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Peter van Kampen

Greenmapper: turning research into an app to allow nature-lovers a voice

Date:13 July 2017
Author:Peter van Kampen

Peter van Kampen works at Energysense at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at the newly developed branch office of UG in Papenburg, and at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences with a research interest in measuring preferences and developing web based or...

Tristan Kohl is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business

What Brexit will do to UK trade

Date:21 June 2017

Faculty of Economics and Business economists Tristan Kohl, Steven Brakman, and Harry Garretsen analysed what would happen to UK trade after it leaves the European Union.

Dirk Pieter van Donk is a Professor in Operations Management at the University of Groningen.

Solving problems for a clean, local source of energy

Date:19 June 2017
Author:Dirk Pieter van Donk

Bio-diesel promises to be a clean option to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, it is still costly. Often, oil suited for consumption is used for it, putting pressure on food supply. With a rising world population, the idea of using food as a source...

Jochen Mierau is associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen

We need a school of public health to tackle the new frontier in medicine: inequality

Date:13 June 2017

Poorer people have worse health outcomes than richer people. This is true not just in the Netherlands, but internationally. We see the inequality both between countries, and within them. Even when people have the same health care system, poorer people...

Samuele Murtinu is associate professor in the Department of Innovation, Management & Strategy at the Faculty of Economics and Business, the University of Groningen.

The Bank of England must not pump money into the UK economy due to Brexit

Date:15 May 2017
Author:Samuele Murtinu

No sooner had the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union than calls began for the Bank of England to pump money into the economy to avoid deflation.

Greg Fuller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen

How an economist predicted today’s politics in 1944

Date:11 May 2017
Author:Greg Fuller

If markets don’t produce outcomes in line with what voters want – and if politicians won’t (or can’t) address those problems – people tend to reach for more radical solutions.

Laura Maruster is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business and a researcher at the Vinci centre of expertise.

Mind your business process? Mine your data!

Date:03 May 2017

Data is collected nowadays about anything, at any time, and at any place. The explosion of data is changing the way organizations capture data, analyze information, make decisions, and create value. But how to deal with so much data, and often, messy...

The research project was conducted by the Department of Innovation Management and Strategy of the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from the Copenhagen Business School and the University of Lisbon.

The closure of Multinational Subsidiaries: Is there a silver lining?

Date:02 May 2017
Author:Pedro de Faria

A closure of a subsidiary of a multinational company is an event that has deep economic and societal impact in the affected region, as it often leaves a shadow of unemployment. However, it, according to a recent research project done in collaboration...

Niels Holtrop defended his PhD thesis in March 2017.

Privacy and marketing opportunities can be balanced

Date:19 April 2017
Author:Niels Holtrop

Niels Holtrop explains how he developed a statistical model allowing companies to collect consumer data safely for his doctorate at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Economics and Business.

Killian McCarthy

We should put pressure on PPG to come up with a plan for AkzoNobel

Date:07 April 2017
Author:Killian McCarthy

Imagine a man walks up to a woman and, without introducing himself, proposes marriage. Because the woman doesn’t know the man, and because she has a somewhat different plan for her life, she declines the offer. How many of us would object to her doing so?...