Two TILEC researchers honored with prestigious grants

Two active TILEC researchers were recently awarded prestigious competitive grants. Jan Boone won a Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) Vici grant of € 1,250,000 for his research project on the health care system. Vici grants are given to senior researchers who have shown that they have the ability successfully to develop their own innovative lines of research and to build a research group. Jan's research aims at identifying the costs and benefits of intensifying competition in health care markets. Although more intense competition forces providers and insurers to yield higher quality at a lower price, the question is whether one can have too much competition. Bert Willems was granted a two-year Marie Curie fellowship by the European Commission for his research project about investments in electricity markets. Such grants are meant to improve the career perspectives of young researchers by broadening their scientific and generic skills. Bert will study how generator firms make their investment decisions in a competitive electricity market and whether governments should regulate the security of supply. TILEC is very proud of those achievements and extends its warmest congratulations to the winners!