Elisabeth Pröhl (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the 2020 Aliprantis prize by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory for her paper “Existence and Uniqueness of Recursive Equilibria with Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk”.
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.’
Alumnus Robin Döttling, currently assistant professor at the Finance Department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and former Tinbergen Institute research master and graduate student, recently received the Amsterdam Business School (ABS) Dissertation Award 2020 for his thesis, 'Essays in financial economics,' written under supervision of research fellow Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam).
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.
A warm welcome to the new cohort 2020-2022 of Research Master students that arrived this week.
Tinbergen Institute would like to give a very warm welcome to our new Research Master students of cohort 2018-2020, who started their classes at the end of August.
On Friday November 13, the TI research master cohort of 2018 will receive their diploma at the TI graduation ceremony.
The Tinbergen Institute research master cohort of 2022 will receive their diploma at the graduation ceremony on Friday November 18, 14:30-18:30. ...
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),
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
Sander Onderstal and Joep Sonnemans (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) have been awarded an EU Horizon 2020 grant for their project "Improving Sustainability in Food Processing using Moderate Electric Fields for Process Intensification and Smart Processing." The grant was awarded to a consortium of seven European universities: coordinating institution University College Dublin (Ireland), Sheffield Hallam University (UK), Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy), Technical University of Valencia (Spain), Lund University (Sweden), TU Berlin (Germany), and the University of Amsterdam. The total amount received for the project is € 1,300,000 euros, with € 250,000 allocated to the University of Amsterdam. The Dutch part of the grant will be covered by NWO's (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) natural sciences domain (ENW).
LISS Grant 2020 for project Policy Experimentation Aversion by research fellow Robert Dur and Benedetta Ricci (both Erasmus School of Economics). Via the grant, the researchers will get access to free panel time. The LISS panel, managed by CentERdata, gives researchers access to survey data from about 7,000 respondents from approximately 4,500 households.
A consortium of European research partners, including TI Fellows Eric Bartelsman and Sabien Dobbelaere from School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, were awarded a grant for a three year Horizon 2020 research project. The project, Raising EU Productivity: Lessons from Improved Micro Data (MicroProd), will examine the empirical observation that productivity growth in the developed world has slowed down in the past decade despite both continuation of technological innovation as well as greater openness to trade.
On February 26, 2021 there will be a CAED 2020 seminar entitled 'Immigration and Entrepreneurship'.
On November 27 at 14:00 CET there will be a seminar on the topic of The Welfare Impact of Market Power. The OPEC Cartel. This seminar is part of the Comparative Analysis...
On Friday afternoon November 13, 2020, the student cohort of 2018-2020 received their diplomas at the TI graduation ceremony held at Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam for stu...
The graduation ceremony for the TI Research Master students of cohort 2020-2022 took place on November 18. Congratulations to all our graduates!
The Tinbergen Institute Lectures of 2020 with Robert S. Pindyck (MIT) were cancelled due to COVID19. The TI Economics Lectures 2021 is replaced with Economic Policy Resea...
Candidate fellow Elisabeth Pröhl (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the 2020 Aliprantis prize by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory for her paper...