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Roel Beetsma appointed supervisor for retail trade sector pension fund
13 Aug 2014
Effective 1 July 2014, Roel Beetsma, chair of the Amsterdam School of Economics, has been appointed as a supervisor for the Industry-level Pension Fund foundation for the retail trade sector.
Amsterdam School of Economics receives two NWO Research Talent grants
24 Jun 2014
Two ASE researchers have received 2014 Research Talent grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Actuarial Science and Mathematical Finance student wins Johan de Witt Publication Prize 2014
24 Jun 2014
Miriam Loois, MSc student in the Actuarial Science and Mathematical Finance section of the Amsterdam School of Economics has won the Johan de Witt Publication Prize 2014.
Cars Hommes elected President of the Society of Computational Economics
24 Jun 2014
In May 2014 UvA Professor Cars Hommes was elected President of the Society of Computational Economics (SCE) for a period of two years.
'Study effectiveness of education and labour market policies’
23 May 2014
“It’s my belief that scientists also have a social mission,” says Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink, Professor Labour Market and Education Economics at UvA’s Amsterdam School of Economics.
Cars Hommes coordinator of EU FP7 research project
16 Apr 2014
Cars Hommes, professor of Economics Dynamics and director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF) has once again succeeded in obtaining an EU FP7 grant for a collaborative project: ...
‘Study macroeconomics with realistic behavioural models'
11 Mar 2014
Nowadays for many of us it’s much easier to imagine the link between ‘chaos and economics’ than in 1999 when this was the title of Cars Hommes’ inaugural address. He referred to scientific chaos, but what is that ...
Smaller classrooms lead to higher adult incomes
11 Mar 2014
A class size reduction from 25 to 20 students provides students on average with over three per cent higher wages when they are between 27 and 42 years old.
Prestige of math and science scares off girls because they are less competitive
11 Mar 2014
What’s the problem with girls and mathematics? Despite many efforts to encourage their enthusiasm for science and technology, there are still only a few female students in technical universities and sciences like ...
Domenico Massaro wins Joop Hartog Thesis award
29 Jan 2014
The annual Joop Hartog Thesis award was presented to Domenico Massaro (Amsterdam School of Economics) for his thesis 'Bounded Rationality and Heterogeneous Expectations in Macroeconomics'. In addition to the award ...
Professor in favour of a more flexible pension system and more risk awareness
17 Jan 2014
“Netspar is first and foremost a scientific network so we don’t have an agenda. We simply identify the facts,” says Casper van Ewijk, the recently appointed general director of the joint think tank of government ...
‘This risk management tool does calculate financial contagion’
17 Jan 2014
The CEO of private bank Van Lanschot, Floris Deckers, already admitted it in 2008; during a parliamentary hearing about the crisis with the captains of the Dutch financial industry, he acknowledged that the risk ...
C. Hommes Distinguished Lorentz Fellow at NIAS
8 Jan 2014
Mathematical economist, Cars Hommes, Professor of Economic Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, wins the sixth Distinguished Lorentz Prize.
A scientist in the role of mortgage watchdog
15 Nov 2013
Maarten Pieter Schinkel, professor of Competition Economics and Regulation at the University of Amsterdam, carries out research into price leadership bans in the Dutch mortgage market imposed by the European ...
Download CenDEF@15 brochure
5 Nov 2013
The Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF) recently held a two-day symposium to mark its 15th anniversary. Now a brochure has been published describing CeNDEF's activities over the years.
Do’s and don’ts of 50 years of budget policy in the Netherlands
11 Sep 2013
According to Roel Beetsma et al we should be pleased with the independent Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). And Dutch budget policy has a number of other strengths that could be of benefit to ...
On Zombie Banks and Recessions after Systemic Banking Crises: It Does Matter How Governments Intervene
21 Jun 2013
Sweder van Wijnbergen and Timotej Homar show how the duration of the recession could be cut in half if the right measures are taken. Now the government is stimulating the formation of zombie banks.
Joop Hartog Dissertation Prize
6 Feb 2013
On January 17, 2013, the Joop Hartog Dissertation Prize was awarded to Petr Sedláček for his thesis “Macroeconomic implications of labor market frictions”, written under the supervision of professor Wouter den Haan. ...
Research grant for Amsterdam Centre for Insurance Studies
27 Nov 2012
The European claims specialist Van Ameyde Group will provide a € 150,000 grant for doctoral research in 'Economic and Statistical Aspects of Insurance Fraud'.
UvA researchers confirm teaching entrepreneurial skills in primary school is useful
17 Aug 2012
Primary school is a fertile ground for developing entrepreneurial skills. The curriculum of The BizWorld Foundation, a national non-profit organisation dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship, business and finance to ...
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