Upcoming events
Systemic Risk: CoVaR, Comovement, and Portfolio Selection
Liang Peng (Georgia State University, United States)
- Erasmus Econometric Institute Series
Inference on Union Bounds
Xinyue Bei (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
- Econometrics Seminars and Workshop Series
PhD Job Market Jamboree 2025
PhD students, Placement Director and PhD Alumni
Bounds of the Market Risk Premium
Jens Jackwerth (University of Konstanz, Germany)
- Erasmus Econometric Institute Series
Carbon Home Bias
Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
Research Workshop on Inference and Optimality in Econometrics
Keynote by Isaiah Andrews (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States). Bertille Antoine (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Ismael Yacoub Mourifie (Washington University in St Louis, United States), David Preinerstorfer (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria), Liyang Sun (UCL, United Kingdom), and Frank Windmeijer (University of Oxford, United Kingdom).
Forecasting Crashes with a Smile
Ian Martin (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
- TI Finance Research Seminars
TI Econometrics Lectures 2025 on Asymptotic Optimality in Econometrics
Isaiah Andrews (MIT, United States)
- Econometrics Lecture Series
Dutch Sustainable Finance Workshop 2025
Keynote: Stefano Lovo (HEC Paris, France)
A Crash Course in Design-Based Econometrics
Peter Hull (Brown University, United States)
- Economics Lecture Series
Title to be announced
Pierre Mabille (INSEAD, France)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
On Neural Optimization: Uncertainty, Scarcity and Geometry
Andres Guzman Cordero , , Andres Guzman Cordero
Why study Business Data Science
Business Data Science is a two-year research master (120 EC) aiming to train future PhD students.
7 reasons to study Business Data Science:
- Challenging new research opportunities
- Jumpstart for PhD trajectory
- Focus on Data Science & Business
- Focus on preferred specialization
- Small scale close-knit program
- Scholarships and tuition waivers available
- Three leading universities
Student Experience
Are you more interested in Economics? If so, take a look at our other research master's program.
The Tinbergen Institute serves as a gateway to PhD positions for students who have completed TI’s Research Master's programs in Economics and Business Data Science. PhD vacancies are announced throughout the academic year. For positions also open to external candidates, we encourage you to explore the opportunities listed in our PhD vacancies section.
Business Data Science
The Business Data Science (BDS) research master program at Tinbergen Institute is a joint initiative of the schools of economics and business of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Courses tie the foundations of data science directly to different business fields: management science, operations analytics, quantitative finance and accounting.