Spatial Economics
About the Department of Spatial Economics
The Department of Spatial Economics is engaged in many economic problems in which space plays a prominent role. The department of Spatial Economics offers insights and applications from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
The 60 staff members are involved in both fundamental research as well as in national and international commissioned research. With this research, the department has gained national and international recognition, as shown by the large number of international publications and awards, the appearance of different staff members as experts in the media and the presence of various section members on the typically Dutch phenomenon of 'Economists Parade'.
| The Faculty of Economics at VU University is a world player in the domains of the Master in Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics. REPEC indicates that the faculty belongs to the top 10 in the world in the domains or urban and real estate economics (6), environmental economics (9), resource economics (3) and energy economics (7) (transport economics is currently not a separate field in the REPEC list). |
