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  • Xu Lin was awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptie prijs

    Xu Lin

    The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Society of Sciences) has awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijs (thesis award) to TI graduate Xu Lin. Lin wrote her thesis entitled Buying Time to Save Lives: Evaluating COVID-19 Lockdown Policies using a Behavioral SEIR as part of the Research Master in Economics at the Tinbergen Institute. Xu Lin is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. TI Research Fellow Sweder van Wijnbergen acted as supervisor for Xu Lin’s master thesis.

  • Ranked 1st in Dutch ESB Economist top 40 2021

    Albert J. Menkveld

    For the year 2021, over half of the top 40 consists of TI Research Fellows. Moreover, the top 3 consists of TI research fellows entirely: Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit), Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit) and Patrick Verwijmeren (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Albert Menkveld now ranks first for the second year in a row.

  • Anne Opschoor has been awarded an NWO VIDI Grant of € 800,000

    Anne Opschoor

    Anne Opschoor receives an NWO Vidi grant for his research 'Heterogeneity in extreme risks in high dimensions' Uncertainties like covid19 or Brexit have potentially different effects on countries and industries. Most contemporary models cannot describe such heterogeneity sufficiently well. This research develops new models with more heterogeneity in risk responses and investigates the economic differentiation and robustness of different countries and industries in Europe.

  • NWO Open Competition grant for Eric Bartelsman and Enrico Perotti

    Enrico Perotti, Eric Bartelsman

    Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) and Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been granted NWO funding for their research project 'Understanding the role of IT progress and globalization in economic growth' in the NWO Open Competition - Social Sciences and Humanities. Project: A slowing global economy and steady rise in inequality are threatening social cohesion. The project investigates the role of IT progress and globalization in causing unequal economic growth, and explains puzzling trends in capital and labor markets. It will guide a sustainable policy for economic and financial stability. With the NWO Open Competition-SSH, NWO Social Sciences and Humanities wants to offer researchers the opportunity to carry out research into a subject of their own choosing without any thematic constraints. The funding instrument is intended for senior researchers who may no longer apply for a Veni, Vidi and Vici grant within the Talent Scheme.

  • Tinbergen Institute students winners of the National Economics Olympiad 2021

    Antonia Kurz, Yasmine van der Straten

    The two participating teams with students of the research master program in Economics took home first and second place in the National Economics Olympiad (NEO), a problem-solving competition for Bachelor and Master students in Economics, that was held completely remotely on March 5. TI Research master students Antonia Kurz and Yasmine van der Straten (on photo), together with Andrea Pogliano from the Erasmus University Rotterdam got first place. The team comprised of TI research master students Aishameriane Schmidt, Andrea Titton and Oliver Feltham took the second place.

  • 2020 Aliprantis prize for Elisabeth Pröhl

    Elisabeth Pröhl

    Elisabeth Pröhl (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the 2020 Aliprantis prize by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory for her paper “Existence and Uniqueness of Recursive Equilibria with Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk”.

  • Albert J. Menkveld ranked first in the 2020 Dutch Economists Top 40

    Albert J. Menkveld

    Albert J. Menkveld ranked first in the 2020 Dutch Economists Top 40. The Economist Top 40 (economentop) is a list of the best publishing economists in the Netherlands published annually by ESB magazine (Economisch Statistische Berichten). The list is based on all peer-reviewed published articles by Dutch economists between January 2015 and December 2019. In total 22 TI fellows are listed in the 2020 rankings: Albert J. Menkveld (1), Thomas Buser (3), Peter Wakker (6), Patrick Verwijmeren (7), Siem Jan Koopman (8), Bas van der Klaauw (9), Andre Lucas (10), Aurelien Baillon (11), Pieter Gautier (12), Cars Hommes (15), Han Bleichrodt (17), Jos van Ommeren (18), Theo Offerman (19), Jan van Ours (20), Arthur Schram (21), Utz Weitzel (22), Hans Koster (24), Olivier Marie (26), Hessel Oosterbeek (27), Erik Verhoef (30), Vladimir Vladimirov (33), Sjoerd van Bekkum (37),

  • An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 2,000,000) has been awarded to Peter Koudijs

    Peter Koudijs

    The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Peter Koudijs, Professor of Financial Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics a Consolidator Grant for his project "One of Mans’s greatest inventions? Historical insights into limited Liability".

  • Peter Koudijs has been awarded an NWO VIDI grant (€ 800,000)

    Peter Koudijs

    The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Professor Peter Koudijs of Erasmus School of Economics with a NWO VIDI grant for his research project: "Limited liability: blessing or curse?"

  • Xuan Wang ECB Young Economist's competition finalist

    Xuan Wang

    Xuan Wang (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is ECB Young Economist's competition finalist. Every year the European Central Bank invites young economists to enter its research competition. Finalists are invited to the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking, and the overall winner is awarded €10,000.

  • An NWO VICI grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Roger Laeven

    Roger Laeven

    NWO has granted a VICI grant to Roger Laeven, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam for his research project "21st-Century Risks: Tackling the Complex Interplay of Risks in Time and Space". This research project will develop innovative concepts, methods and techniques to model and measure 21st-century global risks like a financial, climate or cyber crisis.

  • Esad Smajlbegovic receives the Top Talent Researcher Award

    Esad Smajlbegovic

    Esad Smajlbegovic (Erasmus School of Economics) has been awarded the 2019 Top Talent Researcher Award (together with Ying Gan and Krzysztof Postek). The award is awarded by the Management Team of Erasmus School of Economics.

  • KRX Outstanding Paper Award for Albert J. Menkveld

    Albert J. Menkveld

    The Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives has awarded the KRX Outstanding Paper Award" ($1,500) to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper "Central Counterparty Exposure in Stressed Markets."

  • 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".

  • Nasdaq Nordic Foundation Grant for Egle Karmaziene

    Egle Karmaziene

    Egle Karmaziene (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a grant from Nasdaq Nordic Foundation for independent research to study stock liquidity in segmented markets.

  • Top 3 paper award for Utz Weitzel

    Utz Weitzel

    The Financial Management Journal has granted the Top 3 paper award to Utz Weitzel (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper: “Sold Below Value? Why Takeover Offers Can Have Negative Premiums."

  • RAPS Best Paper Award ($ 20,000) for Albert J. Menkveld

    Albert J. Menkveld

    The Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS) has awarded the Best Paper Award to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper "Crowded Positions: An Overlooked Systemic Risk for Central Clearing Parties" received."

  • 2018 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Enrico Perotti

    Enrico Perotti, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

    The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization have awarded the 2018 annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, & Enrico C. Perotti (University of Amsterdam) for their article "The Emergence of the Corporate Form."

  • An NWO VICI grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Albert Menkveld

    Albert J. Menkveld

    NWO awarded a VICI grant to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) for his research project "Financial Techology (FinTech's) Disruptive Impact on Financial Markets: Social Costs and Benefits of an Emerging New Architecture”. Albert’s research focuses on robotic trading. Robots facilitate trade, but increasingly act as traders themselves. Is this new architecture better than the old one? And what are the risks involved?

  • An NWO Research Talent grant has been awarded to Shihao Yu

    Albert J. Menkveld, Shihao Yu

    Research Master student Shihao Yu has been awarded a five-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Social Costs and Benefits of Financial Technology (FinTech)". The project will be supervised by research fellow Albert J. Menkveld, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.