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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David Veenman reappointed as editor of The Accounting Review
David Veenman
Research fellow David Veenman (University of Amsterdam) has been reappointed as Editor of the prestigious journal The Accounting Review.
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Frank Kleibergen elected Fellow of the Econometric Society
Frank Kleibergen
Research Fellow Frank Kleibergen (University of Amsterdam) was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society on October 8, 2025. A total of twenty-five new Fellows have been announced this year. They are then a Fellow for life.
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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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MOA Insights Scientist of the Year 2022
Mirella Kleijnen
Award granted by the Marketing Research Association of the Netherlands. This year's topic: Customer Experience Management in the Digital Age.
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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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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),
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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.
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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.
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Eva Janssens received an Honorable Mention from the KVS
Eva Janssens
Eva Janssens (Federal Reserve Board) received an Honorable Mention from the KVS for her thesis 'Estimation and identification in macroeconomic models with incomplete markets'. Research fellow Christian Stoltenberg acted as supervisor. Eva received the Honorable Mention during the award of the KVS Medal, which is awarded every three years (previously every two years) to the student who has written and defended the best dissertation in economics during the preceding period.
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Florian Wagener elected President of the International Society on Dynamic Games
Florian Wagener
Research fellow Florian Wagener has been elected President of the International Society on Dynamic Games (ISDG) at the 19th Symposium of the Society on July 25-28, 2022.
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Jonne Guyt has won the 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award
Jonne Guyt
Jonne Guyt (University of Amsterdam) has won the 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for his co-authored article 'A War on Sugar'.
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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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Stefanie Huber received the Barcelona GSE SEED grant (€ 5000 Euro)
Stefanie Jeanette Huber
Stefanie Huber (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) received the Barcelona GSE SEED grant (5000 Euro) for the project “Biased Expectations and Skill Mismatch”, 2017.
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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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Yasmine van der Straten is finalist of the ECB Young Economist Prize
Yasmine van der Straten
Yasmine van der Straten (University of Amsterdam) is finalist of the ECB Young Economist Prize. This research competition offers talented students the chance to share their fresh perspectives on today’s challenges. Finalists are invited to the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking, and the overall winner is awarded €10,000.
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Zichen Deng received an Honorable Mention from the KVS
Zichen Deng
Zichen Deng (University of Amsterdam and Norwegian School of Economics) received an Honorable Mention from the KVS for his thesis 'Empirical studies in health and development economics'. Research fellow Maarten Lindeboom acted as supervisor. Zichen received the Honorable Mention during the award of the KVS Medal, which is awarded every three years (previously every two years) to the student who has written and defended the best dissertation in economics during the preceding period.
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Best Paper Award
Hong Deng
Hong Deng (Erasmus University Rotterdam) won the best paper award (PhD track) at the Marketing Dynamics Conference 2022, which took place at Georgia State University on November 10-12. For the award the three best papers in the PhD track were selected based on the audience feedback and the committee evaluation.