Affiliated Institutes ABS
Amsterdam Centre for Corporate Finance (ACCF)
The Amsterdam Centre for Corporate Finance (ACCF) is a think tank specialising in the financial management of corporations and the operations of the financial sector. The ACCF promotes high quality research at the interface between financial theory and corporate policy. The ACCF is supported by major financial and industrial corporations and affiliated with the Business School.
Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE)
The ambition of the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) is to influence the entrepreneurship climate in the Netherlands. ACE uses three instruments to achieve this: (1) shaping the research agenda and communicating its output to entrepreneurs and policy makers; (2) providing a forum for dialogue and networking between internationally high standing academics and (governmental) policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, corporate managers and investors, who are influential in the Netherlands; (3) providing and coordinating entrepreneurship courses at an academic level. In particular, ACE offers a minor programme in entrepreneurship.
In these ways, ACE bridges the gap between practice and academic research and education. ACE is an initiative of the Universiteit van Amsterdam Faculty of Economics and Business.
Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE)
The Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) is a joint initiative of the economics and law faculties of the University of Amsterdam. The objective of the ACLE is to promote high-quality research in the fields at the interface of law and economics. The ACLE presently associates around twenty scholars in law and economics, ranging from full professors to PhD students. The Center's main focus areas are: Competition and Regulation, Corporate Governance and Law and Foundations of Law and Economics.
Amsterdam Centre for Research In International Finance (CIFRA)
CIFRA is established in 1998 functions within the international network of top research centres in finance. CIFRA promotes the exchange and development of new ideas and methodologies in financial economics. Currently CIFRA’s main themes are International Financial Integration and Corporate Finance and Banking. CIFRA performs an active role in the organisation of international workshops, supports PhD students’ research, maintains an active visitor programme and promotes an open flow of communication between policymakers, financial sector practitioners and academics.
Amsterdam Centre for Service Innovation (AMSI)
ACIS (Amsterdam Centre for Insurance Studies)
The Amsterdam Centre for Insurance Studies (ACIS) is an initiative of the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and the Faculty of Law.
The ACIS is a community of about 40 researchers from the Netherlands and abroad, comprised of outstanding professors, promising researchers and talented doctoral candidates. Many of them also teach in the University's Amsterdam Business School Insurance Studies Master's programme.
Amsterdam Institute for Arbeids Studies (AIAS)
The Amsterdam Institute for Arbeids Studies, AIAS, is an international interdisciplinary University institute where academics in the areas of labour economics, labour relations, labour law, labour and health, psychology and organisational sociology can combine their expertise. AIAS is active in both education and research. The Business School and AIAS are co-operating in the development and implementation of a MSc in Human Resource Management.
IBIS UvA (Institute for Business and Industrial Statistics)
The Institute for Business and Industrial Statistics of the University of Amsterdam supports quality and efficiency improvement initiatives based on its expertise in the field of statistical methodology. IBIS UvA has over 15 years of experience with (Lean) Six Sigma. The institute is owned by the University of Amsterdam, and is seen internationally as a center of expertise in Lean Six Sigma and industrial statistics.
Tinbergen Institute
The Tinbergen Institute is a collaborative institute of economic research between the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The institute includes the Tinbergen Research Institute and the Tinbergen Graduate School. More than 100 research fellows and approx. 170 M.Phil and PhD students participate in the institute’s research programme and educational programme. International researchers visit the Tinbergen Institute to give seminars and workshops, or to meet the research fellows of the institute.