Herman van Dijk
During the 12th European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE), one of the major conferences in econometrics worldwide and the primary event on Bayesian econometrics in Europe, honorary fellow Herman K. van Dijk will be honored for his contributions to Bayesian econometrics with a special session, followed by a special issue of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
Andre Lucas, Marcin Zamojski
The National Bank of Poland has awarded to André Lucas and Marcin Zamojski a grant (€ 10,000) to develop models for the forecasting of interest rates.
Marina Friedrich
Marina Friedrich (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Climetrics: Bringing together econometrics and climate sciences'. Friedrich wants to make econometric methods more suitable and accessible for climate researchers, to study climate problems.
Matthijs Korevaar
Matthijs Korevaar (Erasmus University Rotterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'The effects of rental housing policy on the housing conditions and finances of households'. By combining cutting-edge policy evaluation methods with large linked datasets, Korevaar wants to identify causal effects of various housing policies on a wide range of outcomes.
Paul Muller
Paul Muller (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project evaluating the impact and effectiveness of the 30% tax rule. Additionally, the Ministry of Finance supports the project through providing access to unique data on who has benefited from the 30% tax rule. The data has been linked with CBS microdata. he project will be carried out by Massimo Giuliodori (UvA) and Paul Muller (VU). Lisa Timm (Research Master student Tinbergen Institute) will write her PhD thesis on these topics.
Siem Jan Koopman
Siem Jan Koopman (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Labex Louis Bachelier grant (€ 10,000) from the Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF) to conduct research in portfolio allocation
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”
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).
Vladimir Karamychev
A multidisciplinary research team, including fellow Vladimir Karamychev (Erasmus School of Economics), has received a research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant is 500,000 euro worth and awarded to study the effect of energy transition on energy consumption and fuel poverty of low income households. In the project, which goes under the acronym BELOpens external (Behaviour, Energy transition, Low income), a consortium of three universities and four social housing providers participate.
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.
Anastasia Sergeeva
Anastasia Sergeeva receives a Vidi grant for her research project 'Robots at work: Bridging the gap between the robotic development and workplace use'.
Andre Lucas
André Lucas, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an Open Competition Grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for his research project "Dynamic clustering for business model identification and financial stability".
Anne Gielen
The research of Anne Gielen aims to further understanding of causal intergenerational relationships in welfare receipt by exploiting various quasi-natural experiments combined with ‘big data’. First, it investigates the extent to which welfare receipt in childhood has long term effects on socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood, including reliance on welfare. In addition, it studies two critical mechanisms through which welfare dependency may be transmitted from one generation to the next, and investigates how dependency evolves over multiple generations. Finally, it extends the focus to the entire life cycle, identifying whether there exist critical phases over the life cycle where the impact of parental welfare dependency on next generations’ outcomes is largest. The findings of this research can help improve the design of welfare policy by indicating whether, when, and how public policies should target children in welfare receiving families.
Anne Opschoor
Anne Opschoor receives an NWO Vidi grant for his research 'Heterogeneity in extreme risks in high dimensions' Uncertainties like covid19 or Brexit have potentially different effects on countries and industries. Most contemporary models cannot describe such heterogeneity sufficiently well. This research develops new models with more heterogeneity in risk responses and investigates the economic differentiation and robustness of different countries and industries in Europe.
Anne-Sophie Mayer, Ella Hafermalz, Marleen Huysman, Wendy Günther
Marleen Huysman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. With the project ‘GenAI@Work: Studying the Impacts of Generative AI on Knowledge Work, Management and Organizations’ Huysman, jointly with Reza Mousavi Baygi, Ella Hafermalz, Anne-Sophie Mayer and Wendy Günther, aims to uncover the intended and unintended consequences of integrating GenAI technologies in real-world work settings.
Arturas Juodis
Arturas Juodis, TI research master and PhD alumnus, has been awarded a VENI grant for his project: "We do not live in a bubble: economic shocks in misspecified panel data models ".
Arturas Juodis, Simas Kucinskas
Simas Kučinskas and Artūras Juodis were granted the 2023 Vladas Jurgutis Award (€10,000) of the Bank of Lithuania for their research on an innovative system for noise quantification in economic expectations.
Arturas Juodis
Artūras Juodis receives a Vidi grant for developing a novel methodological framework to make complex economic models more accessible
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.
Aysu Okbay
NWO awarded a VENI grant to Aysu Okbay, Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), for her project "Polygenic prediction and its application in social science". Project description: With increasing availability of genetic data, it is becoming feasible to investigate the genetics of behavioural traits, and construct genetic predictors with meaningful predictive power. By building a public repository of genetic predictors for major social-science data sets, this project aims to facilitate their use in social science.