctuations between these steady states are quantitatively relevant. The jury praised the intuitiveness as well as the depth of these results.
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.