Section Economics
We aim to be a key player in research and education on economics of sustainable development. We aspire to produce output that is both socially and academically relevant.
Agenda
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David de la Croix (UCLouvain): ''67,000 European university professors and academicians: human capital, mobility, families, and religion from 1000 CE to 1800 CE''
19 March 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday March 19, David de la Croix (UCLouvain, Belgium) will give a seminar entitled ''67,000 European university professors and academicians: human... -
Calumn Hamilton (University of Groningen): “Foreign Aid and Structural Change''
26 March 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday March 26, Calumn Hamilton (University of Groningen) will give a seminar entitled “Foreign Aid and Structural Change."
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Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University): “Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor’s Impact on the First Labor Unions."
02 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 2, Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University) will give a seminar entitled “Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor’s Impact on the First... -
Arnab Basu(Cornell University): ''Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India''
11 April 2024 - Seminar - Thursday April 11, Arnab Basu (Cornell University) will give a seminar entitled ''Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India''
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Tongzhe Li (University of Guelph): ''Rooted in Local Soil, Not Swept byGlobal Wind: A Field Experiment on Impure Public Goods''
16 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 16, Tongzhe Li (University of Guelph) will give a seminar entitled: ''Rooted in Local Soil, Not Swept by Global Wind: A Field Experiment... -
RHI Seminar: Mary Elisabeth Cox
02 May 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to an additional RHI Seminar. The speaker is Mary Elisabeth Cox from CEU Vienna.
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RHI Seminar: Xabier Garcia Fuente
16 May 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of May. Our speaker for this month is Xabier Garcia Fuente from the University of Barcelona.
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RHI Seminar: Rebecca Simson
13 June 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of June. Our speaker for this month is Rebecca Simson from the University of Oxford.
The seminar will take...
News
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Assessing Economic Policies Using the Real Options Methodology - 3 ECTS
27 January 2023 -
Call for papers: The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands
06 December 2023 -
Verwachte uitspraak Europese Hof biedt mogelijkheden situatie-specifieke veiligheid-analyse nieuwe rassen
19 June 2018 -
e-AgriMBA project presented to the president of Moldova
06 September 2023 -
Jack Peerlings elected as Secretary General of The European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)
04 September 2023
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Chair Groups belonging to the Section Economics
Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy
The main research focus of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group (AEP) is the economic analysis of agriculture, food and rural areas.
Special attention is given to:
• production, trade, processing and consumption of agricultural and food products
• the development of rural areas
• agricultural, rural and food policies
• institutional and organisational aspects of agriculture and rural areas.
Development Economics
The mission of the Development Economics Group (DEC) is to contribute to an improved understanding of the processes of sustainable development, institutions, conflict and poverty alleviation. To this end, DEC selects teaching material and focuses on research that can shed light on the dynamics of factor productivity and resource use in developing countries.
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The Environmental Economics Group (ENR) focuses at the economic analysis of national and international environmental problems, such as climate change, water management, biotechnology, and biodiversity. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of these problems and to identify possible solutions, including policy recommendations.
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The mission of the Economic and Environmental History Group (RHI) is to offer temporal depth to societal debates and social theories on sustainable and equitable welfare development. We apply comparative historical methods to better understand long-term patterns of interdependence between people, institutions and environments. Our empirical work builds on a combination of qualitative sources and large statistical datasets, which we construct from historical archives across the globe. Our current research projects focus on Africa, Asia and Western Europe (c. 1500-2000).
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The number of people living in urban environments is increasing rapidly. The mission of the Urban Economics (UEC) group is to contribute to more resilient cities in terms of social equality, economic advantages and environmental quality. Therefore, UEC focusses on two main themes: sustainable consumption and urban-rural interactions. We use insights from general-, urban- and behavioural economics to improve the understanding of consumer and household decision making concerning sustainability, health and well-being and the impacts at the individual, urban and regional level.
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