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Veni grant for Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich

Date:17 October 2024
Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich has received a Veni grant of 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The newly appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business’ Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance was awarded the grant for his research on the distribution of colonial profits in the Netherlands.
Professors Abe de Jong (left) and Herman de Jong (right)

Grant for ICT Innovation Project

Date:06 February 2024

Professors Abe de Jong and Herman de Jong received a grant of 160,000 euro for a UG ICT Innovation Fund Proposal titled Digitization of printed registries to structured data. The project’s idea is to deliver a machine learning-powered online platform to...

Structural Transformation and Economic Growth

Grant for investigating Structural Change in sub-Saharan Africa

Date:09 February 2023

Hagen Kruse and Gaaitzen de Vries, together with Kei-Mu Yi and Yabo Vidogbena (both at the University of Houston), have obtained a research grant from STEG/CEPR. They will take a quantitative modelling approach to investigate the driving forces of...

Jutta Bolt

Grant for investigating long-term disease patterns in Africa between 1850 and 1960

Date:03 February 2022

Jutta Bolt has been awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellows prolongation grant for five years to investigate historical disease patterns in Africa. The current pandemic is a forceful reminder of the global importance of good health for all. But at the same...

Grant for historical investigation into function of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange

Date:06 May 2021

Herman de Jong received a large NWO-OC grant funding a project to investigate the function of the Amsterdam stock exchange during the period 1870-1940. The aim of this project is to probe the stock exchange’s contribution to corporate finance and economic...

Grant for digitising Dutch financial market information since 1796

Date:08 June 2020

Herman de Jong received a large grant for building a new Dutch database holding Dutch corporate and stock exchange data for the period 1796-1980. The grant is awarded by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Science) in cooperation with digital infrastructures...

Groningen co-leads major international project on Structural Change and Economic Growth

Date:04 March 2020

For low-income countries to develop, their economies need to transform from rural and agricultural to urban and industrialised. In many sub-Saharan countries, urbanization to date has outpaced industrialization and structural change has largely been from...

ESRC

ESRC grants on Brexit consequences

Date:18 April 2017

Marcel Timmer and Bart Los are contributors to two of the 25 winning consortia that will conduct research on the consequences of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union for the British ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). Timmer will...

Digging into Data challenge

'Big data' grant: online prices & living standards

Date:29 March 2017

The Transatlantic Platform has awarded a Digging into Data grant of €375,000 to an international team of researchers, with the team for the Netherlands led by Robert Inklaar and also including Marcel Timmer. The grant is awarded for a project to use online...

Start of the post-WIOD VICI project of Marcel Timmer

Date:01 September 2015
Author:Robert Inklaar

The VICI project "Modelling Global Value Chains, a new framework to study trade, jobs and income inequality in an interdependent world" has started. This 5-year project involving a team of PhD students and post docs is led by Marcel Timmer and funded by...