There’s a Dutch saying, “There’s nothing past Groningen.” Groningen is basically the tip of civilization as far as the rest of the country is concerned. It’s at the very top of the Netherlands.
I was invited to give a workshop there on March 16. It was great!
For most of my other Dutch workshops I’ve tried to do one-day or at most two-day trips (one hotel night). Not so with Groningen. It’s a little over 3 hours by train from where I live, and the trains don’t run very frequently out there, so this was a full 3-day trip.
That being said, I had a great time! Like a lot of my recent travel, I taught Wednesday morning and then immediately got on a train, eating lunch on the train.
I arrived early enough that I could see a bit of the city before heading to bed. The next day I had a great visit and then headed home on Friday.
One nice thing about the visit to Groningen is that they have a lot of archival researchers, including some that do textual analysis, so I was able to present a working paper on Earnings Announcements that I haven’t been able to present much.
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