The Tinbergen Institute is a joint institute for research and education in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

and finance of the

VU University Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

, 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 ...

, and the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humani ...

. The institute was founded in 1987 and is named after the Dutch economist

Jan Tinbergen Jan Tinbergen (; ; 12 April 19039 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis o ...

, a

Nobel prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

-winning professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Tinbergen Institute has over 200 research fellows from the three participating universities, and some 190 PhD students. It is ranked 2nd among the World Top Financial Economics and Finance Departments according t
IDEAS/RePEc
It is ranked 127th among the World Top Economic Institutions according to IDEAS/RePEc. The three universities that jointly operate the Tinbergen Institute all ranked among the top 100 economic schools in the world according t
The Tilburg University Economics School Research Ranking
based on research contribution 2016-2020, with the VU ranked 39th, followed closely by the

EUR The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens ...

which is ranked 42nd and the UvA which is ranked 48th. By 2020 and 202
Shanghai Global Academic Subject Ranking for Economics
EUR is ranked 34-35th, the VU 45th, and the UvA 51-75th in the world. It cooperates with many world class economics and econometrics departments, including

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

in the US, and

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, and

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...

in Europe. Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute are

Mars Cramer Jan Salomon (Mars) Cramer (28 April 1928 – 15 March 2014) was a Dutch economist, Professor of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam, known for his work of empirical econometrics. Biography Born in The Hague, Mars Cramer ...

Teun Kloek Teunis (Teun) Kloek (born 1934) is a Dutch economist and Emeritus Professor of Econometrics at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. His research interests centered on econometric methods and their applications, especially nonparametric and robust ...

, Jean Paelinck, Herman K. van Dijk,

Bernard van Praag Bernard Marinus Siegfried van Praag (Amsterdam, 28 February 1939) is a Dutch economist, and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Amsterdam, noted for researching the measurement of welfare, as well-being and happiness. Biograp ...

and

Henk Tijms Henk Tijms (Beverwijk, April 23, 1944) is a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at the VU University Amsterdam. He studied mathematics in Amsterdam where he graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1972 under sup ...

.Tinbergen Institute 1987-2012
/ref> Tinbergen Institute has placed its PhD graduates at leading academic and policy institutions
Recent PhD graduates
have secured their first jobs as Assistant Professors at

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, HEC Paris,

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, Rutger University,

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, for example; and as postdocs at e.g.,

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, Chicago Booth Business School. Sometimes graduates also go in policy institutes or central banks, e.g.,

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, Banks for International Settlement, and Bank of England.

Founding Board of Directors

(Chairman); Frans van Winden; Peter Nijkamp; Jean-Marie Viaene; Jaap Spronk; Henk Jager

Directors

* 1986–1992 :

* 1992–1998 : Herman K. van Dijk * 1998–2004 :

Coen Teulings Coenraad Nicolaas (Coen) Teulings (born 13 December 1958) is a Dutch economist and distinguished professor at Utrecht University. He was formerly professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cambridge and former Dire ...

* 2004–2008 : Maarten Janssen * 2008-2010 : Herman K. van Dijk * 2010-2016:
Bauke Visser
* 2016-present
Eric Bartelsman

Notable alumni

* Dirk Bezemer (born 1971), economist

Founding Board of Directors

Directors

Notable alumni

References

External links