Raymond Florax
The European Investment Bank awarded the European Prize in Regional Science 2014 (EIB-ERSA Award) to Raymond Floraz, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, for outstanding contributions to the advancement of regional science.
Jan Stoop
Jan Stoop, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a VENI grant for his project "Does the lab speak the truth?"
Hans Koster
Hans Koster, Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Business (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded a VENI grant for his project "Planning, places, prices and politics: the economics of spatial planning policy".
Remco Oostendorp
Remco Oostendorp (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the CEPR/DFID Private Enterprise Development for Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Grant.
Remco Oostendorp
Remco Oostendorp (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received a grant from IZA/DFID for the project “Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM/LIC)”. (Oostendorp, co-applicant).
Harold Houba
NWO has awarded funding for the 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference: 70 years of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Menno Pradhan, Remco Oostendorp
Remco Oostendorp, Menno Pradhan (School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and others received the NWO/WOTRO Productive Employment Grant for their project “Productive Employment in the Segmented Markets of Fresh Produce”.
Aurélien Baillon
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Aurélien Baillon (Erasmus School of Economics) for his research project "Beyond rational expectations". This project studies whether people have perfect (rational) expectations about their future, as economists usually assume. That will lead to an improved understanding as to why people take out insurances too quickly and save too little for their pensions.
Albert J. Menkveld
The Eastern Finance Association (EFA) has granted the outstanding paper in investments award to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper: "Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality."
Cars Hommes
Cars Hommes (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam), has been presented with the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2014. Cars Hommes will spend ten months carrying out interdisciplinary research into complexity models for predicting economic behaviour.
Remco Oostendorp, Travers Child
Research Master student Travers Child has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Economics and Political Violence". The project will be supervised by research fellow Remco Oostendorp, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.