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In his dissertation ‘Studies on Determinants and Consequences of Financial Reporting Quality’, ERIM’s Anastasios Elemes investigates determinants and consequences of financial reporting quality.

Professor Han Bleichrodt and Professor Peter Wakker of Erasmus School of Economics have written an article with Arthur Attema (iBMG) and two ESE PhD candidates, Yu Gao and Zhenxing Huang. They introduce a completely new approach of measuring the discounting of money over time. The publication is forthcoming in the prestigious international scientific journal the American Economic Review.

In his dissertation ‘Empirical studies on sovereign fixed income markets’, ERIM’s Johan Duyvesteyn presents evidence of five studies showing that sovereign fixed income markets are not always price efficient..

In his dissertation ‘Sentiment Analysis of Text Guided by Semantics and Structure, ERIM’s Alexander Hogenboom argues that the polarity of text can be analyzed more accurately when additionally accounting for semantics and structure.

Global supply chains are built on organizational, information, and logistics networks. Ports are connected via these networks and also need to connect these networks.

This year’s Hal W. Hendrick Distinguished International Colleague Award went to Jan Dul, Professor of Technology and Human Factors at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) hands out the annual award to honour non-US citizens for their outstanding academic contributions to the human factors and ergonomics field.

In her dissertation ‘Connecting Minds: On the Role of Metaknowledge in Knowledge Coordination’, ERIM’s Julija Mell aims to further our understanding of how groups and larger collectives process information and integrate their knowledge and what factors influence the social interactions at the core of this process

Research institute INSCOPE – Research for Innovation has announced the nominees for the Erasmus Innovation Award 2015. The winner of this year’s award will be announced on 19 November 2015 during the Innovation Festival 2015 at the Rotterdam Science Tower.

Professor de Koster was presented with a commemorative Jubileumboek (anniversary book) documenting achievements and celebrating this milestone during a segment of the event Logistica 2015 in Jaarsbeurs Utrecht, 10 November 2015. The book, Past and Future: Perspectives on Material Handling marks the occasion of René de Koster’s 20 years full professorship at RSM.

As global supply chains have become more complex, seaports need not only be global hubs in logistics networks, but they must also act as central nodes in organisational and information networks