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.
Elisa de Weerd, Yasmine van der Straten
hD students Yasmine Van der Straten (University of Amsterdam) and Elisa de Weerd (Erasmus University Rotterdam) were invited to the Catshuis, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, as two of six young economists to engage in conversation with the Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Micky Adriaansens and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Karien van Gennip on the theme of broad prosperity.
Mariia Artemova
PhD student Mariia Artemova (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Student’s Best Paper award at the IAAE 2023 Annual Conference for her single-authored paper “An Order-invariant Score-driven Dynamic Factor Model.”
Timo Schenk
PhD student Timo Schenk (University of Amsterdam) received an Honorable mention for the single-authored paper entitled “Identification and Estimation of Indirect Effects with Difference-in-Difference”
Marc van de Wardt
Marc van de Wardt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), has been awarded an 800,000 Euro Vidi research grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his research on the role of personalities in politics.
Paul Muller
Paul Muller (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded an 800,000 euro Vidi funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his research on labor market shortages in the Netherlands.
Julius Ilciukas
Julius Ilciukas wins best PhD paper award at the 5th Baltic Economic Conference, organized by the Baltic Economic Association. The Baltic Economic Conference is the annual conference, rotating every year within the three Baltic countries. This year the conference took place in Riga, Latvia, organized by the Baltic Economic Association, in cooperation with the Bank of Latvia and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.