EIB - Ersa Prize
EIB-ERSA Prize Winner 2011
EIB-ERSA Prize in Regional Science 2011 awarded to Piet Rietveld
The 2011 European Investment Bank (EIB)-European Prize in Regional Science will be awarded to Piet Rietveld, Professor in transport economics at the Faculty of Economics, VU University, Amsterdam, for his contributions to among others transportation modeling, risk and cost benefit analysis and the role of transport infrastructure and amenities in a spatial economy.
The European Investment Bank (EIB)-European Prize in Regional Science recognizes the outstanding contributions of scholars to the advancement in regional science and in related spatial area studies.
The EIB-European Prize in Regional Science is awarded on the recommendation of an independent jury of six eminent regional scientists, four from Europe, one from the Americas and one from the rest of the world.
The EIB-European Prizes in Regional Science were awarded since 2003. Prize winners were Roberto Camagni, Peter Nijkamp, Jean Paelinck, Ake Andersson, Martin Beckmann, Jacques Thisse, Tony Venables and Paul Cheshire.
The awarding ceremony will take place in August 2011 at the ERSA annual Congress in Barcelona (Spain).
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