Placement Yasmine van der Straten: Nova School of Business and Economics
Yasmine van der Straten, a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam, has secured a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in Finance at Nova School of Business and Economics, where she will begin in September 2025.
Yasmine earned her Research Master's in Economics from Tinbergen Institute in 2021 before starting a PhD at the Amsterdam Business School. She is supervised by research fellows Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) and Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford and University of Amsterdam).
In her research, Yasmine examines whether climate risk is priced in housing - and financial markets, and how market incentives and financing frictions shape our response to climate change through adaptation and mitigation. Yasmine also examines the resulting distributional consequences, and the implications for political support for climate policies.
Link to personal website: Yasmine van der Straten.