prof. dr. Remco Zwinkels

Remco is Professor of International Finance and head of the Finance Department 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.

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

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Remco is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Workingpapers

• Carbon Beta: A Market-based Measure of Climate Risk (with Joop Huij, Dries Laurs, and Philip Stork).
• Risk, Return, and Sentiment in a Virtual Asset Market (with Maurizio Montone).
• The Cross Section of Stock Returns in an Artificial Stock Market (with Tjeerd van Cappelle en Dmytro Pokidin).
• Expectation Formation in Financial Markets: Heterogeneity and Sentiment (with Bart Frijns and Thanh Huynh).
• Contagious Attention: the Role of Investor Attention in Stock Market Behavior during the Pandemic (with Ralph Verhoeks and Willem Verschoor).
• Extrapolative investor beliefs and salience across stocks (with Eva Mynott).
• Breaking the Trilemma: Seigniorage, Endogenous Remittances, and Digital Currency (with Xuan Wang).

Data

• Data of the PMC (pollutive minus clean) portfolio used in the Carbon Beta paper.
• Company name fluency scores  used in the Company name fluency and stock returns paper.

Remco is currently involved in the following teaching activities:

• Sustainable Finance and Investments (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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