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  • Eva Janssens received an Honorable Mention from the KVS

    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.

  • KVS Medal for Yun Xiao

    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 received an Honorable Mention from the KVS

    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 wins best PhD paper award at the CEPR European Conference on Household Finance 2023

    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.

  • Best paper award for Lucas Saru and Albert J. Menkveld

    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

  • An NWO Open Competition SSH Grant has been awarded to Frank Kleibergen

    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 appointed as Professor of Econometric Methods and Applications

    Julia Schaumburg

    As of September 1, 2023, Julia Schaumburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) was appointed Professor of Econometric Methods and Applications.

  • Ana Figueiredo receives Veni research grant

    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 receives Veni research grant

    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 appointed professor of Financial Institutions and Portfolio Management

    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 appointed Professor of Economic Policy, Human Capital and Labour

    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.

  • Yasmine Van der Straten and Elisa de Weerd selected for conversation with Ministers of Dutch cabinet

    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.

  • Best paper award for Mariia Artemova at the IAAE 2023 Conference

    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.”

  • Honorable mention for Timo Schenk at the IAAE 2023 Conference

    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”

  • An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Marc van de Wardt

    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 receives Vidi research grant

    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 wins best PhD paper award

    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.

  • Julius Ilciukas wins best PhD paper award at the 5th Baltic Economic Conference

    Julius Ilciukas

    The jury, consisting of the representatives of SSE Riga and the Bank of Latvia, the Bank of Lithuania, the Bank of Estonia and Tallinn University of Technology, unanimously awarded this year's best paper to Julius Ilciukas for his paper on "Fertility and Parental Retirement”. 

  • Evgenii Vladimirov received the Best Paper Award at 2023 Early-Career Scholars SoFiE Conference

    Evgenii Vladimirov

    Evgenii Vladimirov received the Best Paper Award at the pre-conference for young scholars of the annual conference of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul (South Korea).

  • Yasmine van der Straten wins best paper award at the European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop

    Yasmine van der Straten

    The best single-authored paper was awarded with a prize of €1000, which is co-sponsored by the Sustainable Finance Lab. The paper for which the prize was awarded, “ Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Rising Climate Risk and Adaptation on Housing, Income, and Wealth” examines the relationship between financial constraints and optimal adaptation to physical climate risk at the household level and its dynamic consequences on housing, income, and wealth. The 1st European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop was organized by the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.), in collaboration with EDHEC, ESCP, KU Leuven, Warwick Business School, and the University of Augsburg.