“Investors in green energy make a lot of profit from subsidies”
Date: | 16 April 2021 |
Blackface, Shakespeare and Dutch theatre
Date: | 07 April 2021 |
Over the past years, Coen Heijes’s research has focused on the interrelationship between blackface, race and the theatre industry. Using Shakespeare productions of Othello as a case study, he demonstrated in his latest monograph, published by Cambridge...
Young people, Covid19 and burn-out
Date: | 30 March 2021 |
Since the introduction of the Covid19 pandemic, there has certainly been a discussion about the young people. Young people would feel the consequences of the (intelligent) lock-down even more strongly. They no longer go outside, can no longer meet their...
Why we need more investor dedication
Date: | 25 March 2021 |
Some of the most unique firms such as Tesla and Facebook seem to be concerned about the influence of the capital market on their firms’ strategies. Some time ago, Tesla threatened to delist to pursue a more long-term oriented strategy without the...
How to spend your vacation during Covid19?
Date: | 23 March 2021 |
This past summer, during the covid-19 pandemic, our vacation might not have been what we planned for. You may have chosen a different destination or even opted to stay home. Now that we are looking forward to planning our summer vacation 2021, with the...
Robots to the rescue?
Date: | 16 March 2021 |
Social interaction between robots and humans is something we will have to get used to. In our health care system, investments in these robots are rising, especially during the covid-19 pandemic as it is harder to get enough personnel. The robots can...
Go Vote!
Date: | 09 March 2021 |
The cost of the COVID19 pandemic
Date: | 04 March 2021 |
15 March 2020; the day that the Netherlands went into lockdown. The one-year anniversary is around the corner. What does the COVID19 crisis and the COVID19 vaccinations cost the Netherlands? Maarten Postma, professor of Global Health Economics, does the...
Doing research in times of a pandemic
Date: | 11 February 2021 |
Over the past couple of months, Pedro de Faria’s research was influenced by the covid-19 pandemic. Together with his colleagues, Bart Los and Florian Noseleit, he published two FEB blog articles about the pandemic. FEB Research asked him to tell more about...
Back in Groningen: Gerard van den Berg
Date: | 23 January 2021 |
After his time as a student at the Faculty of Economics, Gerard van den Berg, Professor of Health Econometrics, is back in Groningen. Van den Berg is well-known for his research on the long-run effects of conditions very early in life (economic condition,...