Tinbergen Institute students win first and second prize in the National Economics Olympiad 2023
The team of TI research master students Ming Cheng, Sijmen Rijks and Maartje van Wijhe have won the 2023 edition of the National Economics Olympiad. They set a record by winning the Olympiad two years in a row. The team of TI research master students Borys Rembiasz, Ali Moin and Tạ Lê Ngọc Sáng won the second prize.
We congratulate Ming, Sijmen and Maartje with the prolongation of their title 'best economics students in the Netherlands'. On friday the 10th of March, they defended their title in the National Economics Olympiad and won the competition for the 2nd year in a row! We also congratulate Borys, Ali and Sáng who won the second prize.
The 2023 National Economics Olympiad took place on Friday 10 March 2023 at the headquarters of Rabobank in Utrecht. Participating teams from all over the country, competed for the title ‘best economics students of the Netherlands’. For more information we refer to the National Economics Olympiad website.
The National Economics Olympiad (NEO) is a problem-solving competition for Bachelor and Master students in Economics, organized by the study association AEclipse and the Royal Dutch Economic Association (KVS) in close collaboration with Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) and the Dutch Journal on Policy Economics (ESB). Students in teams of three are tasked with solving challenging questions set by professors from different Dutch institutions encompassing topics related to the varied branches of economics.