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?"
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?"
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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”.
Harold Houba
NWO has awarded funding for the 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference: 70 years of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
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).
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.