Juan Juan Cai
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a research grant from the Open Competition Domain Science - M-2 to Juan Juan Cai to develop novel statistical methods for predicting the cure probability and the survival time of the patients.
Arturas Juodis
Artūras Juodis receives a Vidi grant for developing a novel methodological framework to make complex economic models more accessible
Bas van der Klaauw, Hessel Oosterbeek, Monique de Haan, Nadine Ketel
Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Van der Klaauw's research focuses on lottery systems in secondary education and is conducted in collaboration with research fellows Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Monique de Haan and Hessel Oosterbeek (both University of Amsterdam)
Arturas Juodis, Simas Kucinskas
Simas Kučinskas and Artūras Juodis were granted the 2023 Vladas Jurgutis Award (€10,000) of the Bank of Lithuania for their research on an innovative system for noise quantification in economic expectations.
Hande Karabiyik
Honorable mention for Hande Karabiyik (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in the Econometric Reviews’ Best Paper competition (2021-2022).
Frank Kleibergen, Haobai Guo
Frank Kleibergen, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, received an Open Competition Grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for his research project "Double robust inference for structural economic models (DRISEM)". The project will be carried out toegether with PhD student Haobai Guo.
Julia Schaumburg
As of September 1, 2023, Julia Schaumburg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) was appointed Professor of Econometric Methods and Applications.
Mariia Artemova
PhD student Mariia Artemova (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the Student’s Best Paper award at the IAAE 2023 Annual Conference for her single-authored paper “An Order-invariant Score-driven Dynamic Factor Model.”
Timo Schenk
PhD student Timo Schenk (University of Amsterdam) received an Honorable mention for the single-authored paper entitled “Identification and Estimation of Indirect Effects with Difference-in-Difference”
Florian Wagener
Research fellow Florian Wagener has been elected President of the International Society on Dynamic Games (ISDG) at the 19th Symposium of the Society on July 25-28, 2022.
Mariia Artemova, Quint Wiersma
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.
Arturas Juodis
The editors of The Econometrics Journal have awarded the 2019 Denis Sargan Econometrics Prize to research fellow and TI alumnus Artūras Juodis (University of Amsterdam) for his article "Optimal panel unit root testing with covariates” with Joakim Westerlund in the January 2019 issue of The Econometrics Journal (https://doi.org/10.1111/ectj.12118). The price will be presented on Tuesday April, 13 2021.
Julia Schaumburg
Julia Schaumburg (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has received a VIDI grant for her research project "Statistical learning over time: closing the gap between time-series econometrics and the statistical learning literature".
Siem Jan Koopman
Siem Jan Koopman (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has been appointed as the 2019-2020 Laureate of the Francqui Chair, at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Julia Schaumburg
The 2019 Engle Prize, awarded by the Journal of Financial Econometrics, has been awarded to Julia Schaumburg (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit). Julia received the prize for her article "Beyond dimension two: A test for higher-order tail risk” (2016, co-authors: Carsten Bormann and Melanie Schienle). The Engle Prize was awarded to a young scholar, for best paper published in 2016, 2017 and 2018 volumes.
Andre Lucas
André Lucas, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an Open Competition Grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities for his research project "Dynamic clustering for business model identification and financial stability".
Francisco Blasques
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Francisco Blasques (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his research project: "Econometric methods for incorrect models".
Eva Janssens, Frank Kleibergen
Research Master student Eva Janssens has been awarded a three-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Estimation and Identification of Parameters in Macroeconomic Models with Incomplete Markets". The project will be supervised by research fellows Frank Kleibergen and Christian Stoltenberg, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
Arturas Juodis
Arturas Juodis, TI research master and PhD alumnus, has been awarded a VENI grant for his project: "We do not live in a bubble: economic shocks in misspecified panel data models ".
Bas van der Klaauw
Bas van der Klaauw (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an NWO-VICI grant for his research project “Improving Human Capital by Allocating Individuals Efficiently to Schools and Jobs”.