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Academic Distinction
Albert J. Menkveld ranked first in the 2020 Dutch Economists Top 40

Albert J. Menkveld ranked first in the 2020 Dutch Economists Top 40. The Economist Top 40 (economentop) is a list of the best publishing economists in the Netherlands published annually by ESB magazine (Economisch Statistische Berichten). The list is based on all peer-reviewed published articles by Dutch economists between January 2015 and December 2019. In total 22 TI fellows are listed in the 2020 rankings: Albert J. Menkveld (1), Thomas Buser (3), Peter Wakker (6), Patrick Verwijmeren (7), Siem Jan Koopman (8), Bas van der Klaauw (9), Andre Lucas (10), Aurelien Baillon (11), Pieter Gautier (12), Cars Hommes (15), Han Bleichrodt (17), Jos van Ommeren (18), Theo Offerman (19), Jan van Ours (20), Arthur Schram (21), Utz Weitzel (22), Hans Koster (24), Olivier Marie (26), Hessel Oosterbeek (27), Erik Verhoef (30), Vladimir Vladimirov (33), Sjoerd van Bekkum (37),

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World Bank DEC VPU Award 2020 for PHD student 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

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Horizon 2020 funding for Sander Onderstal and Joep Sonnemans

Sander Onderstal and Joep Sonnemans (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) have been awarded an EU Horizon 2020 grant for their project "Improving Sustainability in Food Processing using Moderate Electric Fields for Process Intensification and Smart Processing." The grant was awarded to a consortium of seven European universities: coordinating institution University College Dublin (Ireland), Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), Technical University of Valencia (Spain), Lund University (Sweden), TU Berlin (Germany), and the University of Amsterdam. The total amount received for the project is € 1,300,000 euros, with € 250,000 allocated to the University of Amsterdam. The Dutch part of the grant will be covered by NWO's (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) natural sciences domain (ENW).

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LISS Grant 2020 awarded to Robert Dur and Benedetta Ricci

LISS Grant 2020 for project Policy Experimentation Aversion by research fellow Robert Dur and Benedetta Ricci (both Erasmus School of Economics). Via the grant, the researchers will get access to free panel time. The LISS panel, managed by CentERdata, gives researchers access to survey data from about 7,000 respondents from approximately 4,500 households.

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EU Horizon 2020 Grant awarded to Eric Bartelsman and 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.

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CAED 2020 Seminar: Salomé Baslandze (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

On January 29, 2021 there will be a CAED 2020 seminar on the topic of Patents to Products: Product Innovation and Firm Dynamics.

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CAED 2020 Seminar: Fabiano Schivardi (LUISS University, Italy)

Tinbergen Institute and the program of Business Data Science jointly host the Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) online seminar series, which this year takes...

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Horizon 2020 grant for TI fellows Amsterdam School of Economics

Research fellows Cars Hommes, Joep Sonnemans, Cees Diks, Jan Tuinstra, Florian Wagener, Marco van der Leij, Isabelle Salle, and Aljaz Ule have been awarded a Horizon 2020...

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Tinbergen Institute Econometrics Lectures 2020: Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton University) will give the Tinbergen Institute Econometrics Lectures 2020. The Lectures have been moved to November 2021 due to COVID19. More...

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Horizon 2020 funding for fellows Sander Onderstal and Joep Sonnemans

Research fellows Sander Onderstal and Joep Sonnemans have been awarded an EU Horizon 2020 grant for ‘Improving Sustainability in Food Processing using Moderate Elec...

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Albert J. Menkveld ranked first in the 2020 Dutch Economists Top 40

The Economist Top 40 (economentop)  is a list of the best publishing economists in the Netherlands published annually by ESB magazine (Economisch Statistische B...

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EU Horizon 2020 funding for Cars Hommes, Cees Diks and 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.

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CAED 2020 Seminar: Sabien Dobbelaere (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Chen Yeh (FRB Richmond, United States)

On April 30, 2021 there will be a CAED 2020 seminar entitled 'Estimating Labor Market Imperfections'.

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Fellow Stefan Stremersch winner of the EMAC Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award 2020

Research fellow Stefan Stremersch, Professor of Marketing at Erasmus School of Economics, is the winner of the EMAC Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award 2020 Opens exter...

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CAED 2020 Seminar: Lucia Foster (CES, United States) and Ryan Decker (FRB, United States)

On October 30 at 14:00 CEST there will be a seminar on the topic of High Frequency Business Dynamics. This seminar is part of the Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data...

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EU Horizon 2020 grant for fellows Cars Hommes, Cees Diks and Jan Tuinstra

Research fellows Cars Hommes, Cees Diks and Jan Tuinstra have been awarded a new EU Horizon 2020 grant for `Expectations and Social Influence Dynamics in Economics (ExSID...

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Magdalena Rola-Janicka awarded 2020 Best Job Market Paper in Finance Theory

Every year since 2011, the Finance Theory Group awards prizes for the best theory papers on the finance job market. The annual award is granted by a dedicated award commi...

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Alexandra Rusu First TI Defense Online

On 27 March 2020, the first online defense of a TI student took place.