NWO awards funding to Harold Houba for conference
Harold Houba
NWO has awarded funding for the 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference: 70 years of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
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Igo Dobbe was awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijs 2026
Igo Dobbe
PhD student Igo Dobbe (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is the winner of the annual Jan Brouwer Thesis Award 2026, in the category of Economics and Business Economics.
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The 2024 H. Gregg Lewis Prize has been awarded to Nadine Ketel
Nadine Ketel
The prestigious H. Gregg Lewis Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics during 2022–23 has been awarded to research fellow and alumna Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and co-author Anna Bindler (University of Cologne, Germany) for “Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization,” which appeared in the October 2022 issue of the journal.
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Jens Klooster wins Willem R. van Zwet Award
Jens Klooster
Jens Klooster has been awarded the Willem R. van Zwet AwardOpens external. Each year, the award is bestowed to the best PhD thesis in statistics or operations research obtained at a Dutch university. The annual contest is organised by the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR).
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Honorable mention for Timo Schenk at the IAAE 2023 Conference
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”
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Shaul Shalvi has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award. The biennial Jane Beattie Award is awarded by the European Association for Decision Making, in recognition of “innovation in decision research”. Shalvi received the award for his innovative research in ethical decision making.
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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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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."
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Outstanding paper in investments award For Albert Menkveld
Albert J. Menkveld
The Eastern Finance Association (EFA) has granted the outstanding paper in investments award to Albert J. Menkveld (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his paper: "Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Market Quality."
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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."
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The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded a Sara van Dam grant (€ 99,816) to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded a Sara van Dam grant to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) for his research project "Developing empathy to boost honesty: A behavioral ethics approach."
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World Bank DEC VPU Award 2020 for PHD student Bo Andree
Bo Andree
Bo Andree, PhD student at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received the DEC VPU award in recognition of outstanding work on analytical support to World Bank Operations. Granting Organisation: World Bank
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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.
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Bo Andree received the World Bank Spot Award
Bo Andree
Bo Andree (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the World Bank Spot Award for work on predicting food crises Granting Organisation: World Bank
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Arnold Zellner Thesis Award for Geert Mesters
Geert Mesters
Geert Mesters (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit) received the Arnold Zellner Thesis Award for his thesis: “Essays on Nonlinear Panel Time Series Models”, granted by the Business and Economic Statistics section of the American Statistical Association
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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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2020 Rotterdam Thesis Award for Mareen Bastiaans
Mareen Bastiaans
The 2020 Rotterdam Thesis Award has been awarded to PhD student Mareen Bastiaans (Erasmus University Rotterdam) for her thesis ‘Labour market and health effects of an activation programme for the long-term inactive.’
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The Pierson Penning 2020 was awarded to Sweder van Wijnbergen
Sweder van Wijnbergen
Sweder van Wijnbergen (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the Pierson Penning on 16 December 2020. The medal was presented by Klaas Knot, chairman of the board of the Pierson Fund and president of De Nederlandsche Bank. The Pierson Medal is awarded once every 3 years to highly deserving Dutch economists who have distinguished themselves through the quality and depth of their publications.
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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.
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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.