Hugo Albert Keuzenkamp (born 30 May 1961) is a Dutch

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

, administrator, and Professor of Insurance Studies at Faculty of Economics and Business of the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

Biography

Born in

Rijswijk Rijswijk (), formerly known as Ryswick ( ) in English, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Its population was in , and it has an area of , of which is water. The municipality also includes th ...

, Keuzenkamp received his Doctoral (BA + MA) in Economics at the

in 1986, his MA in Economics at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in 1987. He started his PhD research at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1987, which he completed at the

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in 1994, received his PhD with a thesis entitled "Probability, econometrics and truth: a treatise on the foundations of econometric inference". During his studies Keuzenkamp was research assistant from 1984 to 1986 for

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; in 1987 for

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at the Centre for Labour Economics of the London School of Economics; in 1987 for Neil de Marchi at the Department of Economics of the Duke University; and in 1988 for

at Harvard University. Back in the Netherlands at the Tilburg University he became Assistant Professor in 1990, and Associate Professor in 1999. In Amsterdam from 2000 to 2004 he was director of

as successor of

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. In 2004 was appointed part-time Professor at Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Amsterdam."CV Hugo Keuzenkamp" a
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2007. In 2004 Keuzenkamp was also appointed Director of Healthcare Insurance at the

Delta Lloyd Group Delta Lloyd Group was a Dutch insurer with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. It consisted of Delta Lloyd, OHRA, ABN AMRO Verzekeringen and a few minor banks. The company was the sixth-largest insurer in the Netherlands, with a ...

. In 2007 he became board member at the Westfries Gasthuis hospital in

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. Beside his numerous administrative activities Keuzenkamp was ghostwriter for Wim Kok in 1993, columnist for

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and De Financiële Telegraaf, and Editor-in-chief for the Economisch Statistische Berichten. In 1987 he was awarded the

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and the Bronfenbrenner Fellowship of Duke University

Publications

Keuzenkamp authored and co-authored over 35 publications in the field of economics and organizational theory.List of publications
at National Library of the Netherlands. Books, a selection: * 1987. ''Probability, econometrics and truth: a treatise on the foundations of econometric inference''. Proefschrift Katholieke Universiteit Brabant Tilburg. * 2000. ''Probability, econometrics and truth: the methodology of econometrics''. Cambridge University Press. * 2001. ''Simplicity, inference and modelling: Keeping it sophisticatedly simple''. With Arnold Zellner and Michael McAleer, eds. Cambridge University Press. Articles, a selection: * Keuzenkamp, Hugo A. "A precursor to Muth: Tinbergen's 1932 model of rational expectations." The Economic Journal 101.408 (1991): 1245-1253. * Keuzenkamp, Hugo A., and Michael McAleer. "Simplicity, scientific inference and econometric modelling." The Economic Journal (1995): 1-21. * Keuzenkamp, Hugo A., and Jan R. Magnus.
On tests and significance in econometrics
" Journal of Econometrics 67.1 (1995): 5-24. * Keuzenkamp, Hugo A., and Anton P. Barten. "Rejection without falsification on the history of testing the homogeneity condition in the theory of consumer demand." Journal of Econometrics 67.1 (1995): 103-127.

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