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  • Didier Nibbering awarded the Christiaan Huygens Science Award

    Didier Nibbering

    PhD alumnus Didier was granted a bronze statue and a cash prize of 10,000 euros by Ingrid van Engelshoven, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science. According to the Chair of the jury, professor Philip Hans Franses, Nibbering was awarded the prize because his dissertation is "highly developed in terms of quality and content ... well-written and distinctive because of the clear theorization and impressive in the original way of thinking". Amongst the nominees was another Tinbergen Institute alumnus, dr. Merrick Li.

  • AQR Top Finance Graduate Award

    Simon Mayer

    On September 17, 2021, the Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC) and the Department of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) host the ninth edition of their AQR Top Finance Graduate Award. Among this year's winners is Simon Mayer, with his paper entitled Money Creation in Decentralized Finance: A Dynamic Model of Stablecoin and Crypto Shadow Banking. Prize $ 10,000. The other three winners have a PhD from Chicago, Harvard and Columbia University.

  • Pilar García-Gómez appointed as Professor of Applied Economics

    Pilar Garcia-Gomez

    As of 1 September 2021, research fellow Pilar García-Gómez has been appointed Professor of Applied Economics with focus on Health and Labour at Erasmus School of Economics.

  • 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.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Bastian Ravesteijn and Coen van de Kraats

    Bastian Ravesteijn, Coen van de Kraats

    Bastian Ravesteijn (Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Coen van de Kraats (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Using big data to give children a promising start in life.” The aim of this project is to personalize prevention and care from the moment a child is conceived throughout childhood since. Currently one in seven children in the Netherlands is deprived of a healthy life start in life. They will bring novel PYHC data into the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) secure microdata environment and work together with our PYHC partners to assess and improve the quality of these data, in order to document how, when, and where the “childhood opportunity gap” opens up in the Netherlands. They will use the infomration that is available during gestation or in early childhood to predict later childhood outcomes, in order to better target existing preventive actions to children and (future) parents.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Titus Galama and Sjoerd van Alten

    Sjoerd van Alten, Titus Galama

    Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Sjoerd van Alten (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Genetic and environmental determinants of socioeconomic status in the Lifelines cohort.”

  • Cars Hommes co-author of prize winning paper

    Cars Hommes

    Cars Hommes (full professor at UvA) is co-author of the prize winning paper in the paper competition that was set up by the Rebuilding Macroeconomics research initiative. In their paper "Economic Forecasting with an Agent-based Model", Sebastian Poledna, Michael Gregor Miess and Cars Hommes present the first agent-based model (ABM) that can compete with benchmark VAR and DSGE models in out-of-sample forecasting of macro variables. Potential applications of the model include stress-testing and predicting the effects of changes in monetary, fiscal, or other macroeconomic policies. "Rebuilding Macroeconomics" (RM) is a research initiative funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and was founded in 2017. RM is hosted by the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London.

  • Simon Mayer wins the 2021 Best Job Market Paper in Finance Theory

    Simon Mayer

    Simon Mayer (PhD student VU) was awarded the 2021 Best Job Market Paper in Finance Theory. This prize is annually awarded by the Finance Theory Group for the best theory paper on the finance job market. It is a highly prestigious award confirming academic excellence. Many of the winners are from world's top universities in economics and finance.

  • 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.

  • Paper by Anne Gielen featured as chart of the week in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

    Anne Gielen

    The paper ‘Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance' by research fellow Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Gordon B. Dahl (University of California, San Diego, United States) is being featured as chart of the week in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Rogier Quaedvlieg receives J.C. Ruigrok Prize

    Rogier Quaedvlieg

    Rogier Quaedvlieg (Erasmus School of Economics) has been awarded the prestigious annual J.C. Ruigrok Prize by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. The J.C. Ruigrok Prize is an incentive for junior researchers, to reward original research in the field of social sciences.

  • 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.

  • NWO research grant for multidisciplinary team including Vladimir Karamychev

    Vladimir Karamychev

    A multidisciplinary research team, including fellow Vladimir Karamychev (Erasmus School of Economics), has received a research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant is 500,000 euro worth and awarded to study the effect of energy transition on energy consumption and fuel poverty of low income households. In the project, which goes under the acronym BELOpens external (Behaviour, Energy transition, Low income), a consortium of three universities and four social housing providers participate.

  • Vrije Universiteit Master Thesis Award for TI student Leonardo Menezes Bravo Alvo Nunes

    Leonardo Menezes Bravo Alvo Nunes

    What are the effects of the city wide parking prices increases that were implied in Amsterdam in April 2019? This is the main question that research master student Leonardo Nunes addresses in his master thesis on ’Parking policy: Evidence from Amsterdam’. For this thesis Leonardo received the 2020 Vrije Universiteit Master Thesis Award.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Massimo Giuliodori and Lisa Timm

    Lisa Timm, Massimo Giuliodori

    Massimo Giuliodori (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) received the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project evaluating the impact and effectiveness of the 30% tax rule. Additionally, the Ministry of Finance supports the project through providing access to unique data on who has benefited from the 30% tax rule. The data has been linked with CBS microdata. he project will be carried out by Massimo Giuliodori (UvA) and Paul Muller (VU). Lisa Timm (Research Master student Tinbergen Institute) will write her PhD thesis on these topics.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Paul Muller

    Paul Muller

    Paul Muller (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project evaluating the impact and effectiveness of the 30% tax rule. Additionally, the Ministry of Finance supports the project through providing access to unique data on who has benefited from the 30% tax rule. The data has been linked with CBS microdata. he project will be carried out by Massimo Giuliodori (UvA) and Paul Muller (VU). Lisa Timm (Research Master student Tinbergen Institute) will write her PhD thesis on these topics.

  • ABS Dissertation Award 2020 for Robin Döttling

    Robin Döttling

    Alumnus Robin Döttling, currently assistant professor at the Finance Department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and former Tinbergen Institute research master and graduate student, recently received the Amsterdam Business School (ABS) Dissertation Award 2020 for his thesis, 'Essays in financial economics,' written under supervision of research fellow Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam).

  • National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Grant for Hans van Kippersluis

    Hans van Kippersluis

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States, has awarded Hans van Kippersluis, (Erasmus School of Economics) with a High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56). This grant is awarded to researchers who have written a highly meritorious application for a one- or two-year high priority project.