Department of Economics and Business Economics

The department combines researchers and lecturers from various fields with the responsibility to maintain the research and teaching activities in economics and business economics in Nijmegen School of Management. We foster an active academic environment of both fundamental and applied research and teaching that combines the strengths of economics with a multidisciplinary orientation.

Education

Research

We foster an active academic environment of fundamental and applied research that combines the strengths of economics with a multidisciplinary orientation. By doing so, we develop a unique sensitivity to the historical, political, and cultural situatedness of economic principles. Our research programme is embedded in the Institute for Management Research.

Research in the picture

Some of the research of the Department of Economics and Business Economics is featured below. View the full news overview.

Vincent Delabastita receives Veni grant

17 July 2026 News item

NWO has awarded Vincent Delabastita a Veni grant for his research project: The emergence (and erosion) of collective bargaining institutions: Lessons from the origins of the Dutch ‘polder model’, 1850–1940.

Uitreiking Most Inspirational Paper Award

Gabriela Contreras wins Most Inspirational Paper Award for research on gender and corporate networking

25 June 2026 Research news item

Gabriela Contreras has received the “EURAM 2026 Most Inspirational Paper Award” in Corporate Governance, for her paper examining how informal networking rules shape gender inequality in corporate governance.

Climate impact research needs more real-world data

14 August 2026 Research news item

European cities are experimenting with hundreds of climate solutions, all in the hopes of adapting to the warmer world around us. But despite more and more research on these solutions, we still only barely have an idea of what actually works.