prof. dr. Remco Zwinkels

Remco is Professor of International Finance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before starting at the VU Amsterdam, he was assistant professor in international finance as well as the head of the finance group at the Erasmus School of Economics. He holds a MSc in monetary economics from the Erasmus University, an MPhil in Economics from the Tinbergen Institute, and a PhD in Economics from the Radboud University Nijmegen. Remco worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Technnology in Sydney and the Auckland University of Technology. His main research interest lies in the field of behavioral finance, and expectation formation in particular.  Remco is a certified teacher and has taught a large number of courses, ranging from international economics, monetary economics, to empirical finance. He won the SBE Senior Teaching award in 2020, and was in the final three of the presitigous Van der Duyn Schouten research award.

Research in Behavioral Finance Conference. I am co-organizing the Research in Behavioral Finance Conference, a bi-annual conference on behavioral finance.

Workingpapers

• Exploring Style Herding by Mutual funds (with Caterina Santi)
• Dynamic Portfolio Strategies in the European Corporate Bond Market (with Mary Pieterse-Bloem, Zhaowen Qian, and Willem Verschoor).
• Expectation Formation in Financial Markets: Heterogeneity and Sentiment (with Bart Frijns and Thanh Huynh).
• Inattentive Search for Currency Fundamentals (with Agnieszka Markiewicz, Ralph Verhoeks, and Willem Verschoor).
• Company Name Fluency and Stock Returns (with Martijn van den Assem and Maurizio Montone).
• Risk, Return, and Sentiment in a Virtual Asset Market (with Maurizio Montone).
• Managerial Sentiment and Employment (with Maurizio Montone and Yuhao Zhu).
• Wall Street Watches Washington: Asset Pricing Implications of Policy Uncertainty (with Ralph Verhoeks and Willem Verschoor).
• Gearing the gravity of gamma: Utilizing gamma positioning of dynamic hedgers to improve market quality (with Boyd Buis, Mary Pieterse-Bloem, and Willem Verschoor).

Remco is the academic director of the Master in Finance. 

Top Financial Programme in the Heart of Amsterdam's Financial District
The MSc Finance programme at VU Amsterdam ranked first among the finance programs in the Netherlands (Guide for Higher Education 2016, 2017, 2018, ánd 2019) and is competitive to any Finance major in the world. It has a reputation of training students in analytical and quantitative skills that are directly applicable in their business career.

Duisenberg Honours Programs

The MSc Finance programme has two exciting and challenging 84 ECTS honours tracks:

• Quantitative Risk Management  -  Finance, Econometrics, and Stochastic Procesess
• Finance and Technology  -  Finance, Data Science, and their Intersection

Remco is currently involved in the following courses:

• Asset Pricing (Master, VU)
• Master Thesis Finance (Master, VU)
• Behavioral Finance (PhD, Tinbergen Institute)

• Stichting Schuurman Schimmel Van Outeren | Haarlem | Bestuurder | 2018-01-01 - present

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