Yasmine Van Der Straten

Yasmine van der Straten is a PhD Candidate in Finance at the University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, and a visiting PhD student at De Nederlandsche Bank. Yasmine's research focuses on macro-finance, climate finance, household finance. She combines theory and empirics to explore how financing frictions affect our response to climate change, through adaptation and mitigation, and its distributional consequences. Yasmine also studies the impact of climate risk on asset prices, and how climate risk, through its macro-financial implications, affects political support for climate policies. In the Spring of 2024, Yasmine visited the Finance Department of Imperial College London. She has received the CEPR Household Finance Best Student Paper Prize and the Best Single-Authored Paper Award at the European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop. Yasmine 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. Yasmine hold an MPhil in Economics from Tinbergen Institute (with distinction), a Bachelor of Science in Economics (with highest distinction, valedictorian) and a Bachelor in Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam.