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.
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
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
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.
Daan Opschoor, Terri van der Zwan
TI PhD students Daan Opschoor (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Terri van der Zwan (Erasmus University Rotterdam) are winners of the paper competition for PhD students organized in the context of the 2023 ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques.
Ion Lucas Saru
Lucas Saru (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Finance PhD candidate under the supervision of research fellow Albert J. Menkveld,, won the best paper award in Investments and Asset Pricing at the FMA’s 2023 European Conference in Aalborg from June 7-9.
Chen Li
As of 1 June 2023, research fellow Chen Li has been appointed as Professor of Behavioural Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics. In her research, Li focuses on decision making under uncertainty and over time.
David Veenman
Research fellow David Veenman (University of Amsterdam) has been reappointed as Editor of the prestigious journal The Accounting Review.
Maarten Bosker, Paul Pelzl, Steven Poelhekke
Research fellow Steven Poelhekke of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has obtained an NWO Open Competition SSH-M grant of €400,000. The project “Restricting raw material exports” includes team members Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam and research fellow) and Paul Pelzl (NHH Norwegian School of Economics and former TI student).
Anne Boring
Anne Boring of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an NWO Open Competition SSH-M grant. Anne receives this grant, with a maximum budget of 400,000 euro, to enable her to work on her project about diversity in leadership positions.
Albert J. Menkveld
Research fellow Albert J. Menkveld, professor of finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is one of the eighteen new selected members of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Zhiling Wang
Zhiling Wang of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an NWO Open Competition SSH-XS grant. Zhiling receives this grant, with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro, to enable her to work on her project about the influence of student loans on mental health problems. In her SSH-XS project Zhiling Wang will research how the student loan system in Dutch higher education influences students’ mental health problems over the full trajectory of their study.
Fleur Deken
The NWO Veni grant, of up to 280.000 euros, is awarded to excellent researchers who have recently obtained their PhD, to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years. Laureates are at the start of their scientific career and display a striking talent for scientific research.
Carlos Riumallo Herl, Esad Smajlbegovic, Stefan Obernberger
Stefan Obernberger, Carlos Riumallo Herl and Esad Smajlbegovic obtain an NWO Open Competition SSH-XS grant. They receive this grant with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro to enable their proposal for curiosity-driven, fundamental research in the research fields covered by the NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).
Hans Berends
NWO KIC grant Maatschappelijk Verdienvermogen: “Fieldlabs@Scale: Towards effective collaborative experimentation for mission-driven innovation”, 2023-2027, 1,500,000 Euro
Hans Berends
NWO Open Competition grant for “OPEN-QUAL: Innovating Methods for Open Science in Qualitative Management Research”, 2023-2027, 760,000 Euro.