Agenda
Coming up
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Erik Hornung (University of Cologne): “The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany.”
23 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 23, Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) will give a seminar entitled “The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in... -
Eric Schneider (London School of Economics): “Atmospheric Pollution and Child Morbidity from Respiratory Diseases: Evidence from the London Foundling Hospital 1897-1914.”
30 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 30, Eric Schneider (London School of Economics) will give a seminar entitled “Atmospheric Pollution and Child Morbidity from... -
Edoardo Baldoni (Joint Research Centre, Spain): “Estimating the impact of policies under spatial interference. The case of EU support to organic farming.”
07 May 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday May 7, Edoardo Baldoni (Joint Research Centre, Spain) will give a seminar entitled “Estimating the impact of policies under spatial... -
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: Mary Elisabeth Cox
30 May 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to an additional RHI Seminar. The speaker is Mary Elisabeth Cox from CEU Vienna.
The seminar will take place in room B0077 in... -
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... -
Symposium: ‘‘Will the newly elected European Parliament accelerate the Green Transition?’’
25 June 2024 - Symposium - The symposium will be an in-person event at the World Trade Center in The Hague (the Netherlands) from 13:30 – 16:30 with drinks afterwards....
Past activities
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Urban-Rural Synergies: the best out of two worlds?
14 September 2018 - Seminar - 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... -
Francis Ostermeijer: Thinking like an economist? A quantitative analysis of economics bachelor curricula in the Netherlands
11 September 2018 - Seminar - 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
04 September 2018 - Seminar - We show that OPEC’s market power contributes to global warming by enabling producers of relatively expensive and dirty oil to start producing... -
Jun-Ichi Itaya: Existence, Uniqueness, and Algorithm for Identifying Free Riders in Multiple Public Good Games
28 August 2018 - Seminar -
Robert Finger: Innovative insurance solutions: prospects and challenges for European agriculture
19 June 2018 - Seminar - 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?
14 June 2018 - Seminar - 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
07 June 2018 - Seminar - 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
31 May 2018 - Seminar - 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
24 May 2018 - Seminar - 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
17 May 2018 - Seminar - 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
03 May 2018 - Seminar - 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
26 April 2018 - Seminar - 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?
12 April 2018 - Seminar - 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
10 April 2018 - Seminar - 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
05 April 2018 - Seminar - 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
29 March 2018 - Seminar - 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
22 March 2018 - Seminar - 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)
19 March 2018 - Meeting - Information session on March 19 about the European bilateral exchange programme, meant for third year students from the BSc programmes 'Bedrijfs-en... -
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk: Challenging the de-industrialization thesis
15 March 2018 - Seminar - Many dependency theorists as well as economic historians have contended that nineteenth-century imperial policies and economic globalization... -
Floor Groefsema: Images of the family farm during the formative years of post-war agricultural policy (1945-1970)
13 March 2018 - Seminar - RHI SEMINAR
This paper focuses on the question how the phenomenon of the family farm has been portrayed in policy texts. It concentrates on a...