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Economic Growth and the Volatility of Foreign Aid
The Spatial Economics Department (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will be involved in a large project on the evaluation of the opening of the Noord-Zuidlijn, jointly and in close collaboration with research groups at UvA, CWI, and AMS; and with Gemeente Amsterdam. Research here at the Department will focus on a number of themes: effects on traveller behaviour and valuations; on real estate values, on labour markets, and on accessibility Granting Organisations: Gemeente Amsterdam
The department of Spatial Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – with Erik Verhoef as project leader - has received funding within the NWO ZonMW COVID-19 bottom-up research programme for their project ‘Mobility during and after corona lockdown: sustainability, safety, inclusiveness (abbreviated as MOCOLODO).
PhD student Kieran Marray was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minor Grant in Mesoeconomics together with Xianglong Kong (University of Chicago), Kathryn McDonald (Columbia University), Peter Öhlinger (Johannes Kepler University), and Ruochen Dai (Central University of Finance and Economics) for the project titled "Place-Based Industrial Policy in Endogenous Production Networks".
Adversarial economic preferences predict right-wing voting
Paul Pelzl, a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has accepted a four-year tenure track Assistant Professor position at Norwegian School of Economics. He wil...
Zichen Deng, PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway.
As of 1 July 2023, Jonneke Bolhaar has been appointed as parttime (0.2 fte) Professor of Economic Policy, Human Capital and Labour at Erasmus School of Economics. Bolhaar combines this position with her senior position as Head of Department Labour, Education and Innovation at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
The two participating teams with students of the research master program in Economics took home first and second place in the National Economics Olympiad (NEO), a problem-solving competition for Bachelor and Master students in Economics, that was held completely remotely on March 5. TI Research master students Antonia Kurz and Yasmine van der Straten (on photo), together with Andrea Pogliano from the Erasmus University Rotterdam got first place. The team comprised of TI research master students Aishameriane Schmidt, Andrea Titton and Oliver Feltham took the second place.
Interview with Guido Imbens (The Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States).
From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Evolutionary Theories in Environmental and Resource Economics: Approaches and Applications