The economics of gender balance and the Rosalind Franklin Fellowship
| Date: | 24 July 2018 |
The Rosalind Franklin Fellowship is an initiative by the University of Groningen to promote the advancement of talented female researchers. Aimed to redress gender imbalances within academia, the fellowship awards tenure-track positions leading to a...
Thomas Piketty on inequality and globalisation
| Date: | 17 July 2018 |
Thomas Piketty visited the Faculty of Economics and Business to deliver the Maddison Lecture in Economic Growth and Development 2018 on May 23. An economics professor at the Paris School of Economics, Piketty became a global household name in 2014 when his...
How much will your spouse suffer if you become unemployed?
| Date: | 10 July 2018 |
| Author: | Milena Nikolova and Sinem H. Ayhan |
Unemployment can have damaging consequences for individuals and their families. Job loss often means lower income, increased poverty risk, and worse future employment prospects. Evidence from around the world shows that those who are unemployed have worse...
How do expatriates influence employees’ ESOP participation?
| Date: | 05 July 2018 |
| Author: | Jana Oehmichen |
In the modern workplace, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are increasingly seen as important tools of employee satisfaction, retention, and productivity. They present an attractive investment opportunity for employees, who base their investment...
The trade costs of 'making America great again'
| Date: | 21 June 2018 |
| Author: | Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, and Tristan Kohl |
The credo ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) was a key part of the US presidential campaign by Donald Trump in 2016. International trade was an important element of reasoning behind the MAGA slogan. According to Trump, the deficit on the US current account...
The challenges of Business Model Innovation
| Date: | 20 June 2018 |
| Author: | Thijs Broekhuizen, Tom Bakker and Theo Postma |
What do ING and Marlies Dekkers have in common? Not much, at first sight. After all, ING, a Dutch bank, and Marlies Dekkers, a Dutch fashion house, operate in very different industries and apply completely different strategies. Through the lens of...
Can microfinance institutions reduce poverty?
| Date: | 05 June 2018 |
| Author: | Niels Hermes |
The market for micro-finance is booming and cross-border funding for micro-finance institutions (MFIs) is increasing. It is important for microfinance institutions to show their effect in reducing poverty to maintain long-term interest of investors.
The value of dialogue on environmental, social and governance issues
| Date: | 17 May 2018 |
| Author: | Rieneke Slager |
There is growing attention to how companies engage with environmental, social and governance issues (ESG). At the same time, institutional investors, such as pension funds, increasingly engage in dialogue with companies on these issues, but it has not...
It takes $50 a month to convince people to give up Facebook
| Date: | 26 April 2018 |
How much do people value Facebook? By about $50 a month, according to a recent study of 2885 people by economists at the University of Groningen and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Users value Google searches at $17,530 a year, email at $8,414,...
Who pays for organic products?
| Date: | 23 April 2018 |
| Author: | Jenny van Doorn and Peter Verhoef |
Organic food production has become an increasingly salient issue. Retailers are increasingly focusing on organic products, and former US President Barack Obama funded a $50 million scheme to help farmers transition to organic methods. This reflects an...