Research

This interdisciplinary research cluster studies ethical, legal, and governance questions related to business and corporate sustainability. Our work covers areas such as sustainable finance, business and human rights, corporate responsibility, and the regulation of global markets and value chains. The group aims to contribute to academic debate as well as to policy and practice in the transition toward more sustainable and responsible forms of business activity.
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The research group Development Economics focuses on economic decision making, microeconomic aspects of development and economic policy in low- and middle-income countries. Its research areas encompass financial inclusion and financial product design; women’s empowerment and female labor force participation; the role of psychological and behavioral dimensions in economic development; agricultural economics and food security; and broader issues of inequality, poverty, and deprivation. The group is united by its methodological approach. Its members predominantly rely on applied micro-econometric and experimental economics methods using both primary and secondary data to evaluate development economic policies.
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Our group studies long-run development. We explore how economic growth, technological change, geography, resources, and institutions shape societies over time, and investigate why some countries become rich while others remain poor, and how crises, conflict, and globalization affect long-term development.
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The Groningen Finance Group studies how financial markets, institutions and corporate decision making interact with the broader economy. Our expertise ranges from asset pricing and portfolio management and corporate finance and governance to empirical banking, financial intermediation, macro finance and political economy. A distinctive feature of the group’s research is the focus on sustainability and ESG—including responsible investing and green and energy-transition finance—alongside behavioural and experimental approaches to financial decision-making.
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The members of this research unit are interested in different aspects of health economics and policy, including the demand and supply of healthcare, health insurance, socioeconomic determinants of health, health technology assessment, and the health effects of economic policies.
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This research unit studies how economic agents behave. It does so using experiments, both in the lab as well as the field. It also studies how such behavior affects the functioning of markets, using tools from applied game theory.
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Our unit specializes in the study of key economic and social challenges facing households, and how these interact with labor markets and public policies. Our study themes involve (but are not limited to): household saving and consumption behavior; labor supply decisions; intergenerational relations within families; health risk; aging; education; gender; inequalities; housing. The members of our units use microeconometric techniques or structural modeling combined with rich micro level data from either survey or administrative records to study these aspects and inform the related societal and policy debates.
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The members of the Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Political Economy research unit investigate macroeconomic topics using both empirical and theoretical methodologies, with a focus on either monetary policy or political economy issues.
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This unit specializes in the economics of the public sector, with a primary emphasis on the financing and functioning of local governments. Our members bridge the gap between academic research and practical policy, offering data-driven insights into taxation, public spending, and institutional design.
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