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  • Albert Jan Hummel receives Veni grant for research on labor-market policies

    Albert Jan Hummel

    Albert Jan Hummel (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Designing labor-market policies when firms are heterogeneous'. With this project Hummel aims to shed light on how redistributive policies affect labor-market outcomes if differences between firms are taken into account and the consequences for the optimal design of these policies.

  • Thomas Douenne receives Veni grant for research on the interaction of inequality and climate policy

    Thomas Douenne

    Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'On the design of climate policy: improving fairness and public support'. With this project Douenne aims to answer how to design climate policies that are fair and supported by the public..

  • Ana Figueiredo receives Veni research grant

    Ana Figueiredo

    Research fellow Ana Figueiredo (Erasmus University Rotterdam) has been awarded Veni funding from the NWO (Dutch Research Council). Figueiredo’s Veni project tackles this issue by studying the role of temporary work as a self-insurance mechanism for workers with limited financial resources.

  • Steven Poelhekke obtains NWO Open Competition SSH-M Grant

    Maarten Bosker, Paul Pelzl, Steven Poelhekke

    Research fellow Steven Poelhekke of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has obtained an NWO Open Competition SSH-M grant of €400,000. The project “Restricting raw material exports” includes team members Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam and research fellow) and Paul Pelzl (NHH Norwegian School of Economics and former TI student).

  • NWO Open Competition grant for Eric Bartelsman and Enrico Perotti

    Enrico Perotti, Eric Bartelsman

    Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) and Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been granted NWO funding for their research project 'Understanding the role of IT progress and globalization in economic growth' in the NWO Open Competition - Social Sciences and Humanities. Project: A slowing global economy and steady rise in inequality are threatening social cohesion. The project investigates the role of IT progress and globalization in causing unequal economic growth, and explains puzzling trends in capital and labor markets. It will guide a sustainable policy for economic and financial stability. With the NWO Open Competition-SSH, NWO Social Sciences and Humanities wants to offer researchers the opportunity to carry out research into a subject of their own choosing without any thematic constraints. The funding instrument is intended for senior researchers who may no longer apply for a Veni, Vidi and Vici grant within the Talent Scheme.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Massimo Giuliodori and Lisa Timm

    Lisa Timm, Massimo Giuliodori

    Massimo Giuliodori (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of 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.

  • The Pierson Penning 2020 was awarded to Sweder van Wijnbergen

    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.

  • ‘Nobel Laureates Meet Policy Makers’

    Eric Bartelsman

    To mark the 50th anniversary of Jan Tinbergen’s Nobel Prize, a series of conversations between Nobel Laureates and Dutch policy makers was set up, led by Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Esther-Mirjam Sent (Radboud University). The resulting publication appeared in the series KVS Preadviezen.

  • EU Horizon 2020 Grant awarded to Eric Bartelsman and Sabien Dobbelaere

    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.

  • 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).

  • 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.