Urban Economics

Agenda

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  Lubos Smutka and Karel Malec (Czech University of Life Sciences): Volatility and liquidity on commodity markets 26 February 2019 - In todays markets, commodities are frequently characterized by an increasing trend in the long term. There were significant fluctuations of commodity...
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  Michail Moatsos (UU): The confidence level of the first millennium development goal 05 March 2019 - The dollar-a-day method, applied in monitoring the UN's development goals against poverty, provides no confidence interval for the official figures of...
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  Jan Gerrit Deelen (OECD): The OECD, at the crossroads between science and politics 08 March 2019 - Throughout its history, the OECD has assisted countries in fostering good governance and reforming and improving their economic policies to generate...
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  Bram van Besouw (UU): Death at a Distance? Warfare and civilian mortality in theseventeenth-century Low Countries 12 March 2019 - Using newly collected data from burial records and war events in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, we test the intuitive links between warfare...
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  Belinda Archibong (Barnard College): 'An ill wind that blows no girl any good'. The Impacts of climate-induced disease on gender inequality 14 March 2019 - Despite notable investments in education, persistent gender gaps in educational attainment remain in developing countries. One potential explanation...
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  Jasper Meya (University of Oldenburg): Inter- and intragenerational distribution and the valuation of natural capital 19 March 2019 - This paper studies how the intra- and intergenerational distribution of income affects the economic valuation of non-use environmental public goods...
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  XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019 11 September 2019

Vacancy

Highlights

• 14 January 2019 werkconferentie ‘Nederland veranderd/t’ - Tijdens de werkconferentie ‘Nederland veranderd/t’, op 3 december in de Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam, gingen vakgenoten en professionals...
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  14 March 2018 The scientific reflection group for population decline will get to work! - On the initiative of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the Knowledge Platform Demographic Transition (KDT), this reflection group...
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  26 July 2017 Executive Board appoints new professor Urban Economics - Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen has been appointed as chair of the Urban Economics Group at Wageningen University & Research as per October 1, 2017....