Upcoming events
Relieving Financial Distress Increases Voter Turnout: Evidence...
Ben McCartney (University of Virginia, United States)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
Inference in Time-Varying SVARs Identified with Sign Restrictions...
Jonas Arias (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, United States)
- Erasmus Econometric Institute Series
Identifying the Portfolio Balance Mechanism
Jefferson Duarte (Rice University, United States)
- Erasmus Econometric Institute Series
National Economics Olympiad (NEO)
A Global Solution Method for HACT Models with Aggregate Risk
Niklas Bonnmann
- PhD Seminars
Does Stricter Disability Screening Lead to Improved Targeting...
Chiara Campana
- PhD Seminars
Measuring the Impact of Remote Work on Firm Performance Using...
Ben Matthies (University of Notre Dam, United States)
- Erasmus Finance Seminars
From Explainable AI to Generative Modeling with Tree-Based Machine...
Marvin N. Wright (Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology and University of Bremen, Germany)
- Erasmus Econometric Institute Series
Board Effectiveness and Internalization Benefits: Theory and...
Xavier Martin (Tilburg University)
- ABRI Seminar (Vrije Universiteit)
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
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.