News overview

New research shows that a modest shift in how investors allocate their government bond portfolios could meaningfully support global sustainable development. 

Football clubs routinely conflate short-term match outcomes, often heavily influenced by chance, with managerial competence, leading to inefficient decisions.

What began as a last-minute registration with the Skadi rowing club, mainly for fun, ended with Linn winning gold at the 2025 World Championships in Shanghai.

While advertisers occasionally challenge how women are represented in advertisements, men remain confined to traditional stereotypes.  

Dutch economics schools are coming under financial pressure, warns Ivo Arnold in a contribution to the Dutch economics journal ESB.

Research shows that a customer-to-customer return system could increase profits by up to 34%.

Dr Wilco van den Heuvel has been appointed as Professor of Operations Analytics within the Econometric Institute, which takes effect 1 December 2025.

Dr Remy Spliet has been appointed Professor of Operations Research & Transport at Erasmus School of Economics with effect from 1 December 2025.

Nvidia, ETFs and Bitcoin are discussed in BNR Nieuwsradio's investor panel on 18 November, with Mary Pieterse-Bloem.

Carlos Riumalló-Herl, Pilar Garcia-Gomez and Owen O'Donnell from Erasmus School of Economics have been awarded the Raymond Vernon Memorial Award.