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. Read more about the story of Nijmegen School of Management.

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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.

Assistant professor of Business Economics Kim Fairley has been in the news regarding medication shortages

26 September 2024 News item

Kim Fairley, assistant professor of Business Economics, shares her economic analysis of current medication shortages in NRC and on NPO Radio 1.

New research should increase affordability of sport

19 September 2024 Research news item

In the SPRINTS project (Sports Pricing Research to INcrease Sport Participation), the HAN, Radboud University and the Mulier Institute are investigating how prices influence sports and physical activity participation.

EURAM grant for research project: Navigating Gender Biases and Network Brokerage in the Workplace.

15 August 2024 Research news item

Researchers Gabriela Contreras and Katarzyna Burzynska have been awarded an EURAM grant, providing valuable insights and practical solutions to address gender biases in the workplace.