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ousing market researcher Linde Kattenberg of Maastricht University does not expect first-time buyers to be able to go bargain hunting yet.

A pair of pants that tear after a year, a laptop that only lasts three years. We keep buying and throwing away and buying. We know it's destroying our planet, but we let it happen. Professor of sustainable business Nancy Bocken investigates how we can break that pattern.

Many fair trade labels exist, but do they really work well? Labelling fair products is an easy way to inform consumers without overloading them with information. But it also seems that the success of this strategy is limited. Which raises the main question: what stops consumers from buying fair...

Will Maastricht be your new hometown? Then finding housing will be your next challenge! If you've registered or decided on your programme of choice, housing and other practical matters become priorities. What is the Dutch housing market like, what kinds of accommodation are available and which...

Let's say you want to make some money: will you go to the casino or buy stocks?

Het ministerie van onderwijs, cultuur en wetenschap heeft het project  ‘Leading to Success: SMART Choices and SMART Tools (aangevraagd door pojectleider Dr. Mindel van de Laar) geselecteerd voor financiering in een competitief selectieproces om open en online onderwijs aan te moedigen.

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Presentatie beschikbaar. On Saturday October 15th the Holland Expat Center South - Maastricht Region will be organising an information session in cooperation with ABN-AMRO, La Bergère Apartments, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and mobility / ITEM and Pooters...

About a year ago, I lost a bet. As a wager, I had to watch the “The Last Dance”, the Netflix documentary about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. To me, who never watches sports on TV, sitting through a 10-part (!) series about basketball seemed to be quite dreadful. So, I thought. However, after...

The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has selected the project ‘Leading to Success: SMART Choices and SMART Tools’, submitted by project leader Dr. Mindel van de Laar , for funding in a competitive selection process to encourage open and online education.

Scientists from Maastricht University have shown for the first time that the distraction effect – also known as the decoy effect – works not only when shoppers are choosing between variants of one product, but also when the choice is between entirely different products.