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Welcome! I am a PhD Candidate in Finance at the University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. E.C. Perotti and Prof. Dr. F. Van der Ploeg. I will join Nova School of Business and Economics as (tenure-track) Assistant Professor in Finance in September, 2025. 


My research focuses on macro-finance, climate finance,  and household finance. I combine theory and empirics to explore whether climate risk is priced in financial markets, and how market incentives and financing frictions shape our response to climate change, through adaptation and mitigation. I also examine the resulting distributional effects, and the implications for political support for climate policies.


My job market paper has received the Best Student Paper Award at the CEPR Household Finance Conference and the Best Single-Authored Paper Award at the European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop. I also was a finalist in the Young Economist Competition of the European Central Bank, held at the Forum on Central Banking in Sintra in 2024. 


I am a visiting scholar at De Nederlandsche Bank and I visited the Finance Department of Imperial College London in the Spring of 2024. I hold an MPhil in Economics from Tinbergen Institute (cum laude), a Bachelor of Science in Economics (summa cum laude, valedictorian) and a Bachelor in Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam (dean's list).  You can find my full cv here.

Photo by Bastiaan Heus.

University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam Business School

Plantage Muidergracht 12

1018 TV Amsterdam

Email: y.vanderstraten@uva.nl

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