News and events of Tilburg School of Economics and Management
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Shifting the starting point of the deductible in healthcare insurance reduces healthcare costs
01st July 2021Under the Dutch Healthcare Insurance Act (Zorgverzekeringswet), everyone faces a mandatory deductible: people have to pay the first € 385 (in 2020) of their healthcare costs out of their own pocket. The purpose of the deductible is to make insured individuals aware of the costs of healthcare by having them pay some of these costs themselves. However, this deductible has a number of drawbacks. Having studied these as part of her PhD research, Minke Remmerswaal shows that other forms of cost-sharing schemes, such as shifted deductibles and co-insurance rates, are more effective. On July 2, she will defend her PhD thesis at Tilburg University.
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Four Tilburg University Students participate in international Case Competition "Educating the world"
28th June 2021Stan den Teuling (International Business Administration), Jull Schuurmans (Business analytics & operations research), Sterre Rietbergen (International Business Administration) and Julie Habets (Internal Business Administration) form the TiSEM team participating in the 2021 IIBD INTERNATIONAL CASE COMPETITION.
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The role of data-science in the fight against hunger
21st June 2021Hein Fleuren, Professor of Econometrics and Operations Research and co-founder of the Zero Hunger Lab was on the Radio 1 program Spraakmakers speaking about the role that data-science can play in the fight against hunger.
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MSc Finance ranked 5th worldwide in terms of value for money
21st June 2021Tilburg University’s Master in Finance continues to rank among the top 50 best Finance programs in the world and in terms of value for money, the program ranks number 5 in the world. This is according to the annual Masters in Finance ranking by Financial Times. Tilburg University rose to a 48th position (up from position 50 in 2020), while the overall satisfaction about the program among alumni increased to 8.54 on a 0-10 scale.
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Jeff Campbell appointed as Professor of Macroeconometrics
11th June 2021Tilburg University has appointed Dr. Campbell as Professor of Macroeconometrics at the Department Econometrics and Operations Research in the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), effective June 1, 2021. His research covers Econometrics, Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics.
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Marco Da Rin receives prestigious Comenius grant for 'Entrepreneurial Literacy Initiative'
07th June 2021NWO/NRO has awarded dr. Marco Da Rin, associate professor of Finance at Tilburg School of Economics and Management, a Comenius Senior Fellowship. This was recently announced by NWO. He receives the Fellowship for his 'Entrepreneurial Literacy Initiative', a technology-enabled platform to provide students with knowledge and tools to understand what an entrepreneurial career is, whether it suits their talents and ambitions, and how to build it up.
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In memoriam Piet Verheyen
07th June 2021Emeritus Professor of Business Economics Piet Verheyen, connected to Tilburg's Faculty of Economics from 1962 to 1996, passed away Wednesday, June 2, at the age of 89.
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Why employers would be wise to let their employees work from home during the corona pandemic?
07th June 2021The daily newspaper contain full-page ads from the Dutch government: ‘Work from home. We are getting better and better at it’. This appeal to companies to allow their employees to work from home is necessary since there are still many businesses that force their workers to come to the office, even though they can do their work equally well from home. Given public health concerns this ban is obviously an ill-advised decision. But the employers concerned clearly put their business interests first. But is that wise?
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Zero Hunger Lab awarded EUR 500,000 for food waste research
02nd June 2021Under the Farm to Fork Strategy of the EU’s Horizon 2020 instrument, the European Commission has awarded EUR 12 million to the research program ZeroW: Systemic Innovations Towards a Zero Food Waste Supply Chain. A consortium of 43 parties, one of which is Tilburg University, is poised to study how food waste in the food chain can be drastically reduced.
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TiSEM and Asset conclude recruitment agreement with Unilever
11th May 2021On May 11, Unilever signed a recruitment agreement with TiSEM and Asset. The agreement will take effect - retroactively - on September 1, 2020. This partnerships marks the beginning of long-term and efficient collaboration between Unilever and all parties within TiSEM and Asset engaged in preparation for the job market.
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Tilburg University student speaks at closing session of major UN conference
11th May 2021Olaf Steenbergen, Information Management student at Tilburg University, addressed the humanitarian community during the closing (online) session of the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks 2021.
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Economist Florian Sniekers on the state of the economy after the corona crisis
30th April 2021In the second episode of 'De Tafel van Martinus', economist Florian Sniekers shares his views on the state of the economy after the corona crisis (in Dutch)
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Samuel Stäbler one of the finalists AMA-MSI-Root Award
29th April 2021Samuel Stäbler has been a runner-up for the prestigious AMA-MSI-Root Award for his 2020 Journal of Marketing publication (co-authored by Marc Fischer from the University of Cologne) entitled: “When Does Corporate Social Irresponsibility Become News? Evidence from More Than 1,000 Brand Transgressions Across Five Countries”.
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Paper Rik Pieters accepted for publication in Psychological Science
29th April 2021The paper by Rik Pieters on “Gender Gaps in Deceptive Self-Presentation on Social Media Platforms Vary with Gender Equality: A Multinational Investigation,” co-authored by Dasha Kolesnyk (University of Twente) and Martijn de Jong (Erasmus University), has been accepted for publication in Psychological Science.
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Tilburg Science Hub – Conduct your research differently
23rd April 2021Hannes Datta, Tobias Klein and Andrea Antonacci (TiSEM) have developed Tilburg Science Hub, an online resource that helps individual students, researchers, data scientists, and teams to carry out data- and computation-intensive projects efficiently.
