News Economics and Management

• Lans Bovenberg awarded Netherlands Prize for Political Economy

  12th April 2024

  Emeritus Professor of Economics Lans Bovenberg has been awarded the Netherlands Prize for Political Economy. Bovenberg is receiving the prize in recognition of his major and wide-ranging contribution to economic policy knowledge and his many publications in the Dutch and international professional literature.

  

• How to prevent social desirability bias in surveys

  26th March 2024

  Marketing researcher Rik Pieters has developed, together with colleagues from other universities, a new, indirect questioning technique to improve the chance that people answer truthfully. The technique can be used, for instance, in conducting surveys or prescribing medication.

  

• Excessive flexibility due to flexible contracts can negatively affect workers well-being

  19th March 2024

  On Friday, March 22, 2024, José Gabriel Carreño will defend his PhD thesis titled: Three Essays on Wage Compensation and Flexible Contracts. In his PhD thesis, Carreño found that the reliance on flexible contracts may lead to a decrease in worker welfare.