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Maarten Gijsenberg, Associate Professor of Marketing

Retail managers should really know this

Date:06 March 2017

I have a message for retail managers: the effectiveness of advertising and pricing decisions are not the same throughout the year.

Gaaitzen de Vries

Polarization of the labour market: mainly driven by technological change [video]

Date:03 March 2017

On Thursday March 2, Gaaitzen de Vries (assistant professor at the University of Groningen and fellow of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre) gave a lecture in the widely watched World Trade Organization's Trade Dialogues Lectures.

Steven Brakman, professor of International Economics, University of Groningen.

Trump on globalisation: correct diagnosis, wrong solution

Date:01 March 2017

The one issue that United States President Donald Trump has been exceptionally clear about is globalisation. He wants to protect the US economy from outside competition, because ‘jobs have disappeared to China’.

John Dong

ICT — The Next Catalyst of Innovation and Growth for European Firms

Date:22 February 2017

Using ICT to innovate is more than investing in computers and software. Systematic strategies must be developed to ensure that ICT investments lead to value creation. Research by John Dong has shown three strategies for firms to successfully innovate with...

James Lomas of the University of York's Centre for Health Economics visited the Faculty of Economics and Business in February

The health paradox

Date:17 February 2017

Health treatments can be found both "cost effective" and "unaffordable". James Lomas, who visited the University of Groningen this month to give a talk on the issue unpicks this apparent paradox in a guest blog for Healthwise.

Thom de Vries, assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business

Thom de Vries on managing coordination in multiteam systems

Date:07 February 2017

Thom de Vries, assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, recently published an article on  managing coordination in multiteam systems in Academy of Management Journal. We caught up with him to chat about the article 'Managing...

Political sentiment as measured in the 2017 Dutch General Elections programmes

The Sentiment of the 2017 Election Programmes

Date:06 February 2017

In the politics of recent years, emotion has played an important role, and this will be no different during the Dutch general elections in March. How do political parties deal with emotions? In a recent research project, Harry Garretsen and Janka Stoker...

Robert Lensink

When the evidence doesn’t add up

Date:26 January 2017

International development expert Professor Robert Lensink set out to examine a widely-held concept in aid. He found there was little evidence to support it.

Bart van Ark

Trump: revival or disaster for the US?

Date:25 January 2017

What will Donald Trump bring by 2021? Bart van Ark, economist of the New York-based The Conference Board and professor at the University of Groningen, analyses the road ahead.

Bart van Ark

Trump: revival or disaster for the US?

Date:24 January 2017

What will Donald Trump bring by 2021? Bart van Ark, economist of the New York-based The Conference Board and professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Groningen, analyses the road ahead.