Tinbergen Institute
The Tinbergen Institute is founded in 1987 and named after Professor Jan Tinbergen, Dutch Nobel Prize laureate in economics in 1969.
The Tinbergen Institute is the graduate school and research institute in economics of Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam. More than 100 research fellows and approximately 120 MPhil and PhD students participate in the institute's research programme and educational programme. The Tinbergen Institute offers a two year MPhil programme in economics that is part of a five-year PhD track. International researchers visit the Tinbergen Institute to give seminars and workshops, or to meet the research fellows of the institute.
The Research Institute
The Research Institute stimulates fundamental and applied economic research within the four themes of the research programme, and brings together researchers to stimulate discussion on theories, methodologies and empirical results.
Research fellows appointed by the board of the Institute are at the centre of the activities. Research fellows are faculty members with an excellent track record in economic research, with highly regarded publications in international economic journals. The fellows play an active role within the institute in terms of organising research activities, teaching graduate courses and supervising PhD students.
To stimulate discussion and interaction between fellows, PhD students and visitors, the institute organises several seminar series on a wide variety of economic topics. There are also frequent symposia and workshops attended and given by national and international economic experts. For dissemination of the research results, and to enhance discussion with colleagues, Tinbergen Institute pre-publishes the research results in a discussion paper series.
International scholars visit the institute to collaborate with fellows and to discuss their work, while researchers may visit the institute on a short-term basis or as post-doctoral fellows on a long-term basis.
The Graduate School
The Tinbergen Institute offers a graduate programme consisting of two years of intensive graduate coursework in the institute's Master of Philosophy in Economics programme (MPhil) and three years of PhD thesis research.
The MPhil programme is a research master in economics, econometrics, and finance, and is an excellent preparation for PhD thesis research in these fields. The MPhil programme is taught by the best researchers of the three economics departments participating in the institute and by internationally renowned guest lecturers. Students are carefully selected from a large international pool of applicants. Each year at most 30 students are admitted and thorough selection is part of the admission procedure. The MPhil programme has been accredited by the Dutch and Flemish Accreditation Organisation for higher education (NVAO) and leads to a Master of Philosophy in Economics degree.
The PhD programme takes three years and leads to a PhD degree. These three years are primarily spent on writing research papers for the PhD thesis and on participation in international conferences, workshops, and seminars.
Currently, about 120 students are enrolled in our graduate programme. Roughly half of all students come from abroad; students have come from Europe, Asia, North-America, South- America, and Africa.
Details can be found in the graduate programme brochure.
More information
See: http://www.tinbergen.nl/
