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).
Sweder van Wijnbergen
Sweder van Wijnbergen (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the Pierson Penning on 16 December 2020. The medal was presented by Klaas Knot, chairman of the board of the Pierson Fund and president of De Nederlandsche Bank. The Pierson Medal is awarded once every 3 years to highly deserving Dutch economists who have distinguished themselves through the quality and depth of their publications.
Peter Koudijs
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Peter Koudijs, Professor of Financial Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics a Consolidator Grant for his project "One of Mans’s greatest inventions? Historical insights into limited Liability".
Jurre Thiel
Jurre Thiel is the winner of the KVS Medal (‘Penning’) 2020 for best PhD thesis defended in the field of economics at a Dutch university in the past three years. Jurre won the medal for his PhD thesis entitled ‘Competition, dynamic pricing and advice in frictional markets: Theory and evidence from the Dutch market for mortgages' defended on January 14, 2020 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Research fellow José Luis Moraga-González acted as supervisor.
Julia Schaumburg
Julia Schaumburg (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has received a VIDI grant for her research project "Statistical learning over time: closing the gap between time-series econometrics and the statistical learning literature".
Peter Koudijs
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Professor Peter Koudijs of Erasmus School of Economics with a NWO VIDI grant for his research project: "Limited liability: blessing or curse?"
Magda Rola-Janicka
Every year since 2011, the Finance Theory Group awards prizes for the best theory papers on the finance job market. This year, two papers won the 1st award: 'The Political Economy of Prudential Regulation' by PhD student Magdalena Rola-Janicka and 'Multinational Banks and Financial Stability' by Christopher Clayton (Yale University, United States) Andreas Schaab (Harvard University, United States).
Bas Donkers, Benedict Dellaert
Netspar has awarded a grant to Bas Donkers and Benedict Dellaert of the Erasmus School of Economics, to investigate and support individuals’ pension decision making when pension investment outcomes are uncertain.
Erik Verhoef
The department of Spatial Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – with Erik Verhoef as project leader - has received funding within the NWO ZonMW COVID-19 bottom-up research programme for their project ‘Mobility during and after corona lockdown: sustainability, safety, inclusiveness (abbreviated as MOCOLODO).
Niels Rietveld
Niels Rietveld, Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics and Executive Director of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology (EURIBEB), has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. Niels Rietveld received the grant for his project "Genes, Policy, and Social Inequality". Many important indicators of social status (such as one’s level of education, occupation, and income) have been shown to be moderately heritable, meaning that a part of the variation in social status can be explained by genetic differences across population members. Niels Rietveld (with his co-authors) has been able to identify, for the first time, specific genetic variants that are robustly associated with such an indicator, namely educational attainment (Rietveld et al., 2013, Science). By methodologically advancing the estimation of the interaction between genes and environments, this research project aims to settle two long lasting debates in social science genetics. First, Rietveld aims to show how heritability studies –despite earlier firm rejections of this position– can be informative for policies aiming to reduce social inequalities. Second, he will assess the critique that social science genetics attributes effects to genes which should be attributed to the environments individuals live in.
Mareen Bastiaans
The 2020 Rotterdam Thesis Award has been awarded to PhD student Mareen Bastiaans (Erasmus University Rotterdam) for her thesis ‘Labour market and health effects of an activation programme for the long-term inactive.’
Stefan Hochguertel
Stefan Hochguertel received a Netspar grant for the research project "The effect of macroprudential policies on pensions and retirement preparation".
Frank van Oort
Frank van Oort (Erasmus School of Economics) is project leader of the multidisciplinary research group that has been awarded an NWO ZonMw COVID-19 research grant. Together with the consortium partners, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Oort will investigate the societal effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the (intended) measures for mitigation.
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a research grant from i-PUSH/Nationale Postcode Loterij for her research project “Mobile Technologies and Universal Health Coverage in Kenya”.
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, reeived a research grant from the Joep Lange Institute and Health Insurance Fund - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (€ 50,000) on “The economics and psychology of the COVID-19 epidemic in Kenya”
Bo Andree
Bo Andree, PhD student at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received the DEC VPU award in recognition of outstanding work on analytical support to World Bank Operations. Granting Organisation: World Bank
Siem Jan Koopman
Siem Jan Koopman (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has been appointed as the 2019-2020 Laureate of the Francqui Chair, at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Bo Andree
Bo Andree (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the World Bank Spot Award for work on predicting food crises Granting Organisation: World Bank
Peter Wakker
As part of its 50th anniversary, the Journal of Economic Theory presents a special issue that includes the 50 most influential papers the journal has published over the years. One of these selected papers is "An index of loss aversion", written by Peter Wakker (Erasmus School of Economics) together with Veronika Köbberling.
Xuan Wang
Xuan Wang (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is ECB Young Economist's competition finalist. Every year the European Central Bank invites young economists to enter its research competition. Finalists are invited to the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking, and the overall winner is awarded €10,000.