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Results: 21 - 40 of 272
UvA Economics and Business opens new Academic Year with hybrid live lectures for 1500 first-years
2 Sep 2020
UvA Economics and Business (EB) is using hybrid live lectures in the ‘Hybrid Learning Theatre’ to make active participation and interaction possible for 1500 first-year students.
COVID-19 sparks creativity among UvA Economics and Business lecturers
2 Sep 2020
The COVID-19 situation has stimulated a high degree of creativity at UvA Economics and Business (UvA EB). Students have been saying 'Using Zoom the whole day isn’t very inspiring', and 'We really want to come back to ...
Roel Beetsma co-authors paper exploring popular support for EU financial aid
29 Jul 2020
Roel Beetsma (MN Professor of Pension Economics, ASE) recently co-authored a paper published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The paper is based on a survey exploring whether there is popular ...
Schinkel criticizes new guidelines for sustainability and cartels
14 Jul 2020
ASE professor Maarten Pieter Schinkel's commentary on the new Guidelines for Sustainability Agreements issued by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) was recently featured in a number of prominent ...
New elective in Curaçao for EB bachelor's students
14 Jul 2020
Enjoy pearly white beaches and palm trees while you work on a solution for socio-economic issues on a small island. In the new academic year, in the second course period of the first semester, we’ll be launching a ...
Retirees’ (60+) pension benefits insufficiently protected against interest rate fluctuations
9 Jun 2020
There is more interest risk than is desirable in theory when it comes to the current pension contracts of particpants aged 60 or older. This is one of the assertions of researchers Roel Mehlkopf (Tilburg University) ...
Andrea Weihrauch chosen EB Lecturer of the Year
3 Jun 2020
Andrea Weihrauch (ABS assistant professor of Strategy) has been chosen as Lecturer of the Year at UvA Economics and Business.
The power of zero when selling a house
7 May 2020
When Amsterdam real estate buyers were competing for properties, sellers setting asking prices that ended in one or more zeroes achieved higher prices. That was the finding of a new paper, written by a team of ...
In memoriam Arnold Heertje (1934 -2020)
6 Apr 2020
From 1964 until his retirement, Arnold Heertje was a professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Law. From 1997 to 2005 he was also professor by special appointment of Economic History at the UvA’s Faculty of ...
First online UvA PhD defence successfully completed
27 Mar 2020
The UvA’s first ever online PhD defence ceremony took place on Thursday, 26 March, and went well. Zina Lekniūtė successfully defended her thesis on the consequences of underfunding of American pension funds.
Dutch citizens support European solidarity in fighting epidemic
26 Mar 2020
Dutch citizens are prepared to give the European Union a more central role when it comes to fighting an epidemic. This is the result of a survey conducted before the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis by an ...
Article published in Journal of Banking & Finance
13 Mar 2020
The article 'Sectoral Risk Weights and Macroprudential Policy' by Steffi Huber (CeNDEF, UvA) will be published in the Journal of Banking & Finance. Huber co-authored the article with Alexander Hodbod (European ...
CeNDEF welcomes Fabian Greimel
13 Mar 2020
The Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE) successfully filled the vacancy for a tenure track position in 'Financial Stability' during the 2019 European Job Market.
In memoriam: Gerrit Meester (1944-2020)
11 Mar 2020
Gerrit Meester passed away on 27 February as a result of a serious fall suffered at home two days earlier. Gerrit Meester was a professor by special appointment at our faculty until he was accorded emeritus status in ...
ASE professor awarded Vici grant
25 Feb 2020
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros to Roger Laeven, professor of Quantitative Economics at the University of Amsterdam. The grant will enable ...
NWO Vici grants worth 1.5 million euros for three UvA researchers
20 Feb 2020
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vici grants worth 1.5 million euros to UvA researchers Jason Hessels, Christof Monz and Roger Laeven. The grants will enable them to develop ...
ASE alumnus wins H.K. Nieuwenhuis Thesis Award 2019
12 Feb 2020
Luca Mossink was awarded with the H.K. Nieuwenhuis Thesis Award 2019 during ASE NEXT! 2020 for his dissertation ‘Judge Behaviour in a Poetry Competition: humans vs artificial intelligence’. The award also included a ...
ASE researchers nominated for Antitrust Writing Award 2020
4 Feb 2020
The article ' Discretionary Authority and Prioritizing in Government Agencies', written by UvA Economics and Business researchers Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Jan Tuinstra and Lukaš Tóth, has been nominated for the ...
Winners Van der Schroeff Award and the Joop Hartog Dissertation Award
30 Jan 2020
The Van der Schroeff Award 2019 for the best lecturer at UvA Economics and Business was awarded to Dr. Pushpika Vishwanathan and Dr. Georgia Romagnoli for their efforts and success in innovation on both bachelors and ...
ASE alumnus wins 2020 Netspar thesis award
29 Jan 2020
MSc Econometrics and Actuarial Science & Mathematical Finance alumnus (2018) Bas Temme was presented with the Netspar thesis award for his thesis ‘Life-Cycle Investment Design: Strategies for Dutch top-up plans’.
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