Wendy Janssens
Research grant from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000) to organize an international brainstorm workshop on “Maternal health and digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Jan Stoop
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Jan Stoop (Erasmus School of Economics) for his project "Measuring poverty with envelopes". This project deepens our knowledge on poverty using novel field experiments.
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".
Bo Andree
Bo Andree (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Nadia Piffaretti (Senior Economist at the World Bank) won a grant with their proposal to develop and pilot methods to nowcast real-time conditions in fragile countries. The grant was awarded under the Disruptive Technology Initiative. The goal is to identify and pilot scalable disruptive technology solutions in World Bank Group (Bank Group) operations to maximize their development impact.
Pauline Rossi
Pauline Rossi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received a grant by the Templeton Foundation for her Burkina Faso Family Aspirations Study (co-PI).
Chen Li
Assistant Professor Chen Li of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an EUR Fellowship for her research project "Identifying and Reducing Biases under Social Uncertainty". With the EUR Fellowship Erasmus University Rotterdam is supporting talented researchers at the early stage of their academic career. The fellowship consists of a grant of € 135,000, to carry out research for a maximum of two years.
Cars Hommes, Cees Diks, Jan Tuinstra
A consortium of 7 European Universities starts an Innovative Training Network (ExSIDE) with the aim to improve our understanding of the role of expectation formation and social influence for economic dynamics and for the optimal design of economic policy. The total sum for the project is € 3,800,000; € 500,000 is for the University of Amsterdam.
Egle Karmaziene
Egle Karmaziene (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a grant from Nasdaq Nordic Foundation for independent research to study stock liquidity in segmented markets.
Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) obtained the prestigious research chair to analyze climate economics, innovation and policy as part of the Canada 150 Research Chairs funds. The Chair is created for a seven-year term and is invested through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Utz Weitzel
The Financial Management Journal has granted the Top 3 paper award to Utz Weitzel (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper: “Sold Below Value? Why Takeover Offers Can Have Negative Premiums."
Albert J. Menkveld
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS) has awarded the Best Paper Award to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper "Crowded Positions: An Overlooked Systemic Risk for Central Clearing Parties" received."
Eva Janssens, Frank Kleibergen
Research Master student Eva Janssens has been awarded a three-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Estimation and Identification of Parameters in Macroeconomic Models with Incomplete Markets". The project will be supervised by research fellows Frank Kleibergen and Christian Stoltenberg, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
Arthur Schram, Katharina Brütt
Research Master student Katharina Brütt has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Endogenous Group Formation and Decision-Making". The project will be supervised by research fellows Arthur Schram and Joep Sonnemans, at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision making (CREED) at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
José Luis Moraga-González, Rik Letterie
Research Master student Hendrik (Rik) Letterie has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Reform in the Dutch Market for Long-Term Care: Quantifying the Benefits of Choice and Price-Cap Regulation". The project will be supervised by research fellow J.L. Moraga González, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere
A consortium of European research partners, including TI Fellows Eric Bartelsman and Sabien Dobbelaere from School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, were awarded a grant for a three year Horizon 2020 research project. The project, Raising EU Productivity: Lessons from Improved Micro Data (MicroProd), will examine the empirical observation that productivity growth in the developed world has slowed down in the past decade despite both continuation of technological innovation as well as greater openness to trade.
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.
Geert Mesters
A VENI grant has been awarded to Geert Mesters, TI PhD alumnus and affiliate researcher at the School of Business and Economics (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his project "Testing Networks".
Bastian Ravesteijn
Bastian Ravesteijn has been awarded a LEaDing fellowship for two years. The LEaDing Fellows Programme provides 90 researchers from all over the world who recently obtained a PhD, with the opportunity to gain two years of work experience in the challenging, internationally acclaimed and multidisciplinary environment offered by Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Centre and Delft University of Technology.
Ceren Ozgen, Hans Koster
Description: Hans Koster and former colleague Ceren Ozgen were awarded the IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies) Vanguard Fellowship of the University of Birmingham for their research proposal on ‘Skills Mismatch’. The Vanguard Fellowship Programme aims to attract outstanding early and mid-career researchers from global leading institutions, operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines, to work collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Birmingham. Research focuses on new and existing areas - topics that are timely, relevant, address national and international priorities, and cross disciplinary boundaries. Granting Organisations: University of Birmingham
Eric Koomen
Eric Koomen (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is responsible for developing the land use and transport modelling environment within the new research project SIMETRI. The research project SIMETRI (Sustainable Mobility and Equality in mega-ciTy RegIons: patterns, mechanisms and governance) brings together researchers from UCL, Birkbeck University of London, King’s College London, VU Spatial Economics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University. SIMETRI will develop a world-class science platform relevant to political decision-makers responsible for housing, transport, employment and urban development in the world’s biggest mega-city region, the Pearl River Delta Greater Bay Area. The platform integrates work on inequality indicators and predicting future land use and transport developed in western Europe in London and the Randstad with related work in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, producing a system that will use state-of-the-art simulation models, big data from routine transport, and new ways of using information technology for participatory governance. SIMETRI is funded by the NSFC JPI Urban Europe programme. Granting Organisations: NSFC JPI Urban Europe programme