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.

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.

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

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

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.

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EenVandaag: Natascha Wagner on Taxation of Asian Webshops

Professor Natascha Wagner contributes to EenVandaag on the taxation of Asian E-commerce.

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Publication in Experimental Economics: A study by Sara Arts, Qiyan Ong and Jianying Qiu on Measuring Decision Confidence

Sara Arts, Qiyan Ong and Jianying Qiu examined how to reliably measure decision security. The paper is published in Experimental Economics.

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Highlighted below are some of the projects of the Economics and Business Economics Department. Discover all current projects.

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Understanding, measuring, and applying sustainability preferences

This project provides insight into the drivers of ESG preferences, how they could be measured, and what this implies for applications in asset management and prices.

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Global Data Lab

The Global Data Lab (GDL) is an independent data and research center at Nijmegen School of Management of Radboud University. GDL has built one of the largest existing databases for LMICs.

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The controller profession

This project aims to inventory developments for controllers, based on surveys and interviews in cooperation with the Dutch VRC (Vereniging van Registercontrollers).