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From Preference to Choice: The Economic Theory of Decision-making...
Faculty: Lia van Wesenbeeck and David Jackson
Applied Public Policy Evaluation (CONFIRMED)
Faculty: Bas van der Klaauw and Pierre Koning
Content Strategy and Creator Growth: The Role of Secondary Channels...
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Let’s agree to disagree: Mutual fund holdings-based disagreement...
Marton Ligeti
Asymmetric Valuations in Charity Auctions
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Facilities Allocation: A Study of Stroke Centers in Vietnam
Thu Trang Luu , , Thu Trang Luu
Economics of Blockchain and Digital Currencies (CONFIRMED)
Faculty: Maarten van Oordt
Sustainable Finance (CONFIRMED)
Faculty: Remco Zwinkels, Rex Wang and Marco Ceccarelli
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Gender in Society (CANCELLED)
Faculty: Klarita Gërxhani and Katharina Brütt
Marketing Research with Purpose (CANCELLED)
Faculty: Peeter Verlegh
Foundations of Machine Learning with Applications in Python (CONFIRMED)
Faculty: Ronald de Vlaming and Janneke van Brummelen
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. The program ties the foundations of data science directly to different business fields: management science, operations analytics, quantitative finance and accounting.