News Archive 2009

20 May 2009
Frank van der Duyn Schouten appointed in NWO Division for Social Sciences
Prof.dr. F.A. van der Duyn Schouten, Netspar director and former rector magnificus of Tilburg University, has been appointed member of the NWO Division for the Social Sciences (MaGW) as of May 1, 2009.
The division MaGW initiates, stimulates and funds high quality research within the field of social sciences.

15 May 2009
Lans Bovenberg appointed Academy member
Lans Bovenberg (1958) has been appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The Academy promotes the quality of scientific and scholarly work and strives to ensure that Dutch scholars and scientists make the best possible contribution to the cultural, social, and economic development of Dutch society.
Professor Lans Bovenberg won the Spinoza prize (the Dutch Nobel prize) in 2004 as the second social scientist since the Spinoza premia were instituted (in 1994). With this prize he founded Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement).
Lans Bovenberg is one of the most-cited Dutch economists in the international academic literature. At the same time, he has been the most cited Dutch economist in Dutch language journals aimed at practitioners and policymakers for more than ten years now. He has published extensively in the leading international journals on a wide variety of topics; public economics, tax policy, environmental economics, institutional economics, pensions and aging, international macroeconomics and labor economics.

13 May 2009
Eric van Damme in Committee on health care
Ab Klink, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, has appointed Eric van Damme as one of the five members of the Committee vertical integration health insurers and health providers. The committee has been established to investigate to what extent a legal ban on the vertical integration between health insurers and health providers is necessary for guaranteeing the public interests of quality, accessibility, and affordability of health care. The committee looks into the advantages and disadvantages of the different forms of cooperation between health insurers and health providers and will report its findings before 1 June 2009. More information (in Dutch).

13 May 2009
Luc Laeven appointed Professor
Luc Laeven has been appointed parttime Professor of International banking and corporate finance as from 1 April 2009. Laeven works at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC. For the next five years, he will work as a researcher at the European Banking Center for one month a year. Press release (in Dutch).

11 May 2009
Book Edin Mujagic: Will the euro survive the crisis?
The euro celebrates its first decennium. In a short time this currency has become a real word currency. The second decennium however, will become much more difficult. The current economic crisis might even light the explosives under the euro. How long is the fuse? In other words: will the euro survive the crisis? Those are the questions that Edin Mujagic, PhD student at FEB (supervised by Sylvester Eijffinger) and economic editor for the weekly magazine FEM Business, tries to answer in his book Tien jaar euro: biografie van een jonge wereldmunt (Ten years euro: biography of a young world currency). After describing the long history of the European currency and analysing in-depth what the euro has brought Europe, he looks into the future of the euro. In his book, Mujagic pleads for what the calls the Hanze-euro: a plan to preserve the benefits of a joint currency and to neutralise the structural shortcomings of the current euro. Edin's book has been published on 9 April 2009. The author studied monetary and maco-economics at FEB, where he is now working on his PhD research project. See also the website "alles over euro" (in Dutch).

6 May 2009
2nd Duisenberg Research Fellowship for FEB
For the second time this month an FEB researcher has been awarded the Duisenberg Research fellowship by the European Central Bank. Together with Sylvester Eijffinger, Steven Ongena (dept. Finance and EBC) recently got this fellowship, which was originally initiated by General Research (DG-R) and focuses on leading economists who are internationally recognised experts in their field of research.

4 May 2009
IMMIT students second place Estrat Challenge
The German Florian Schmid, the Chinese Nu Zhang, and the Taiwanese YiChin Lew, all three students who are studying in the International Master in Management of Information Technology (IMMIT), have won second place with their team in the L'Oréal Estrat Challenge 2009. Together with 15.000 teams worldwide they competed for four months in the L'Oréal Estrat Game, one of the biggest online business games in the world. Each team had to manage a cosmetics company with a portfolio of beauty brands. During 6 rounds they had to run their company successfully as General Manager, facing new market situations and challenges in each round. They had to translate strategy into critical decisions about all aspects of the company: pricing, production volume and capacity, research and development, marketing, advertising, brand positioning and diversity & equity. As the game progressed more teams got eliminated, until 7 were left for the finals in Paris on 22 April. Before the finals, each team had to provide a business plan explaining what they had done and how they forecasted the future developments for their virtual company. During the finals in Paris, the teams gave a presentation followed by questions and answers, presenting their company and strategies in front of a jury of executives of L'Oréal and the partner companies of the game. IMMIT is part of the Erasmus Mundus programme and initiated by the European Commission to provide top students worldwide with a possibility of completing a two-year Master's programme in Europe and take courses at three universities: Tilburg University, IAE Aix-en-Provence in France, and the Turku School of Economics in Finland. The Department Information Management of Tilburg University coordinates the programme.

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