Albert Schram
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Professor, History and Humanities
University of Maryland Global Campus
Albert Schram is an Italian-Dutch economic historian and management consultant. He speaks 4 European languages fluently and some PNG Tok Pidgin, has lived and worked in 10 different countries and done assignments in over 30. His international academic career started in Costa Rica, where he became a professor at the Latin American University of Science and Technology (ULACIT). He taught history as well as management in various programs. In 2010 in the Netherlands, he was trained in Problem-Based Learning (PBL) at Maastricht University, one of the dozen or so PBL universities in the world. In 2018, he received all internal training from the University of Maryland Global Campus where he currently teaches. In 2019 and 2020, he participated in numerous professional development courses with QM. During his career he co-wrote 24 successful grant proposals for the European Commission framework programs, 11 for the Dutch Science Foundation and 9 other grants.
EDUCATION
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley (CA-USA) — Fellow Executive Leadership Academy
Graduate certifica
MARCH 2015
All aspects of University management and leadership.
European University Institute Florence (Italy) —
Doctorate (PhD)
NOV 1994
Doctorate in economic and business history. Won one of two competitive doctoral scholarships. Won research secondment
scholarship for 1 semester, London School of Economics.
Netherlands Institute for Foreign Relations
Clingendael The Hague (The Netherlands) —
Graduate Certificate International Relations
JUNE 1989
University of Utrecht, Utrecht (Netherlands) —
Masters
NOV 1988
Masters (MA) in History, with Minor in political sciences from Leyden University. Won annual scholarship for Netherlands Institute in Rome, for Masters thesis research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
higher education, university ranking, diversity, strategy, economic history, sustainability, climate change
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Scopus Publications
Jan Jaap Bouma, Delphine François, Albert Schram, and Tom Verbeke
Elsevier BV
One way to address the assessment of strategies to control wave overtopping at seawalls and related coastal defence structures is to make use of Cost-Benefit Analysis. The institutional context in which Cost-Benefit Analysis takes place influences decisions on the types of values that are taken into consideration and the subsequent selection of valuation methods. We suggest to consider Cost-Benefit Analysis in a broad institutional framework when decisions are to be made on coastal defence strategies. It is argued that the institutional context provides the rules of the game on how a balance can be found between social, economic and ecologic functions of projects that protect societies against overtopping.
Francisco Alpízar, Till Requate, and Albert Schram
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
This paper presents an experimental study oftwo different pollution compliance games:collective vis-à-vis random fining as ameans to regulate non-pointpollution. Using samples from both Costa Ricancoffee mill managers and Costa Rican students,we find that the two games perform equivalentlybut, although they lead to efficient outcomesthrough Nash play in the majority of cases, theobserved frequency of Nash play is lower thantheoretically predicted. Moreover, we rejectthe hypothesis that managers and studentsbehave equally. Off the equilibrium, managerstend to over-abate, whereas students tend tounder-abate. This result suggests theimportance of considering subject pooldifferences in the evaluation of environmentalpolicies by means of experiments, particularlyif those policies involve certain forms ofmanagement decisions.