Hans Koster received the Journal of Economic Geography Best Referee Award 2016
Hans Koster
Journal of Economic Geography Best Referee Award 2016
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Stephanie Chan wins best paper award at the 2016 (ECMI) Annual Conference
Stephanie Chan, Sweder van Wijnbergen
PhD student Stephanie Chan (University of Amsterdam, supervisor is Sweder van Wijnbergen) won the best paper award for young academics at the 2016 European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) Annual Conference, held November 9, 2016 at the National Bank of Belgium for her paper “Contingent convertible instruments(CoCos): Design, Risk Shifting Incentives and Financial Fragility” (TI Discussion Paper, 16-007/VI, co-authored with fellow Sweder van Wijnbergen).
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Sander Renes has been awarded the Best paper award, XXVIII Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP)
Sander Renes
Sander Renes is TI alumnus and Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics.
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Albert Jan Hummel awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijs 2016
Albert Jan Hummel
Albert Jan Hummel has been awarded the Jan Brouwer thesis award for Economics 2016 for his Research Master thesis “Optimal Redistribution with Unionized Labor Markets”. Albert Jan graduated in September 2015 (cum laude) from the research master's in Economics, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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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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SURF Pop Up-call 2016 for Eric Koomen
Eric Koomen
Description: Kansen voor stedelijke verdichting. Het aantal woningen in Nederland blijft de komende jaren groeien, vooral rond de grote steden. Veel woningen zijn de afgelopen jaren binnen bestaand stedelijk gebied gebouwd, maar het is de vraag of dit in de toekomst ook lukt. Wij onderzoeken daarom de ruimtelijke en financiële haalbaarheid van verdere stedelijke verdichting. Dit project is een samenwerking van VU Amsterdam en Deltametropool. Dit project is een samenwerking van de VU Amsterdam en de Vereniging Deltametropool Granting Organisations: NWO
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An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Pim Kastelein
Pim Kastelein, Roel Beetsma
Research Master student Pim Kastelein has been awarded a five-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Pension Funding, Housing Wealth and Macroeconomic Demand". The project will be supervised by research fellows Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
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An NWO VICI grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Bas van der Klaauw
Bas van der Klaauw
Bas van der Klaauw (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an NWO-VICI grant for his research project “Improving Human Capital by Allocating Individuals Efficiently to Schools and Jobs”.
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Edith Leung has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)
Edith Leung
Edith Leung, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a VENI grant for her project "Disclosures of alternative performance metrics: misleading or informative?"
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Maria Tims has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000)
Maria Tims
Maria Tims received a Veni grant of € 250.000 by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to support her research project 'Looking for the “I” in teams while still functioning as a team: Individual job crafting and its relationships with individual, team, and organizational outcomes'.
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An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Martijn van den Assem
Martijn van den Assem
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Martijn van den Assem (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) for his project "Economic behaviour on TV". In this project Martijn studies how people make decisions when there is a lot of money at stake, using game shows on TV to analyse economic behaviour.
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Pierson Medal for Jan Stoop
Jan Stoop
Jan Stoop, of the Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded the prestigious Pierson Medal of the Stichting Mr. N.G. Pierson Fonds. The medal is awarded by the during the KVS, the Royal Dutch association for economists. In addition to the medal Jan Stoop received a cash prize of € 5,000.
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DFID-ESRC Research Grant for Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has received a research grant for the project "Women's empowerment, social norms and domestic violence". The grant was awarded by DFID-ESRC, the Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research of the Economic and Social Research Council.