Agenda
Coming up
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Bjorn van Campenhout (KU Leuven, IFPRI): Designing for effectiveness and inclusivity in video-enable agricultural extension - In agricultural extension programs, seemingly small design attributes — the way the information is delivered, who delivers the information, or... -
José Zofio (U Autonoma de Madrid and U Rotterdam): Introducing Economic Inefficiency Measurement with Bad Outputs - In this study we introduce the measurement of environmental inefficiency from an economic perspective that integrates, in addition to marketed good... -
Daniel Slunge (U Göteborg): Market-based instruments in chemicals management, a good idea or not? - Many chemical substances cause significant diffuse emissions when emitted over wide areas at individually low concentrations. These emissions are... -
An anatomy of colonial states and fiscal regimes in Portuguese Africa: Long-term transformations in Angola and Mozambique, 1850s-1970s K (Kleoniki) Alexopoulou Giannakitsa MSc
Past activities
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Isabelle Bonjean (KU Leuven, Belgium): Who are the loss-averse farmers? - Farmers have to take decisions in a highly risky world. Their behavior under risk typically results from the combination of the level of their risk... -
Arnoud Boot (UvA, Dutch Central Bank): (More than) changing finance and financing change - Whether we like it or not, financiers are indispensable for a transition to a green economy. Yet the incentives of financial institutions and the role... -
Joost de Laat (U Utrecht): Cash for carbon - A cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) conservation program in Uganda that ran from 2011 to 2013... -
Rinchan Ali Mirza: Displacement and Development - The partition of British India in 1947 into India and Pakistan led to the largest
episode of mass displacement in recorded history. I use refugee... -
Governance of Small-scale Irrigation Schemes in Northern Ghana. The Role of User Groups Margaret MA (Margaret) Akuriba
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Wändi Bruine de Bruin: Age differences in decision-making competence - Population age is steadily increasing in countries around the world. Decisions about personal finances, retirement, and health are becoming... -
Saving Energy When Others Pay the Bill dr. AM (Anouk) Griffioen
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Martijn Huysmans: Exporting Protection - Starting with the 2009 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, the EU has achieved increased external protection for some of its Geographical... -
Christine Binzel: Economic Development, Trust, and Social Norms -
Agro-clusters for Rural Development in the Indonesian Province of West Java D (Dadan) Wardhana
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Maria Vrachioli: Impact evaluation of alternative irrigation technology in Crete - The interest in promoting food and water security through development projects has led to the need for tools that can evaluate the impact of these... -
Erik Ansink: Crowdfunding public goods, an experiment - We assess the success of crowdfunding public goods using a lab-in-the-field experiment. Our aim is to decrease coordination problems that may occur... -
Kutay Cingiz: Perfect information games where each player acts only once - We study perfect information games played by an infinite sequence of players, each acting only once in the course of the game. We introduce a class of... -
Urban-Rural Synergies: the best out of two worlds? - Urban-Rural Synergies: the best out of two worlds?
In the light of current challenges, such as the energy transition and the circular economy, the... -
Inauguration prof. dr. ir. ES (Eveline) van Leeuwen - September 13, Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen, chair of the Urban Economics group, will give her inaugural lecture titled 'Urban-rural interactions: more... -
Francis Ostermeijer: Thinking like an economist? A quantitative analysis of economics bachelor curricula in the Netherlands - This research evaluates from what perspectives Dutch economics students are taught to understand the economy. It is based on a comprehensive content... -
Gerard van der Meijden: OPEC, Shale Oil, and Global Warming - On the importance of the order of extraction - We show that OPEC’s market power contributes to global warming by enabling producers of relatively expensive and dirty oil to start producing...
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Jun-Ichi Itaya: Existence, Uniqueness, and Algorithm for Identifying Free Riders in Multiple Public Good Games -
Eveline van Leeuwen will give the RSPP plenary lecture at the 58th ERSA congress in Cork -
Robert Finger: Innovative insurance solutions: prospects and challenges for European agriculture - Extreme weather events such as drought, heat waves and excess rainfall constitute an important and increasing source of risk for crop and livestock...