Sweder van Wijnbergen and Stephanie Chan won FABS 2016 Barcelona Conference Awards best conference paper

TI fellow Sweder van Wijnbergen and PhD student Stephanie Chan won the IFABS 2016 Barcelona Conference Awards for best conference paper at IFABS 2016 Barcelona Conference...

June 24, 2016

MPhil student Pim Kastelein receives NWO Research Talent grant

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Research Talent grant to Pim Kastelein for his project ‘Pension funding, housing wealth and...

June 17, 2016

Fellow Martijn Dröes wins RICS best paper award on valuation

The winner of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Award was announced at the 23rd European Real Estate Society (ERES) Conference in Regensburg, June 10, 2...

June 11, 2016

PhD student Stephan Jagau has won third prize in the UvA 2016 Thesis Prize Competition

PhD student Stephan Jagau has been awarded the third prize in the UvA 2016 Thesis prize Competition. In his MPhil thesis Stephan examined empirically what mechanism deter...

June 10, 2016

Francisco Blasques, Siem Jan Koopman, Max Mallee and Zhaokun Zhang in Journal of Econometrics

The article entitled ‘Weighted maximum likelihood for dynamic factor analysis and forecasting with mixed frequency data’ authored by TI candidate fellow Franc...

June 08, 2016

Fellow Jan Willem Gunning appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau

Research fellow Jan Willem Gunning, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the VU University Amsterdam, was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau, for his important...

June 01, 2016

Maarten Lindeboom editor of the Journal of Health Economics

Research fellow Maarten Lindeboom has become editor of The Journal of Health Economics (AI factor 94). It is the leading international journal in the field of economics o...

May 27, 2016

Fellow Peter Wakker receives honorary degree of University St. Gallen

On 21 May 2016 TI fellow Peter Wakker received an honorary doctorate from the University St. Gallen. With this honorary degree the Swiss university, in particular the Sch...

May 27, 2016

PhD Defense Zara Sharif

On Thursday June 2, 2016 Zara Sharif defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Essays on Strategic Communication’ at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Supervisor is...

May 27, 2016

Valedictory Lecture Frans van Winden

Research fellow Frans van Winden will give his valedictory lecture on Friday June 3, 2016 at the University of Amsterdam. He is founding-director of CREED (1991-2011) and...