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Hicks-Tinbergen Award 2022
Florian Sniekers
Alumnus Florian Sniekers (Tilburg University), together with co-authors with Espen R. Moen (Norwegian Business School (BI)) and Plamen T. Nenov (Norwegian Business School (BI)) are the winners of the prestigious Hicks-Tinbergen Award 2022 for their paper Buying First or Selling First in Housing Markets (JEEA Volume 19 Issue 1).
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Honorary Fellow Herman K. van Dijk honored for his contributions to Bayesian econometrics
Herman van Dijk
During the 12th European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE), one of the major conferences in econometrics worldwide and the primary event on Bayesian econometrics in Europe, honorary fellow Herman K. van Dijk will be honored for his contributions to Bayesian econometrics with a special session, followed by a special issue of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
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Fulbright Fellowship Awarded to PhD student Terri van der Zwan
Terri van der Zwan
Terri van der Zwan, Tinbergen Institute PhD candidate at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus School of Economics, has received a Fulbright Promovendus Award to research new methodologies on how to combine multi-frequency data.Terri will spend the Fall semester of the academic year 2022-2023 in the United States conducting research for her next project, attending seminars and conferences, and building relationships with fellow scholars.She will be based at the Rady School of Management, hosted by Professor Allan Timmermann at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
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Titus Galama receives Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant
Titus Galama
Titus Galama (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), who is affiliated with the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) project on behalf of the School of Business and Economics, will spend part of the grant money (€548,740) together with scientists and students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, studying the relationship between genes (nature) and environment (nurture) in health, education and work. One of the spearheads is to better understand the causes of inequality.
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Phyllis Wan has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 280,000)
Phyllis Wan
Phyllis Wans has been awarded a VENI grant for her three-year project: “Data-driven pattern recognition in multivariate extremes,” which focusses on the study of extremes. Extreme events, such as the 2008 financial crisis or the 2021 European flooding, entail high risks for the society.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme
Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld
The European Commission has granted research fellows Hans van Kippersluis and Niels Rietveld with a 2.9 million euros Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme.
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Best paper award
Fleur Deken
Best-Paper Award 2022 at Journal of Strategic Information Systems, paper ‘Resourcing with Data: Unpacking the Process of Creating Data-Driven Value Propositions’, with Wendy Günther, Mohammad Rezazade Mehiriz, Marleen Huysman, Fleur Deken & Frans Feldberg
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Xu Lin was awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptie prijs
Xu Lin
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Society of Sciences) has awarded the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijs (thesis award) to TI graduate Xu Lin. Lin wrote her thesis entitled Buying Time to Save Lives: Evaluating COVID-19 Lockdown Policies using a Behavioral SEIR as part of the Research Master in Economics at the Tinbergen Institute. Xu Lin is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. TI Research Fellow Sweder van Wijnbergen acted as supervisor for Xu Lin’s master thesis.
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Ranked 1st in Dutch ESB Economist top 40 2021
Albert J. Menkveld
For the year 2021, over half of the top 40 consists of TI Research Fellows. Moreover, the top 3 consists of TI research fellows entirely: Albert Menkveld (Vrije Universiteit), Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit) and Patrick Verwijmeren (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Albert Menkveld now ranks first for the second year in a row.
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Didier Nibbering awarded the Christiaan Huygens Science Award
Didier Nibbering
PhD alumnus Didier was granted a bronze statue and a cash prize of 10,000 euros by Ingrid van Engelshoven, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science. According to the Chair of the jury, professor Philip Hans Franses, Nibbering was awarded the prize because his dissertation is "highly developed in terms of quality and content ... well-written and distinctive because of the clear theorization and impressive in the original way of thinking". Amongst the nominees was another Tinbergen Institute alumnus, dr. Merrick Li.
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AQR Top Finance Graduate Award
Simon Mayer
On September 17, 2021, the Center for Financial Frictions (FRIC) and the Department of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) host the ninth edition of their AQR Top Finance Graduate Award. Among this year's winners is Simon Mayer, with his paper entitled Money Creation in Decentralized Finance: A Dynamic Model of Stablecoin and Crypto Shadow Banking. Prize $ 10,000. The other three winners have a PhD from Chicago, Harvard and Columbia University.
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Pilar García-Gómez appointed as Professor of Applied Economics
Pilar Garcia-Gomez
As of 1 September 2021, research fellow Pilar García-Gómez has been appointed Professor of Applied Economics with focus on Health and Labour at Erasmus School of Economics.
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Anne Opschoor has been awarded an NWO VIDI Grant of € 800,000
Anne Opschoor
Anne Opschoor receives an NWO Vidi grant for his research 'Heterogeneity in extreme risks in high dimensions' Uncertainties like covid19 or Brexit have potentially different effects on countries and industries. Most contemporary models cannot describe such heterogeneity sufficiently well. This research develops new models with more heterogeneity in risk responses and investigates the economic differentiation and robustness of different countries and industries in Europe.
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ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Bastian Ravesteijn and Coen van de Kraats
Bastian Ravesteijn, Coen van de Kraats
Bastian Ravesteijn (Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Coen van de Kraats (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Using big data to give children a promising start in life.” The aim of this project is to personalize prevention and care from the moment a child is conceived throughout childhood since. Currently one in seven children in the Netherlands is deprived of a healthy life start in life. They will bring novel PYHC data into the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) secure microdata environment and work together with our PYHC partners to assess and improve the quality of these data, in order to document how, when, and where the “childhood opportunity gap” opens up in the Netherlands. They will use the infomration that is available during gestation or in early childhood to predict later childhood outcomes, in order to better target existing preventive actions to children and (future) parents.
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ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Titus Galama and Sjoerd van Alten
Sjoerd van Alten, Titus Galama
Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Sjoerd van Alten (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Genetic and environmental determinants of socioeconomic status in the Lifelines cohort.”
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Cars Hommes co-author of prize winning paper
Cars Hommes
Cars Hommes (full professor at UvA) is co-author of the prize winning paper in the paper competition that was set up by the Rebuilding Macroeconomics research initiative. In their paper "Economic Forecasting with an Agent-based Model", Sebastian Poledna, Michael Gregor Miess and Cars Hommes present the first agent-based model (ABM) that can compete with benchmark VAR and DSGE models in out-of-sample forecasting of macro variables. Potential applications of the model include stress-testing and predicting the effects of changes in monetary, fiscal, or other macroeconomic policies. "Rebuilding Macroeconomics" (RM) is a research initiative funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and was founded in 2017. RM is hosted by the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London.
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Simon Mayer wins the 2021 Best Job Market Paper in Finance Theory
Simon Mayer
Simon Mayer (PhD student VU) was awarded the 2021 Best Job Market Paper in Finance Theory. This prize is annually awarded by the Finance Theory Group for the best theory paper on the finance job market. It is a highly prestigious award confirming academic excellence. Many of the winners are from world's top universities in economics and finance.
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NWO Open Competition grant for Eric Bartelsman and Enrico Perotti
Enrico Perotti, Eric Bartelsman
Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam) and Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have been granted NWO funding for their research project 'Understanding the role of IT progress and globalization in economic growth' in the NWO Open Competition - Social Sciences and Humanities. Project: A slowing global economy and steady rise in inequality are threatening social cohesion. The project investigates the role of IT progress and globalization in causing unequal economic growth, and explains puzzling trends in capital and labor markets. It will guide a sustainable policy for economic and financial stability. With the NWO Open Competition-SSH, NWO Social Sciences and Humanities wants to offer researchers the opportunity to carry out research into a subject of their own choosing without any thematic constraints. The funding instrument is intended for senior researchers who may no longer apply for a Veni, Vidi and Vici grant within the Talent Scheme.
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Paper by Anne Gielen featured as chart of the week in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Anne Gielen
The paper ‘Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance' by research fellow Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Gordon B. Dahl (University of California, San Diego, United States) is being featured as chart of the week in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.