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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
How best to regulate companies? Floor Rink investigates
| Date: | 22 January 2017 |
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 exposed problems at corporations that helped derail the global economy. Despite their failings, companies fiercely resisted the idea of tighter regulations.
What does this tell us, and is our current model of regulation...
Daron Acemoglu on a robotic future
| Date: | 18 January 2017 |
What will happen to jobs as more tasks are done by robots? Will mass unemployment ensue, or will humanity adjust as it has to new technologies in the past? The answer is uncertain, according to leading economist Daron Acemoglu. The MIT professor laid out...
Telling the story of the world economy through data for 25 years
| Date: | 09 January 2017 |
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...