Team VU Amsterdam with PhD students Quint Wiersma and Mariia Artemova second in the Econometric Game 2021
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. Lund University took home the first place and the University of Cambridge the third. View all participating teams here.
Photo: Mariia Artemova, Quint Wiersma, Niels Ota and Arne Platteau (from left to right). Credit: Econometrics Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.