Martijn Schaaf

College Hageveld

Economics & Society including:- Informatics- Management & Organisation- German language

Universiteit van Amsterdam

BSc Thesis: How well does the interest rate set by acommon central bank match the optimal rate for individual countries as predicted by the Taylor rule?

University of Amsterdam

MSc Thesis: Media coverage and the Dutch housing market. My research explores the relationship between news media and the housing market of the Netherlands. News media measures, obtained by running over 2.000 articles of traditional newspapers through content analysis software, contain predictive content for house prices. Additionally, results indicate more pronounced effects for online news, represented by articles posted on NU.nl. Furthermore, it appears the role of sentiment is larger for… Show more MSc Thesis: Media coverage and the Dutch housing market. My research explores the relationship between news media and the housing market of the Netherlands. News media measures, obtained by running over 2.000 articles of traditional newspapers through content analysis software, contain predictive content for house prices. Additionally, results indicate more pronounced effects for online news, represented by articles posted on NU.nl. Furthermore, it appears the role of sentiment is larger for houses traded in lower price segments. This finding indicates especially lower-income households are prone to the influence of sentiment.Publication:Schaaf, M., Groenewegen, J., Francke, M. (2018). Huizenprijzen volgen sentiment in media. Economische Statistische Berichten, 103(4767), pp. 495-497. Show less

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

As an exchange student at the Antai College of Economics & Management of Shanghai Jiao Tong University I followed several courses of the curriculum such as: - Beginner Mandarin, - Introduction to e-commerce, - Bank Management, - Investment Science and - Financial Statement Analysis.

IT department and Accounting Support

Associated with Martijn Schaaf