Frank Kleibergen elected Fellow of the Econometric Society
With a worldwide membership, the Econometric Society is the most prestigious society in the field of economics. Econometric Society fellows must have published original contributions to economic theory or to statistical, mathematical, or accounting analyses that bear on problems in economics.
Research Fellow Frank Kleibergen (University of Amsterdam) was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society on October 8, 2025. A total of twenty-five new Fellows have been announced this year. They are then a Fellow for life.
Frank is Professor of Econometrics at the Amsterdam School of Economics. Between 2003-2015 he was Professor of Economics at Brown University, United States. He holds a PhD in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and his PhD thesis is number 77 in the Tinbergen Institute sequence.
Frank is an expert in econometrics. His research focuses on identification robust methods with applications to micro-econometrics, panel data, asset pricing and macro monetary models such as the New-Keynesian Phillips curve.
Founded in 1930, the Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. The main activities of the Society are publication of the journals Econometrica, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics, publication of a research Monograph Series, organization annually of scientific meetings in six regions of the world, and a World Congress once every five years.
Many of the Econometric Society's Fellows have presented at Tinbergen Institute's seminar series, Annual Lecture series, and Annual Conference. Since 1931, only 1,229 total fellows have been elected. The 25 new fellows bring this number to 1,254 elected. To date, 86 Econometric Society Fellows have won the Nobel Prize in Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel).
Other affiliated Fellows are Tinbergen Institute Research Fellow Peter Wakker (Erasmus University Rotterdam), he was elected 2003, PhD Alumni Andrea Galeotti (London Business School) and Francesco Lippi (LUISS University), both elected in 2024, and Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University), who was elected 2021. Guido W. Imbens (Stanford University), Nobel Prize laureate, member of Tinbergen Insitute's advisory Board, was elected 2001. Imbens studied at Erasmus University in the early eighties and finished his studies in the United Kingdom and Brown University, United States.