Upcoming events
Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee...
Vincenzo Pezone (Tilburg University)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
Joint Estimation of Conditional Mean and Covariance for Unbalanced...
Paul Schneider (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
- Erasmus Econometric Institute Series
Me and MY Replika: Uncovering the Mechanisms and Outcomes of...
Dominik Siemon (LUT University, Finland)
- ABRI Seminar (Vrije Universiteit)
Title to be announced
Julia Koh (Tilburg University)
- Econometrics Seminars and Workshop Series
Corporate Tax Cuts and Firm-Level Competition
Elliott Weder
- PhD Seminars
Title to be announced
Xiaomeng Chen
- PhD Seminars
VU Master’s Event
Emission Caps and Investment in Green Technologies
Bruno Biais (HEC Paris, France)
- TI Finance Research Seminars
Do Public Equities Span Private Equity Returns?
Mirco Rubin (EDHEC Business School, France)
- Erasmus Econometric Institute Series
Title to be announced
Susan Athey (Stanford University, United States)
- Labor Seminars
Genuinely Robust Inference for Clustered Data
Yulong Wang (Syracuse University, United States)
- Econometrics Seminars and Workshop Series
EUR Master Open Day (hybrid)
Title to be annoucned
Lin Shen (INSEAD Fontainebleau, France)
- TI Finance Research Seminars
Open Days Graduate Program
Get acquainted with our Research Master program in Business Data Science at one of the open days:
- Saturday March 8, 2025 - VU Master’s Event (on campus)
- Saturday March 22, 2025 - EUR Master Open Day (hybrid)
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 partner research master 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.