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In her dissertation ‘The rich domain of decision making explored: The non-triviality of the choosing process’ ERIM’s Tong V. Wang explores the rich domain of decision making.

In his dissertation ‘Measuring the Impact of Public Policy on Socioeconomic Disparities in Health’ ERIM’s Bastian Ravesteijn evaluates the degree to which different government policies have been or can be successful in reducing health disparities due to exogenous (“unfair'') factors.

The 2016 EFMD Doctoral Programmes Conference: Innovation and Impact in Doctoral Education was hosted by Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (ERIM) 11-13 May.

Members of the Institute for Behaviour and Biology (EURIBEB) and Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) have recently co-authored two articles, Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses in Nature Genetics and Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment in Nature.

In his dissertation ‘Essays on Momentum Strategies in Finance’ ERIM’s Arco van Oord discusses several aspects and possible improvements of equity momentum strategies in finance.

Martijn de Jong, Professor of Marketing Research at Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Erasmus University Rotterdam is one of three recipients of the annual JMR Paul E. Green Award as co-author of the article A Bounded Rationality Model of Information Search and Choice in Preference Measurement, which first appeared in the April 2015 issue (Vol. 52, No. 2) of Journal of Marketing Research.

World-shaking accounting scandals often originate in financial reporting from internal accountants. By studying internal accountants’ brain activity, Professor Frank Hartmann Professor in the Department of Accounting & Control, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) discovered that some misreporting comes from a neurological make-up that makes them more vulnerable to social pressure from managers promoting their own personal interests.

Dr. Daniel Fernandes won the 2015 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for his PhD research The Functions and Dysfunctions of Memory Cues with which he graduated from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) in 2013 with the guidance of supervisor Dr. Stefano Putoni.

Professor Giessner argues that an organizational behaviour perspective focusing on the management of identity levels during an organisational merger provides important practical insights for employee management.

In her dissertation ‘Prevention of the portion size effect’, ERIM’s Ires Versluis aims is to better understand why the portion size effect occurs and what can be done to prevent it.