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.
Siem Jan Koopman
Siem Jan Koopman (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Labex Louis Bachelier grant (€ 10,000) from the Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF) to conduct research in portfolio allocation
Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) received the Clarendon Award. The Clarendon Award is an extremely competitive scholarship at the University of Oxford. Originally the award went to the top graduate student applicant in each department. All Oxford University graduate applicants are automatically considered for the Clarendon Scholarship. Granting Organisations: Oxford University Press
Albert J. Menkveld
Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the "Euronext Capital Markets Best Paper Award" (€ 1,500) for is paper "Should Fast-Moving Capital in Crowded Trades be Avoided?". The prize was awarded by the European Financial Management Association.
Chris Elbers
Chris Elbers, School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit, is project leader for an NWO-WOTRO that last 3 years. Project title: "Comparing the impact and cost effectiveness of two social protection interventions in Kenya: fee waiver versus social health insurance scheme". The objective of this proposal is to compare the cost-effectiveness of two types of social protection (fee waiver or social health insurance scheme) and to determine the transmission channel from the short-term impact of the two approaches to medium-term inclusive growth.
Erik Verhoef
An Advanced Grant was awarded to Erik Verhoef, Professor in Spatial Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, by the European Research Council for his project "Optimizing Policies for Transport: accounting for Industrial Organisation in Network markets".
Erik Verhoef
Eric Verhoef, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, is project leader for the NWO project "U-SMILE Urban Smart Measures and Incentives for quality of Life Enhancement". This project is one of five major projects that were awarded funding in 2015 as part of the VerDuS SURF project. VerDuS is the Dutch acronym for Connecting Sustainable Cities. Within this 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.
Hans Koster
Hans Koster (school of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) received the Urban Land Institute Award for best paper in the Journal of Economic Geography for his article: "Is the sky the limit? High rise buildings and office rents."
Jos van Ommeren
The Urban Land Institute Award for best paper in the Journal of Economic Geography was granted to Jos van Ommeren (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit)
Peter Mulder
NWO project Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF)/ERA-NET COFUND Smart Cities and Communities funds research project Peter Mulder. Automated driving; smart incentives and tradable peak hour permits; evaluation of commuting behavior and innovative urban transport policies; and the interrelations between urban form, energy use and local environmental quality , 4 PhD students and postdoc research Granting Organisations: NWO
Erik Verhoef, Jos van Ommeren, Peter Mulder, Steven Poelhekke
Steven Poelhekke (School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received an NWO grant under the research program Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF)/ERA-NET COFUND Smart Cities and Communities. With this grant 4 PhD students and a postdoctoral researcher will be funded. Subjects: Automated driving; smart incentives and tradable peak hour permits; evaluation of commuting behavior and innovative urban transport policies; and the interrelations between urban form, energy use and local environmental quality.
Aurélien Baillon
Aurélien Baillon, Professor of economics of uncertainty at the Erasmus School of Economics, received a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). Aurélien Baillon received the grant for the project “Bayesian markets for unverifiable truths”. In this project he will develop a new approach to get correct answers to questions that are otherwise unverifiable, e.g. concerning one’s happiness or the estimated likelihood of dramatic fatal events. As such the results of the project have a potential beyond economics, in a broad range of social sciences.
Julia Schaumburg
Julia Schaumburg, Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics (Vrije Universiteit) has been awarded a VENI grant for her project "Econometric methods for assessing non-standard monetary policy impacts".