Chintan Amrit
Best paper award for paper: Su, Yuanyuan; Amrit, Chintan, “A predictive Model for analysing Chad’s food security”, At the IFIP 8.3 Open Conference for Decision Support. The paper was fast-tracked to the Journal of Decision Systems
Chintan Amrit
Ghosh, Mayukh, Amrit Chintan and Gromicho, Joaquim “A Decision Support Tool for Domain-Driven Mobile Clinic Routing: A Case Study in Kenya”, Nominated for the best paper in the SIGDSA 2024 workshop (part of ICIS 2024).
Jos Akkermans
Academy of Management Careers Division Mid-Career Scholarship award. The AOM Careers Division Mid-Career Career Scholarship Award is granted to a scholar whose independent contributions have had and promise to continue to have la asting impact on the careers field.
Arturas Juodis, Simas Kucinskas
Simas Kučinskas and Artūras Juodis were granted the 2023 Vladas Jurgutis Award (€10,000) of the Bank of Lithuania for their research on an innovative system for noise quantification in economic expectations.
Eva Janssens
Eva Janssens received the ASE Dissertation Award for her dissertation 'Estimation and identification in macroeconomic models with incomplete markets'. Janssens was supervised by research fellows Frank Kleibergen and Christian Stoltenberg. The ASE Dissertation Award is awarded for the best PhD thesis at the Amsterdam School of Economics and supersedes the Joop Hartog Dissertation Award.
Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi, Wendy Günther
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi and Wendy Günther (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) a research grant of one million euro. With the grant, they will be able to investigate how novel algorithmic technologies can be applied in medical diagnosis through collaborative learning among stakeholders.
Maarten Lindeboom
Research fellow Maarten Lindeboom will start on January 1, 2024 with his appointment as an advisory member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). The Council of Ministers approved the nomination of the new WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy) advisory council for the period 2023-2027 in 2022, and in doing so also approved the appointment of the new council member Lindeboom.
Hande Karabiyik
Honorable mention for Hande Karabiyik (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in the Econometric Reviews’ Best Paper competition (2021-2022).
Martijn de Jong
The foundation Porticus has granted research fellow Martijn de Jong with a grant to develop an AI-driven, domain-specific chatbot to engage young people (ages 18-25) in Europe, in the field of Catholic spiritual formation.
Eva Janssens
Eva Janssens (Federal Reserve Board) received an Honorable Mention from the KVS for her thesis 'Estimation and identification in macroeconomic models with incomplete markets'. Research fellow Christian Stoltenberg acted as supervisor. Eva received the Honorable Mention during the award of the KVS Medal, which is awarded every three years (previously every two years) to the student who has written and defended the best dissertation in economics during the preceding period.
Yun Xiao
Yun Xiao is the winner of the prestigious KVS Medal (‘Penning’) 2023 for best PhD thesis defended in the field of economics at a Dutch university in the past three years. Yun won the medal for her PhD thesis entitled ‘Fertility, Parental Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility' defended on September 27, 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Research fellow Hessel Oosterbeek and Pauline Rossi acted as supervisors.
Zichen Deng
Zichen Deng (University of Amsterdam and Norwegian School of Economics) received an Honorable Mention from the KVS for his thesis 'Empirical studies in health and development economics'. Research fellow Maarten Lindeboom acted as supervisor. Zichen received the Honorable Mention during the award of the KVS Medal, which is awarded every three years (previously every two years) to the student who has written and defended the best dissertation in economics during the preceding period.
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.
Albert J. Menkveld, Ion Lucas Saru
PhD candidate Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) won the Best Paper Award at the Derivative Markets Conference 2023 in Auckland, New-Zealand. The paper "Who knows? Information Differences between Trader Types" is co-authored with research fellow Albert J. Menkveld
Frank Kleibergen, Haobai Guo
Frank Kleibergen, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, received an Open Competition Grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for his research project "Double robust inference for structural economic models (DRISEM)". The project will be carried out toegether with PhD student Haobai Guo.
Julia Schaumburg
As of September 1, 2023, Julia Schaumburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) was appointed Professor of Econometric Methods and Applications.
Ana Figueiredo
Research fellow Ana Figueiredo (Erasmus University Rotterdam) has been awarded Veni funding from the NWO (Dutch Research Council). Figueiredo’s Veni project tackles this issue by studying the role of temporary work as a self-insurance mechanism for workers with limited financial resources.
Nadine Ketel
Research fellow Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded Veni funding from the NWO (Dutch Research Council). Nadine Ketel will use the grant to conduct research into inequality of opportunity in education.
Aleksandar Andonov
Aleksandar Andonov has been appointed Professor of Financial Institutions and Portfolio Management at the Amsterdam Business School (ABS), University of Amsterdam as of 1 July 2023.
Jonneke Bolhaar
As of 1 July 2023, Jonneke Bolhaar has been appointed as parttime (0.2 fte) Professor of Economic Policy, Human Capital and Labour at Erasmus School of Economics. Bolhaar combines this position with her senior position as Head of Department Labour, Education and Innovation at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.