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  • Eric Verhoef leader NWO funded VerDuS SURF project

    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.

  • Urban Land Institute Award for Hans Koster

    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."

  • Urban Land Institute Award for Jos van Ommeren

    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)

  • NWO funding for Peter Mulder within Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF) project

    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

  • NWO Grant for Steven Poelhekke

    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.

  • An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Aurélien Baillon

    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 has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)

    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".

  • The 2014 Journal of Applied Econometrics Dissertation Prize for Anne Opschoor

    Anne Opschoor

    Anne Opschoor has won the 2014 Journal of Applied Econometrics Dissertation Prize for his paper “Improving Density Forecasts and Value-at-Risk Estimates by Combining Densities” (co-authors Dick van Dijk and Michel van der Wel (both Erasmus School of Economics). Anne Opschoor defended his PhD thesis at the Erasmus School of Economics. The reviewers lauded the careful and rigorous application of econometric techniques, the appropriate interpretation of the results, and the economic content of the nominated paper. The Journal of Applied Econometrics Dissertation Prize was launched in 2002, and is open to PhD students in economics writing a dissertation with a substantive empirical application in any field. Anne Opschoor receives a prize of $2,500 for this award.

  • An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Sabina Albrecht

    Hessel Oosterbeek, Sabina Albrecht

    Research Master student Sabina Albrecht has been awarded a six-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "An International Comparison of Inequality in Earnings and Skill Distributions". The project will be supervised by research fellow Hessel Oosterbeek, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.

  • An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Yajie Sun

    José Luis Moraga-González, Yajie Sun

    Research Master student Yajie Sun has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Consumer Search, Quality Provision and the Efficiency of Frictional Markets". The project will be supervised by research fellow José Luis Moraga-González, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  • An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Joep Lustenhouwer

    Cars Hommes, Joep Lustenhouwer

    Research Master student Joep Lustenhouwer has been awarded a three-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Bounded Rationality and Heterogeneous Expectations". The project will be supervised by research fellow Cars Hommes, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.

  • Marius Zoican attend Lindau Nobel Prize Meeting

    Marius Zoican

    Marius Zoican was nominated by KNAW and attended the Lindau Nobel Prize Meeting.

  • EIB-ERSA Award for Raymond Florax

    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 has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)

    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 has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)

    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".

  • CEPR/DFID Private Enterprise Development for Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Grant for Remco Oostendorp

    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.

  • IZA/DFID Grant for Remco Oostendorp

    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).

  • NWO awards funding to Harold Houba for conference

    Harold Houba

    NWO has awarded funding for the 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference: 70 years of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

  • NWO/WOTRO Productive Employment Grant for Remco Oostendrop and Menno Pradhan

    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”.

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Aurélien Baillon

    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.