Grants and awards recently awarded to ACLE research members

• The MLF best thesis of the year that is awarded by the ACLE every year to one of LLM Law & Finance has been awarded to Xinyue Chen (MLF cohort 2023-2024 and ACLE PhD candidate as of September 2024) for her master thesis on: Sustainability Linked Bond as a Sustainability Commitment Tool. 
• Kati J. Cseres and Catherine Wong were awarded the ENLENS - Energy Transition Through the Lens of SDGs research grant. The research topic is: Greenwashing in green finance: perspectives from regulators and regulates. (Awarded 39.760€ in 2024)
• In May 2024 Edoardo D. Martino together with Enrico C. Perotti were awarded the ARILS (Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies) Research Strategic investments Research Fund (29.440€) for their project on: Bank resilience to shocks
• Edoardo D. Martino, Yasmine van der Straten and Enrico C. Perotti were awarded the ENLENS - Energy Transition Through the Lens of SDGs research grant. The research topic is: The green finance arbitrage of poor environmental performers: legal and financial perspectives (Awarded 30.000€  in 2024)
• In June 2024 Edoardo D. Martino together with Remo Oostdam were awarded the ASF (A sustainable future) research fund for their project on Historic dividend payout by Dutch Banks.  
• In October 2024 Edoardo D. Martino was awarded the ARILS (Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies) Methods and Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Research Fund (75.000€) for his project on: The Law of Financial Resilience. 
• Sander Onderstal, head of studies for Economics & Business at PPLE, was awarded a research grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant of more than 800.000€ is part of the NWO’s ‘Open Competition L’ funding instrument for curiosity-driven research. The research will be conducted together with fellow FEB professor Jan-Willem Stoelhorst. Their research title is Behavioral mechanism design and focuses on the best way to shape economic institutions like markets, legal frameworks, and incentive schemes. The project will be completed in 5 years. (Awarded in 2024)
• Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci was awarded the Faculty Research Strategic Investment Fund 2023 (€18.400) by the the Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies (ARLIS). Project title: "The power of resisted tempations".
• Hossein Nabilou (with Spyros Terovotis & Alessio Pacces) was awarded the Methods and Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Research Fund 2023 (€75.000) by the Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies (ARLIS). Project title: “Leveraging financial technologies and legal reforms to achieve ESG goals by improving the exercise of voting rights within the intermediated securities systems”. 
• Yasmine van der Straten, ACLE PhD associate, received the best PhD presenter award at the 2023 CEPR European Conference on Household Finance for her paper “Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Climate Change and Adaptation on Housing, Income & Wealth”  
• Edoardo Martino (with Alessio Pacces & Enrico Perotti) was awarded the Methods and Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Research grant 2022? (€75.000) by the Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies (ARLIS). Project title: “Banking regulation for a safe and sustainable economy”.
• ACLE PhD candidate Fatjon Kaja received 2 EULysesses Partnership grants for short visits at Humboldt University Berlin and Università di Roma – La Sapienza.
• Enrico Perotti was awarded the NWO Open Competition Grant (€ 750.000 over five years) for a project on Redistributive Credit Allocation.
• Davide Grossi was awarded the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group Fellowship (€12.500) for the academic year 2022–2023 at NIAS-KNAW. NIAS Fellowships are awarded to outstanding scholars in the humanities and the social sciences, artists, writers and journalists, to carry out advanced research during a period of 5 or 10 months. Read more about these fellowships here.
• In 2022, Maryam Malakotipour was awarded a shared prize – with Roberto Tallarita – for the best paper of the year at Bocconi-Oxford Junior Scholars Network Workshops in Corporate Law for the paper entitled “Trade-off between Secured Creditor Protection and Unsecured Bondholder Protection: "Microeconomics and Financial Stability Analyses”.
• In 2022, Maryam Malakotipour was awarded the Silver Medal from the International Insolvency Institute for her paper on “Reorganization: a system of all for one?”
• Davide Grossi, Alessio Pacces, Xinyi Wang, and Andrea Titton were awarded a grant (of €10.500) by A Sustainable Future for a project titled “An NLP analysis of institutional investor’s stance towards environmental sustainability” (2022-2023). 
• Edoardo Martino and Oscar Soons were awarded a grant (of €10.800) by A Sustainable Future for a project titled “Banks’ dividend payout and financial resilience. Long-term trends and efficient regulation” (2022-2023). 
• Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci, Davide Grossi, and Spyros Terovitis were awarded a UvA Fair & Resilient Society Seed Grant 2022 (of €14.218) for their research project "De-polarization through Deliberation".  
• Alessio Pacces was awarded a grant by the Amsterdam University Fund (€60.000) to fund part of a research project on “The Societal Role of Corporations” (2021-2024).
• Alessio Pacces was awarded a grant by the Edwin Bouwfonds (€47.500) to fund part of a research project on “Historic Analysis on the Role of Corporations in Society” (2021-2024).
• Davide Grossi, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Alessio Pacces were awarded a grant (of €27.000) by UvA RPA Human(e) AI seed funding. This grant is funding a research project on “Collective Decisions in Law and Economics: A Computational Perspective” (2020-2021).

Grants previously awarded to ACLE

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