Marc Nientker will defend his PhD thesis "On the stability of stochastic dynamic systems and their use in econometrics" next Wednesday: vu.nl/en/news-agenda…

Congratulations to Julia Schaumburg who has been awarded the "Engle Prize" by the Journal of Financial Econometrics: academic.oup.com/jfec/pages/Eng…

We congratulate Marc Nientker with successfully defending his PhD thesis “On the stability of stochastic dynamic systems and their use in econometrics”, supervised by Siem Jan Koopman and Francisco Blasques VU School of Business and Economics (inactief) Tinbergen Institute.

René van den Brink and Ines Lindner co-organize the second Dutch Network Economics Day, which takes place at Tinbergen Institute next Thursday. For the program and registration, go to tinbergen.nl/event/2019/10/…

We are present at the Bachelor’s Days that take place today and tomorrow Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) VU School of Business and Economics (inactief). We are looking forward to meet our future students! More information: bachelors.vu.amsterdam/en/contact-ope…

Students of our bachelor programmes in Econometrics and Operations Research and in Econometrics and Operations Research: Econometrics and Data Science assessed the programmes as the best in their field of study! See also sbe.vu.nl/nl/nieuws-agen… (in Dutch)

Yesterday we informed prospective students about our master program in Econometrics and Operations Research VU School of Business and Economics (inactief) and the Tinbergen Institute research master during the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief) Master’s Evening. We hope to welcome many of you next year!

Siem Jan Koopman and @ALucas1081HV are also in 2019 among the first ten in the Top 40 of Economists in The Netherlands. Congratulations! Full article by ESB (in Dutch) can be found at esb.nu/esb/20056809/e…

The Econometrics and Data Science group is proud to be part of the research culture at VU School of Business and Economics (inactief), now ranking 2nd in The Netherlands and 47th worldwide in the 2015-2019 edition of Tilburg University Top 100 Worldwide Economics Schools Research Ranking econtop.uvt.nl/rankinglist.php

Congratulations to Kris Boudt (Kris Boudt), who secured a 2.7M euro consortium grant on pension system research. Kris (Ghent, VUB, VU-EDS) coordinates the grant, bringing together nine professors of three universities across Europe. More information at fwo.be/media/1024027/…

We congratulate Julia Schaumburg with her Vidi grant on "Statistical learning over time" awarded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO Nieuws, read more via VU School of Business and Economics (inactief) at sbe.vu.nl/en/news-agenda…

We are looking for new colleagues to accommodate our growth. Are you enthusiastic about Econometrics and Data Science? Then we invite you to apply for our junior or senior positions. More information at workingat.vu.nl/ad/assistant-p…

Congratulations to our PhD Candidate Mariia Artemova who was awarded Teaching Assistant of the Year at Tinbergen Institute. Read more about it at tinbergen.nl/news/558/gradu…

We are happy that our bachelor program in Econometrics and Operations Research, with the EOR and EDS tracks, again received the "Top Programme" quality mark. Read more at sbe.vu.nl/en/news-agenda…

Congratulations to Siem Jan Koopman and @ALucas1081HV who are again among the first ten in the Top 40 of Economists in The Netherlands. Full article by ESB (in Dutch) at esb.nu/esb/20061623/e…

The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research awarded Marc Nientker an honourable mention regarding the Willem R. van Zwet award. More information in our recent news item at sbe.vu.nl/nl/afdelingen-…

Congratulations to our PhD students Mariia and Quint Wiersma and master students Niels Ota and Arne Platteau for getting the 2nd place at the Econometric Game! What a great achievement! Thanks to Econometric Game for running a successful online edition.

Our minor Applied Econometrics (VU School of Business and Economics (inactief)) concludes with the Practical Case Study course. Students work on real-life cases from consultancy, finance, government, research and more. We are happy with partners as DUO, who welcomed three groups for another successful collaboration.