Andre Lucas
André Lucas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for the project titled 'The Best of both Worlds: Model Specification and Inference in Hybrid Machine Learning Econometric Models.'
Wendun Wang
Wendun Wang (Erasmus University Rotterdam) has been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for their project titled 'Bringing hidden Patterns to Light: Uncovering hidden Network Connections in Complex Data.'
Juan Juan Cai
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a research grant from the Open Competition Domain Science - M-2 to Juan Juan Cai to develop novel statistical methods for predicting the cure probability and the survival time of the patients.
Arturas Juodis
Artūras Juodis receives a Vidi grant for developing a novel methodological framework to make complex economic models more accessible
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.
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.
Hande Karabiyik
Honorable mention for Hande Karabiyik (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in the Econometric Reviews’ Best Paper competition (2021-2022).
Frank Kleibergen, Haobai Guo
Frank Kleibergen, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, received an Open Competition Grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for his research project "Double robust inference for structural economic models (DRISEM)". The project will be carried out toegether with PhD student Haobai Guo.
Julia Schaumburg
As of September 1, 2023, Julia Schaumburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) was appointed Professor of Econometric Methods and Applications.
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.”
Timo Schenk
PhD student Timo Schenk (University of Amsterdam) received an Honorable mention for the single-authored paper entitled “Identification and Estimation of Indirect Effects with Difference-in-Difference”
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.