An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 850,000) has been awarded to Arturas Juodis
Arturas Juodis
Artūras Juodis receives a Vidi grant for developing a novel methodological framework to make complex economic models more accessible
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Marina Friedrich receives Veni grant for climate research
Marina Friedrich
Marina Friedrich (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Climetrics: Bringing together econometrics and climate sciences'. Friedrich wants to make econometric methods more suitable and accessible for climate researchers, to study climate problems.
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Artūras Juodis and Simas Kučinskas receive Vladas Jurgutis Award
Arturas Juodis, Simas Kucinskas
Simas Kučinskas and Artūras Juodis were granted the 2023 Vladas Jurgutis Award (€10,000) of the Bank of Lithuania for their research on an innovative system for noise quantification in economic expectations.
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Honorable mention for Hande Karabiyik in the Econometric Reviews’ Best Paper competition
Hande Karabiyik
Honorable mention for Hande Karabiyik (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in the Econometric Reviews’ Best Paper competition (2021-2022).
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Julia Schaumburg appointed as Professor of Econometric Methods and Applications
Julia Schaumburg
As of September 1, 2023, Julia Schaumburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) was appointed Professor of Econometric Methods and Applications.
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Best paper award for Mariia Artemova at the IAAE 2023 Conference
Mariia Artemova
PhD student Mariia Artemova (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Student’s Best Paper award at the IAAE 2023 Annual Conference for her single-authored paper “An Order-invariant Score-driven Dynamic Factor Model.”
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Evgenii Vladimirov received the Best Paper Award at 2023 Early-Career Scholars SoFiE Conference
Evgenii Vladimirov
Evgenii Vladimirov received the Best Paper Award at the pre-conference for young scholars of the annual conference of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul (South Korea).
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Daan Opschoor and Terri van der Zwan winners of ECB PhD Paper competition
Daan Opschoor, Terri van der Zwan
TI PhD students Daan Opschoor (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Terri van der Zwan (Erasmus University Rotterdam) are winners of the paper competition for PhD students organized in the context of the 2023 ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques.
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Stan Koobs is jointly awarded the 2022 Gutierrez Toscano Prize
Stan Koobs
PhD student Stan Koobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is jointly awarded the 2022 Gutierrez Toscano Prize for his excellent performance in the MSc in Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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2022 Zellner Medal
Herman van Dijk
Emeritus Fellow Herman van Dijk of Erasmus School of Economics has been awarded the 2022 Zellner Medal from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). The medal recognises ISBA members who have "rendered exceptional service to ISBA over an extended period of time, with a long-lasting impact."
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Honorary Fellow Herman K. van Dijk honored for his contributions to Bayesian econometrics
Herman van Dijk
During the 12th European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE), one of the major conferences in econometrics worldwide and the primary event on Bayesian econometrics in Europe, honorary fellow Herman K. van Dijk will be honored for his contributions to Bayesian econometrics with a special session, followed by a special issue of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
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Phyllis Wan has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 280,000)
Phyllis Wan
Phyllis Wans has been awarded a VENI grant for her three-year project: “Data-driven pattern recognition in multivariate extremes,” which focusses on the study of extremes. Extreme events, such as the 2008 financial crisis or the 2021 European flooding, entail high risks for the society.
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Team VU Amsterdam with PhD students Quint Wiersma and Mariia Artemova second in the Econometric Game 2021
Mariia Artemova, Quint Wiersma
Thirty universities from all over the world participated in the yearly Econometric Game on April 8-9. PhD students of the Tinbergen Institute were part of the teams of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The team of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, consisting of TI PhD students and research master alumni Quint Wiersma (team captain) and Mariia Artemova, and VU master students Niels Ota and Arne Platteau, were rewarded a second place in this prestigious competition for students in econometrics. The team of Erasmus University Rotterdam with TI PhD student Terri van der Zwan (team captain) made top 10.
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Denis Sargan Econometrics Prize for Arturas Juodis
Arturas Juodis
The editors of The Econometrics Journal have awarded the 2019 Denis Sargan Econometrics Prize to research fellow and TI alumnus Artūras Juodis (University of Amsterdam) for his article "Optimal panel unit root testing with covariates” with Joakim Westerlund in the January 2019 issue of The Econometrics Journal (https://doi.org/10.1111/ectj.12118). The price will be presented on Tuesday April, 13 2021.
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Julia Schaumburg has been awarded an NWO VIDI grant (€ 800,000)
Julia Schaumburg
Julia Schaumburg (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has received a VIDI grant for her research project "Statistical learning over time: closing the gap between time-series econometrics and the statistical learning literature".
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Siem Jan Koopman Laureate of a Francqui Chair
Siem Jan Koopman
Siem Jan Koopman (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has been appointed as the 2019-2020 Laureate of the Francqui Chair, at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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Outstanding Simulation Publication Award for Bernd Heidergott and co-authors
Bernd Heidergott
The winners of the INFORMS Simulation Society Outstanding Publication Award for 2019 are Yijie Peng, Michael Fu, Jian-Qiang Hu and Bernd Heidergott for their article titled "A New Unbiased Stochastic Derivative Estimator for Discontinuous Sample Performances with Structural Parameters". Bernd Heidergott is Professor of Stochastic Optimization at the School of Business and Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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The 2019 Engle Prize was awarded to Julia Schaumburg
Julia Schaumburg
The 2019 Engle Prize, awarded by the Journal of Financial Econometrics, has been awarded to Julia Schaumburg (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit). Julia received the prize for her article "Beyond dimension two: A test for higher-order tail risk” (2016, co-authors: Carsten Bormann and Melanie Schienle). The Engle Prize was awarded to a young scholar, for best paper published in 2016, 2017 and 2018 volumes.
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An NWO Open Competition Grant has been awarded to André Lucas
Andre Lucas
André Lucas, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an Open Competition Grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for his research project "Dynamic clustering for business model identification and financial stability".
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An NWO VIDI Grant (€ 800,000) has been awarded to Francisco Blasques
Francisco Blasques
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Francisco Blasques (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his research project: "Econometric methods for incorrect models".