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In his dissertation ‘The use of cognitive factors in explaining entrepreneurship: some empirical results’, ERIM’s Willem Rietdijk studies novel factors that may explain entrepreneurship better.

The article The Taming of Desire: Unspecific Postponement Reduces Desire for and Consumption of Postponed Pleasures that was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. “It’s human to give in to temptation. New Year’s resolutions and willpower frequently crumble when up against favourite snacks and drinks… They suggest a novel solution: it’s better to tell yourself you can have it ‘some other time’ instead of ‘no, not at all’.

In his dissertation ‘Biases in Project Escalation: Names, Frames & Construal Levels’, ERIM’s Nick Benschop studies several biases which thus far have remained (mostly) unexplored as causal factors of project escalation.

In his dissertation ‘The Rhetoric of Investment Theory. The Story of Statistics and Predictability’, ERIM’s Thomas Pistorius gives attention to a lot of ideas to change finance: the alternative statistical theory of Mandelbrot, bubble theory, political finance, the analysis of rhetoric, the analysis of culture, innovative practices, ethics in the form of virtue and value ethics, and the history of finance.

In her dissertation ‘Mind the Gap between Demand and Supply: A behavioral perspective on demand forecasting’, ERIM’s Stefanie Protzner aims to provide new insights into the role of human judgment in demand forecasting.

Within organizations, work and the way work is organized is rapidly changing. Driven by increasing globalization, the virtualization brought on by the internet and the need for constant innovation is increasing the pace of work and our interconnectedness.

In his dissertation ‘Market Efficiency and Liquidity’ ERIM’s Dominik Rösch investigates the interaction between market efficiency and liquidity. In particular to document time- and cross-sectional variation in market efficiency, and whether individual stock efficiency co-moves with aggregate market efficiency; to investigate why inefficiencies arise and how trading against these inefficiencies affects market liquidity

In his dissertation ‘Propagation in Networks: The impact of information processing at the actor level on system-wide propagation dynamics’ ERIM’s Wouter Vermeer addresses the analysis of system-wide dynamics of propagation in networks.

Erasmus University Rotterdam is providing a major financial boost for three leading research groups at Erasmus School of Economics. With the Research Excellence Initiative (REI), the university is aiming to attract and retain talent.

Within organizations, work and the way work is organized is rapidly changing. Driven by increasing globalization, the virtualization brought on by the internet and the need for constant innovation is increasing the pace of work and our interconnectedness