On Thursday 5 July, the 16,000th doctoral thesis defence ceremony will take place at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Thomas de Haan will obtain his doctorate under Prof. Theo Offerman of the Faculty of Economics ...

On Friday 8 June, Prof. Michael Ellman received the ‘Stapenning’ honorary award from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) during a special event marking his departure as Professor of Economic Systems with special ...

Primary school is a fertile ground for developing entrepreneurial skills. These are the finding of the study 'The effect of early entrepreneurship education' conducted by the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship ...

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has accepted nine proposals from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) as part of the Research Talent subsidy programme of the NWO Division of Social Sciences ...

Faculty of Humanities researcher Lodewijk Petram has been awarded the Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize 2012.

Most subprime mortgages in the US were issued to members of the middle classes. The current perception that most subprime mortgages in the US were sold to lower-income groups is thus inaccurate. This is one of the ...

The Dutch cabinet has named three University of Amsterdam (UvA) professors as Crown-appointed members of the Social Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER). Barbara Baarsma, Aukje Nauta and Evert Verhulp will serve ...