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.

Do employers collaborate to suppress wages? Historical research into Belgian coal cartels provides insight

24 July 2025 Research news item

Do employers collaborate on labour markets to lower wages? A study by Vincent Delabastita and Michael Rubens sheds light on this question by illustrating how secret agreements between employers in the past suppressed workers' wages and employment.

Monument voor sovjetarbeiders en Kolchozvrouwen in Moskou

Economics research stumbled under Soviet regime, while mathematics thrived

06 January 2025 Research news item

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a new paper, the historian of economics at Radboud University explores the complex history of Soviet science.

NWO Research Grant for research on Charity managers and the efficient provision of public goods

18 November 2024 News item

We congratulate our researcher Jan Schmitz for receiving an NWO (Dutch Research Council) XS grant of €50,000 for research on "Charity managers and the efficient provision of public goods”.