What would a no-deal Brexit mean for the UK?
| Date: | 01 March 2018 |
Is no deal really better than a bad deal? Economists at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Economics and Business used our databases of trade flows between European regions to find out.
Interview: Ward Romeijnders on planning for the unknown
| Date: | 26 February 2018 |
Assistant Professor of Operations Ward Romeijnders was awarded a Veni grant for his project, “Planning for the unknown. Towards optimal decisions under uncertainty.” These personal Veni grants are worth up to a maximum of €250,000 and enable talented...
Interview: Artūras on economic shocks
| Date: | 19 February 2018 |
Assistant Professor of Economics Artūras was awarded a Veni grant for his project, “ We do not live in a bubble: economic shocks in misspecified panel data models ”. The personal Veni grants are worth up to a maximum of €250,000 and enable talented...
Interview: Marijke Leliveld and Hans Risselada on collaborating to study charity giving
| Date: | 12 February 2018 |
| Author: | Riepko Buikema |
A good bottle of wine with an unusual label stands proudly on the table. It says ‘Cheers!’, followed by a summary of an academic article. The message couldn’t be clearer. Marijke Leliveld and Hans Risselada have something to celebrate. Their...
Interview: Yingjie Yuan on how firms can manage 'star' employees
| Date: | 07 February 2018 |
| Author: | Yingjie Yuan |
After spending time in the Netherlands for her PhD, Yingjie Yuan spent several months at Penn State University, only to come back to the Netherlands. She accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Management and Organization Psychology and started her...
Interview: Robert Feenstra on tracking global economic milestones through data
| Date: | 02 February 2018 |
Robert Feenstra is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, and holder of the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics. He gave a keynote address on ‘The ‘China Shock’ in Trade Reconsidered’...
Interview: the OECD’s Dirk Pilat on the importance of data
| Date: | 29 January 2018 |
Dirk Pilat is Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation at the OECD. Prior to his work at the OECD, he earned his PhD in economics in 1994 at the University of Groningen. He spoke at the GGDC Conference 2017 on the OECD’s...
Interview: Ingvild Almås on what microdata can teach us about economic inequality
| Date: | 22 January 2018 |
Ingvild Almås is a professor at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and currently a visiting associate professor at IIES, Stockholm University. Almås’ research focuses on economic inequalities. She delivered a paper on...
25 years of telling the story of the world economy through data
| Date: | 15 January 2018 |
The Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) was founded in 1992 within the Economics Department of the University of Groningen. It recently marked 25 years since its founding, with a jubilee conference on the themes that have long been key to the...
