Agenda
Coming up
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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... -
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... -
International Students Summit (ISS) - Every BSc-student at Wageningen University is invited to apply for the position of student representative of Wageningen University to the 18th ISS... -
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...
Past activities
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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... -
Fedes van Rijn: Does certification improve hired labour conditions and wageworker conditions at banana plantations? - Certification of banana plantations is widely used as a device for protecting and improving socio-economic conditions of wage labourers, including... -
Liesbeth de Schutter: Monitoring the performance of the EU bioeconomy in society - Aiming at low carbon pathways and sustainable growth, the EU has embarked on a bioeconomy strategy to replace building blocks in the fossil economy by... -
Özge Öner: When Weak Ties are Strong. Ethnic enclaves, information frictions, and labor market sorting of immigrants - In this paper, we investigate the effects of ethnic enclaves on the economic prospects of newly arrived immigrants. Using a geo-coded full population... -
Moritz Drupp: Relative prices and climate policy. How the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation - We study how the scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities, affects the economic appraisal of climate policy. To this end, we... -
Joachim de Weerdt: Paying More For Less. Why don't households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts - Despite average daily per-capita consumption of roughly $1, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. -
Bruhan Konda: Social heterogeneity, benefit heterogeneity and public good provision - Ethnic identity and differences in social power between ethnic groups play a crucial role in determining the success of a collective action. While... -
Marrit van den Berg: Not my job - Both peer-to-peer punishment and institutions that sanction free-riders can lead to the more efficient provision of public goods. However, financial... -
Linde Götz: Egypt’s Wheat Tenders. A Public Noticeboard for Black Sea Grain Notations? - In season 2017/18, Russia is once more projected to become the world’s top wheat exporter. Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, is... -
Jan Kok and Luc Bulten: Colonial population censuses in 18th Ceylon - RHI SEMINAR
Dutch Ceylon in the eighteenth century offers a fine opportunity to study the dynamics of administrative control of everyday family life... -
Maarten Voors: Healthcare Delivery during crises - The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest ever recorded. Post-mortems on the crisis assert that engaged and accountable health... -
Eric Verhoef: Trading Trips. Using Tradable Permits to Manage Urban Mobility - The idea to use tradable permits for the regulation of road transport externalities has been around for already quite some time (e.g., Verhoef et al.,... -
Renate Hartwig: Eliciting the Willingness to Pay for Eyeglasses - In this paper, we assess the willingness to pay for eyeglasses in rural Burkina Faso. We use a variant of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) method to... -
Information session about Buitex 2018 to Kaposvar, Hungary (YSS21303) - Information session on March 19 about the European bilateral exchange programme, meant for third year students from the BSc programmes 'Bedrijfs-en...