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.
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NWO funding for Peter Mulder within Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF) project
Peter Mulder
NWO project Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF)/ERA-NET COFUND Smart Cities and Communities funds research project Peter Mulder. Automated driving; smart incentives and tradable peak hour permits; evaluation of commuting behavior and innovative urban transport policies; and the interrelations between urban form, energy use and local environmental quality , 4 PhD students and postdoc research Granting Organisations: NWO
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NWO Grant for Steven Poelhekke
Erik Verhoef, Jos van Ommeren, Peter Mulder, Steven Poelhekke
Steven Poelhekke (School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received an NWO grant under the research program Smart Urban Regions for the Future (SURF)/ERA-NET COFUND Smart Cities and Communities. With this grant 4 PhD students and a postdoctoral researcher will be funded. Subjects: Automated driving; smart incentives and tradable peak hour permits; evaluation of commuting behavior and innovative urban transport policies; and the interrelations between urban form, energy use and local environmental quality.
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CEPR/DFID Private Enterprise Development for Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Grant for Remco Oostendorp
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.
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IZA/DFID Grant for Remco Oostendorp
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).
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An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Sabina Albrecht
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.
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An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, UvA), for his project "Sharing responsibly on the on-demand economy".
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Shaul Shalvi has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award. The biennial Jane Beattie Award is awarded by the European Association for Decision Making, in recognition of “innovation in decision research”. Shalvi received the award for his innovative research in ethical decision making.
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An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 2,000,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to Shaul Shalvi, Professor of Behavioural Ethics at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) for his research project "Responsible sharing: Paving the path for transparent trust". Project description: The collaborative economy is estimated to add €160-€572 billion to the EU economy. Faced with blurry definitions in this emerging market, regulators use a top-down approach and introduce regulations that often fail to consider users’ behaviour. Although considerable knowledge on top-down regulatory solutions for the collaborative economy is accumulating, little is known about the bottom-up psychological factors driving the collaborative economy users’ behaviour. Online platforms rely and promote trust between users and service providers. For responsible sharing, however, trust is necessary but not sufficient. Only when trust is encouraged transparently can users share responsibly. TRUSTPATH will assess, if: (1) users are aware of, or motivated to learn about, the side effects of trade; (2) platforms’ promotion of trust increases users’ information neglect; and (3) transparent environments reduce information neglect and increase responsible sharing. Building on my expertise on trust and cooperation, and using insights from psychology, management, and economics, I will develop and test a novel psychological theory of how people use the collaborative economy: Transparency Based Trust theory (TBT). TBT’s novel hypothesis suggests trust encouraged without transparency leads users to neglect the negative side effects trade has on others. TRUSTPATH innovates by developing a novel methodology (the collaborative economy game) and using cutting-edge technologies (large-scale experiments). Support for TBT implies a major step forward in the systematic understanding of the collaborative economy in the social sciences, and the psychological mechanisms underlying users’ behaviour on platforms like Airbnb, Uber, and others. TRUSTPATH will contribute to establish a new field of study: the psychology of the collaborative economy; inform policymakers seeking to regulate the collaborative economy; and inform companies seeking to promote responsible sharing among users.
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi, Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) received a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). The Grant was awarded for this project "At the roots of corruption: a behavioral ethics approach". In this project Shaul Shalvi studies negative aspects of human cooperation. For many years, human cooperation has been praised as beneficial in organizational and personal settings. However, while the benefits of cooperation are clear, very little is known about its possible negative aspects. Such negative aspects include the potential emergence of unethical conduct among cooperating partners, or as termed here – corrupt collaboration. Such joint unethical efforts, benefiting (directly or indirectly) one or more of the involved parties, occur in business, sports, and even academia. Corrupt collaboration emerges when one party bends ethical rules (here: lie) to set the stage for another party to further bend ethical rules and get the job done, that is, secure personal profit based on joint unethical acts. We propose that corrupt collaborations most commonly occur when all involved parties gain from the corrupt behavior. The current proposal is aimed at unfolding the roots and nature of corrupt collaborations; their existence, the psychological and biological processes underlying them, and the settings most likely to make corrupt collaboration emerge and spread. Accordingly, the information gathered in the current proposal has the potential to change the commonly held conceptions regarding the unidimensional – positive – nature of cooperation. It will help create a comprehensive understanding of cooperation and, specifically, when it should be encouraged or, alternatively, monitored.
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Shaul Shalvi elected to the Young Academy of Europe
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi (University of Amsterdam) was elected to the Young Academy of Europe based on his leadership in research and contributions to the field of Behavioural Ethics, strengthening the links between psychological and economic science.
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The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded a Sara van Dam grant (€ 99,816) to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded a Sara van Dam grant to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) for his research project "Developing empathy to boost honesty: A behavioral ethics approach."
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Stanislav Avdeev wins Best Paper Award at the CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop
Stanislav Avdeev
Stanislav Avdeev wins Best Paper Award at the CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education. Stanislav received the paper award for his research titled "University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization."
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Stanislav Avdeev awarded a Doctoral Research Grant for his work on international education
Stanislav Avdeev
PhD student Stanislav Avdeev (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the 2025 EAIE Doctoral Research Grant. The grant provides up to €4500 in support of research.
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,335,536) has been awarded to Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser, Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council for his project “Competition, Time Pressure, Public Speaking and Multitasking: The Role of Willingness and Ability to Cope with Pressure in Explaining Individual Differences and Inequality in Career Outcomes”.
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Thomas Buser ranks first in 'Economentop 40' 2019
Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser, Tinbergen Institute alumnus and research fellow ranked first in Dutch ‘Economentop 40’ 2019.
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National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Grant for Titus Galama
Titus Galama
A team of international researchers, led by Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), obtained one year of NIH funding for the project: Identifying gene-by-environment interplay in health behaviour. The grant is awarded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).
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ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Titus Galama and Sjoerd van Alten
Sjoerd van Alten, Titus Galama
Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Sjoerd van Alten (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Genetic and environmental determinants of socioeconomic status in the Lifelines cohort.”
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Titus Galama receives Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant
Titus Galama
Titus Galama (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), who is affiliated with the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) project on behalf of the School of Business and Economics, will spend part of the grant money (€548,740) together with scientists and students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, studying the relationship between genes (nature) and environment (nurture) in health, education and work. One of the spearheads is to better understand the causes of inequality.
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An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Travers Child
Remco Oostendorp, Travers Child
Research Master student Travers Child has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Economics and Political Violence". The project will be supervised by research fellow Remco Oostendorp, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.