Interview: Yingjie Yuan on how firms can manage 'star' employees
| Date: | 07 February 2018 |
| Author: | Yingjie Yuan |
After spending time in the Netherlands for her PhD, Yingjie Yuan spent several months at Penn State University, only to come back to the Netherlands. She accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Management and Organization Psychology and started her...
Interview: Robert Feenstra on tracking global economic milestones through data
| Date: | 02 February 2018 |
Robert Feenstra is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, and holder of the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics. He gave a keynote address on ‘The ‘China Shock’ in Trade Reconsidered’...
Interview: the OECD’s Dirk Pilat on the importance of data
| Date: | 29 January 2018 |
Dirk Pilat is Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation at the OECD. Prior to his work at the OECD, he earned his PhD in economics in 1994 at the University of Groningen. He spoke at the GGDC Conference 2017 on the OECD’s...
Interview: Ingvild Almås on what microdata can teach us about economic inequality
| Date: | 22 January 2018 |
Ingvild Almås is a professor at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and currently a visiting associate professor at IIES, Stockholm University. Almås’ research focuses on economic inequalities. She delivered a paper on...
25 years of telling the story of the world economy through data
| Date: | 15 January 2018 |
The Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) was founded in 1992 within the Economics Department of the University of Groningen. It recently marked 25 years since its founding, with a jubilee conference on the themes that have long been key to the...
What the Berlin Wall can teach us about mergers
| Date: | 15 December 2017 |
| Author: | Susanne Täuber |
History suggests that when two groups merge, it doesn’t end well. Academic research has suggested the same. But my experience and research at the Faculty of Economics and Business has allowed me to identify factors that accommodate successful mergers.
Brexit minister David Davis’ sectoral impact assessments - Groningen style
| Date: | 12 December 2017 |
The minister might not have done his homework, but our economists have: and they estimate that 2.5 million jobs and 8.5 percent of the UK’s GDP is at risk from Brexit.
Female directors, board committees and firm performance
| Date: | 29 November 2017 |
| Author: | Colin P. Green and Swarnodeep Homroy |
What effect, if any, does female representation have on board performance? Previous research says none. Our research says otherwise.
Why is the Gender Gap in Education Closing?
| Date: | 23 November 2017 |
Historically women have had lower levels of education than men all around the world. But since the mid-20th century the educational attainment of women has grown at a quicker pace than that of men in most countries, leading to a gradual closing of the...