NWO Research Talent Program Awards Grants to Ilke Aydogan, Travers Child and Christiaan van der Kwaak
TI MPhil students Ilke Aydogan and Travers Child and TI PhD student Christiaan van der Kwaak have been awarded three-year grants by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) to fund their PhD projects.
Ilke Aydogan will be funded for his research project entitled: ‘Decisions from Experience and a Descriptive Study of Ambiguity’. This project combines a new ambiguity (decisions with unknown probabilities) theory (source method for prospect theory) with the new decisions-from-experience theory (DFE). Supervisor is TI fellow Professor P.P. Wakker (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
Travers Child has been awarded for his research project ‘Economics and political violence’. Though political violence has been examined by economists, seldom have researchers questioned the supposedly beneficial relationship between economic development and political violence. Supervisor is TI fellow and Associate Professor R.H. Oostendorp (VU University Amsterdam).
Christiaan van der Kwaak received a grant for his research project ‘Alternative fiscal and monetary policies under financial fragility and sovereign default risk in a currency union (eurozone)’. In the proposed research we will investigate the intermingling of financial crises and sovereign default risk. Supervisor is TI fellow Professor S.J.G. van Wijnbergen (University of Amsterdam).