Polarization of the labour market: mainly driven by technological change [video]
| Date: | 03 March 2017 |
On Thursday March 2, Gaaitzen de Vries (assistant professor at the University of Groningen and fellow of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre) gave a lecture in the widely watched World Trade Organization's Trade Dialogues Lectures.
Trump on globalisation: correct diagnosis, wrong solution
| Date: | 01 March 2017 |
The one issue that United States President Donald Trump has been exceptionally clear about is globalisation. He wants to protect the US economy from outside competition, because ‘jobs have disappeared to China’.
ICT — The Next Catalyst of Innovation and Growth for European Firms
| Date: | 22 February 2017 |
Using ICT to innovate is more than investing in computers and software. Systematic strategies must be developed to ensure that ICT investments lead to value creation. Research by John Dong has shown three strategies for firms to successfully innovate with...
The health paradox
| Date: | 17 February 2017 |
Health treatments can be found both "cost effective" and "unaffordable". James Lomas, who visited the University of Groningen this month to give a talk on the issue unpicks this apparent paradox in a guest blog for Healthwise.
Thom de Vries on managing coordination in multiteam systems
| Date: | 07 February 2017 |
Thom de Vries, assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, recently published an article on managing coordination in multiteam systems in Academy of Management Journal. We caught up with him to chat about the article 'Managing...
The Sentiment of the 2017 Election Programmes
| Date: | 06 February 2017 |
In the politics of recent years, emotion has played an important role, and this will be no different during the Dutch general elections in March. How do political parties deal with emotions? In a recent research project, Harry Garretsen and Janka Stoker...
When the evidence doesn’t add up
| Date: | 26 January 2017 |
International development expert Professor Robert Lensink set out to examine a widely-held concept in aid. He found there was little evidence to support it.
Trump: revival or disaster for the US?
| Date: | 25 January 2017 |
What will Donald Trump bring by 2021? Bart van Ark, economist of the New York-based The Conference Board and professor at the University of Groningen, analyses the road ahead.
Trump: revival or disaster for the US?
| Date: | 24 January 2017 |
What will Donald Trump bring by 2021? Bart van Ark, economist of the New York-based The Conference Board and professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Groningen, analyses the road ahead.
How best to regulate companies? Floor Rink investigates
| Date: | 22 January 2017 |
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 exposed problems at corporations that helped derail the global economy. Despite their failings, companies fiercely resisted the idea of tighter regulations.
What does this tell us, and is our current model of regulation...