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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Mathematical economist, Cars Hommes, Professor of Economic Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, wins the sixth Distinguished Lorentz Prize.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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. ...

The European claims specialist Van Ameyde Group will provide a € 150,000 grant for doctoral research in 'Economic and Statistical Aspects of Insurance Fraud'.

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 ...