Teaching robots to speak Gronings: an elderly care experiment
| Date: | 11 July 2019 |
Are elderly people more comfortable with technology if it speaks their language? That's the question Professor Jenny van Doorn will examine in a new project awarded €50,000 in funding from the Idea Generator programme of the Dutch National Research Agenda...
Self-employment can be good for your health
| Date: | 09 July 2019 |
Despite long working hours and high work pressure, entrepreneurs and the self-employed frequently boast high job satisfaction, Milena Nikolova writes in an article about her research for Washington-based non-profit organisation The Brookings Institution.
World-beating results for economics, business and management in Shanghai Ranking
| Date: | 05 July 2019 |
The University of Groningen has climbed close to the top of world rankings in Economics, Business Administration and Management, demonstrating the strength of the Faculty of Economics and Business in education globally.
Econ 050: Green hydrogen
| Date: | 28 June 2019 |
Natural gas has been the Netherlands’ blessing and Groningen’s curse in recent decades. Even as quotas are reduced ever further, earthquakes induced by natural gas extraction continue to jolt the province on a nearly daily basis. But the country and the...
Econ 050: Vaccines and the costs of (in)action
| Date: | 15 June 2019 |
Measles were effectively eradicated in much of the western world decades ago, yet the potentially fatal disease has made a fierce comeback in America and Europe due to growing anti-vaccination movements. What are the health costs of enforcing sufficient...
Econ 050: Groningen - the Dutch Silicon Valley?
| Date: | 04 June 2019 |
What will the northern Netherlands look like in the future? Will it become the next Silicon Valley – and is that something we actually want to become? The tech industry is one of the region’s growing strong suits, but what does that really mean for job...
Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles?
| Date: | 30 May 2019 |
| Author: | Bram Gootjes, Jakob de Haan and Richard Jong-A-Pin |
One of the main premises in the study of Public Choice is that politicians may serve other interests than the general interest. A prime example is the phenomenon that incumbent governments adopt expansionary fiscal policy in election years to increase...
Econ 050: The food industry of the northern Netherlands
| Date: | 28 May 2019 |
Food is an integral part of cultural identity, and moving abroad can often mean finding yourself longing for your favorites from home and missing the social element of a shared meal. But a region’s food scene is also very much an economic and business...
Our employee surveys don’t just look at happiness at work
| Date: | 20 May 2019 |
Econ 050: Do immigrants really 'steal' jobs?
| Date: | 17 May 2019 |
Is there any truth to the claims that immigrants steal jobs from the native population? What is the balance of brain drain and brain gain among member states? Post-doctoral candidate Magda Ulceluse sorts truth from fiction when it comes to migrants, job...