Professors
Business Economics
Prof. Enrico Perotti
Enrico Perotti, an Italian national, holds the Chair in International Finance at UvA. After earning his PhD in Finance from MIT in 1990, he taught at Boston University and the London School of Economics. He has acted as a consultant for the IMF, the World Bank, the EC and the New York Stock Exchange, amongst others. In the last two years he has been a guest at the IMF research department, the London Business School and the London School of Economics, and has given seminars at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, Berkeley and NYU.
His research interests are corporate finance and governance, international finance, political economy and innovation. He publishes regularly in top academic journals such as AER, JPE, JFE, JIE, JIMF. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Director of the Amsterdam Center for Research in International Finance (CIFRA), Fellow at the Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) research group in Entrepreneurship.
Prof. Peter Englund
Peter Englund has served as Professor of Banking and Insurance at the Stockholm School of Economics since 1998. From 2000 until 2003 he was director of the Stockholm Institute of Financial Research.
Peter Englund's research has dealt with various topics within the field of real estate finance and economics, including the impact of taxation on housing choices. His current interests focus on price formation, particularly in respect of constructing price indices, which is a challenging topic in view of the fact that properties are heterogeneous and rarely traded. Accurate indices are crucial for estimating the risk and returns on property investment and for analysing how homeowners can hedge such risks. More recently he has also begun looking at office markets in order to understand the adjustment of office rents and vacancies. One of his objectives at the UvA is to contribute to building a research group in real estate finance. An important research area will be the market for owner-occupied homes, for which there is very good data available in the Netherlands.
Prof. Mirjam van Praag
Mirjam van Praag is Professor of Economics of Organisation and Personnel. She is also the Director of the Amsterdam Center of Entrepreneurship (ACE). Mirjam has worked as a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, as a PhD researcher in the UvA Economics Department (1992), as a new business consultant with Intomart GfK and as a financial analyst with Procter & Gamble.
Mirjam‘s research interests are the economics of performance measurement and reward systems and entrepreneurship. She is Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute, Co-Director of the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance and Associate Editor of Small Business Economics. She has published in Ecomica, Small Business Economics and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, amongst others.
Dr Randolph Sloof
Randolph Sloof is Associate Professor in Organisation Economics and Programme Director of the Business Economics track. After receiving his undergraduate degree in Econometrics, he completed a PhD in Public Economics at the University of Amsterdam. In addition to his academic positions, Randolph also spent one and a half years working at the General Court of Audit in The Hague.
His research interests subsequently shifted towards personnel economics, experimental economics and behavioral contract theory. He has recently published in journals including EER, Economic Journal and Rand, amongst others.
Dr Erasmo Giambona
Erasmo Giambona was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the UvA's Amsterdam Business School. He obtained his PhD in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Connecticut in 2003, with a dissertation on ‘Performance Measurement under Differential Information Applied to the Case of Real Estate Investment Trusts'. Prior to joining the UvA, he collaborated with the University of Connecticut's Center for Real Estate Finance and taught at Roger Williams University. His teaching experience includes courses in the fields of real estate finance, real estate investment, corporate finance and international finance.
Erasmo's research interests are in the areas of corporate real estate finance, long-run performance measurement for REITs, capital structure, stock repurchases and mergers. He has published in the major real estate journals and is actively involved with academic organisations in the field of real estate in both the USA and Europe.
Dr Johan B.S. Conijn
Johan B.S. Conijn holds a special appointment as Professor of the Housing Market. This is a new chair within the Faculty of Economics and Business, endowed by the Foundation of the Amsterdam School of Real Estate and facilitated by the Dutch Society of Real Estate Brokers (NVM). Conijn obtained his PhD in 1995 with a dissertation entitled ‘Some Financial-Economic Aspects of Public Housing‘. His career began at the Economic Institute for the Building Industry, with subsequent appointments as director of the OTB research institute at TU Delft, associate at RIGO Research & Advies and, since 2005, as Director of the Dutch Central Fund for Public Housing.
In his position at the UvA, Conijn focuses on economic aspects of the housing market. Over the past 25 years he has conducted research at various institutes, and has worked for, amongst others, the Parliamentary Investigative Committee on Building Grants. Recently the Dutch Lower House commissioned him to draw up a report on the future of housing corporations.