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A blog post on diversification of regions in times of crises has just been published by the London School of Economics (LSE United States Centre). It is based on the article “Technological [...]

How to handle the lack of affordable housing in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area? Simply building more is not the only solution, according to Henri de Groot in the Dutch AT5 tv programme Bouw Woon [...]

Recently a NBER paper on ‘Robots and workers: Evidence from the Netherlands‘ was published by Daron Acemoglu, Hans Koster and Ceren Ozgen. What exactly is this research about and why [...]

For his research proposal  ‘Restricting raw material exports — bad for the world, good at home?’  Spatial Economics’ Steven Poelhekke (projectleader) together with Maarten Bosker (Erasmus [...]

After the publication of the Keuzegids 2023 on 9 March it turned out that students are very satisfied with the master  Spatial, Transport & Environmental Economics (STREEM). In particular, [...]

On Friday the 10th of February 2023, the first edition of the Dutch Environmental And Resource Economist (DEARE) Day took place. After a successful small-scale workshop in Tilburg in March 2022, [...]

Yuzhi Yang joined our department in September 2021 to work on a research project about river pollution management, under supervision of Steven Poelhekke and Erik Ansink. Her background is quite [...]

The master Spatial, Transport, and Environmental Economics (usually abbreviated as STREEM) obtained the bronze medal in de EW Beste Studies 2022. This means in fact that STREEM is one of the best [...]

In 2019, Diego Candia Riquelme joined our department as PhD student, supervised by Erik Verhoef. Diego studied industrial engineering and completed a master in transportation engineering at the [...]

Joëlle Noailly, Gerard van der Meijden and Steven Poelhekke have been awarded a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for the project “Critical Minerals and the Clean [...]