ERIM Research Facilities

Excellent research is carried out by excellent researchers,who work (together) under optimal conditions,and who receive the right incentives to perform. To pursue its goals, ERIM employs a set of instruments to:(i) stimulate research communication, cooperation and international exchange; (ii) support the research and publications process; (iii) provide excellent research infrastructure;(iv) stimulate and recognize outstanding achievements; and (v) stimulate quality and monitor performance. The following research facilities are available for ERIM members and ERIM Doctoral candidates. For more details information on these excellent research facilities, please select the link in the title or in the sidebar of this page.

ERIM Support Programmes (ESP)

ERIM has set up a financial support programme for a range of research-related activities, for the research institute, as well as for the PhD programme. These ERIM Support Programmes (ESP) are for the following purposes: Seminars/Colloquia /Workshops, Scientific Conferences, Editing of Scientific Texts, Research Visits, Data and Software, Submission Fees, Personal Research Assistants, Compensation for participants in Erasmus Behavioural Lab (EBL) experiments.

Erasmus Behavioural Lab (EBL)

The Erasmus Behavioural Lab (EBL) is a recent and important facility for conducting high quality experimental behavioral research. The EBL is a joint facility of ERIM, the ESE, RSM, and the Institute of Psychology (IOP). The EBL recently substantially increased its capacity and diversity of equipment and is a state-of-the-art facility for experimental research. Facilities and equipment for behavioral research include an eye tracking lab with facilities and equipment for cognitive neuroscience research, two EEG- labs, a full range of autonomous measurement systems (skin conductance, heart rate).

We operate two subject pools at the EBL lab; one working with course credits (ERPS) and one for payed subjects (EURO). Since last year, ERIM researchers have been able to conduct EBL experiments using the ERIM Research Participation System (ERPS) . This ERPS-subject pool has been a very successful initiative and we are confident that it will have a significant long-term impact on our school’s research productivity. Now that ERPS is well established and tested, we have invested in the improved ERIM’s support to behavioural researchers. Participants recruited via ERPS are awarded course credits only. The second subject pool operates using monetary rewards. This pool, called the Erasmus Research Participation opportunities (EURO) is completely separated from the course credit driven subject pool and has it's own web-entry and profiling.

Erasmus Survey Centre (ESC)

The Erasmus Survey Centre (ESC) is a research facility for researchers and students at ERIM. The ESC survey system uses advanced Globalpark EFS software and servers to design and conduct the electronic surveys. The system enables a broad range of management surveys, from simple questionnaires to surveys with closed user groups and conjoint product analyses with dynamic survey routing. In order to reach every possible target group, surveys can be conducted through several media at the same time: over the internet, through mobile devices and on paper. The data collected through all these procedures can easily be reintegrated and exported with the software provided.

Erasmus Data Service Centre (EDSC)

At the joint initiative of the the Universty Library and the founding schools of ERIM, the Erasmus University established a special data service centre in the summer of 2006. The EDSC provides access to financial and social science databases and gives individual support and workshops for students and staff of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. For this work the EDSC has a team of 5 specialists - the Datateam. The Datateam is itself supported by an advisory body made up of representatives from the faculties concerned and the University Library. Since the summer of 2007, the work terrain of the EDSC has been expanded to cover social sciences data. This has been achieved in collaboration with the School of Social Sciences (FSW). The EDCS provides and entry for the 22 financial databases like Bankscope (both world bank information source as via Wharton), Company.info, various Compustat databases, CRSP, ExecuComp, I/B/E/S, Market Insight, Reach, SDC, various Thomson databases such as Thomson One-Banker, WRDS, Worldscope and Zephyr. Besides the financial databases EDSC provides entry to 17 social science databases, amongst others EUROSTAT, OECD, Unctad, World Database of Happiness. WRDS provides instant access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. Examples are the CISDM Hedge Fund/CTA Database and the CRSP database.

Academic Licenses and Databases

The University Library provides ERIM Members and ERIM Doctoral Candidates access to more than 250 databases. Next to the databases at the University Library, ERIM has access to specialized research software and databases for it's members.