Tinbergen Institute

The Tinbergen Institute is a leading research and graduate education institute for Economics and Business. Established in 1987, the institute is named after [https://tinbergen.nl/professor-jan-tinbergen Jan Tinbergen], a Nobel laureate in economics (1969), and is a collaboration between the Schools of Economics of three prominent Dutch universities: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), the University of Amsterdam (UvA, and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

Tinbergen Institute is widely recognized for its high-quality research and educational programs. It offers two selective research master's program in [https://tinbergen.nl/graduate-program Economics] and [https://businessdatascience.nl/graduate-program Business Data Science], connected to PhD opportunities. The institute attracts top talent from around the world and provides a stimulating environment for aspiring scholars to engage in innovative research. Under certain conditions and subject to approval by the Director of Graduate Studies, individuals not affiliated to Tinbergen Institute or one of its partners are welcome to attend courses in [https://tinbergen.nl/external-participants Economics] and [https://businessdatascience.nl/external-participants Business Data Science].

Tinbergen Institute has a strong international reputation and maintains a network of research fellows, alumni, and external partners who contribute to its academic excellence. The institute's commitment to producing impactful research and nurturing the next generation of economists and finance professionals has made it one of Europe's premier institutions in these fields. Tinbergen Institute has more than 280 research fellows, over 200 PhD and research master students and over 870 PhD alumni. The institute has offices in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Since 2006, Tinbergen Institute has been organizing prestigious annual international conferences in collaboration with its research fellows. These conferences are a cornerstone of the Institute’s commitment to advancing scientific research, attracting leading international scholars in targeted themes. [https://www.tinbergen.nl/events/archive/event%20type=annual%20conference View] past conferences, themes, program committees and presentations.

Since 2016, Tinbergen Institute organizes an annual [https://education.tinbergen.nl/summer-school summer school] with one-week selective and small-scale short courses. The summer school courses are taught to Tinbergen Institute's high standard and are academically rigorous.

Tinbergen Institute is ranked fourth (February 2025) among the World's Top Financial Economics and Finance Departments according to [https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.finecon.html IDEAS/RePEc]. It is ranked 127th among the World's 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 to [https://econtop.uvt.nl/rankinglist.php The Tilburg University Economics School Research Ranking] based on research contributions from 2016-2020, with the VU ranked 39th, followed closely by the EUR which is ranked 42nd and the UvA which is ranked 48th. By 2020 and 2021 [https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2021/RS0501 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 and Princeton University in the US, and Pompeu Fabra University, Oxford University, University College London, and European University Institute in Europe.

Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute are Mars Cramer, Teun Kloek, Jean Paelinck, Herman K. van Dijk, Bernard van Praag and Henk Tijms.

Tinbergen Institute has placed its PhD graduates at leading academic and policy institutions. [https://tinbergen.nl/selected-recent-placements/ Recent PhD graduates] have secured their first jobs as Assistant Professors at Copenhagen Business School, INSEAD, HEC Paris, Norwegian School of Economics, Fudan University, Monash University, Pompeu Fabra University, Rutgers University, University of Tilburg, University of Vienna, Warwick Business School, for example; and as postdocs at e.g., Yale University, Columbia University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Chicago Booth Business School. Sometimes graduates also go to policy institutes or central banks, e.g., Federal Reserve Board, Banks for International Settlement, and Bank of England. Provided by Wikipedia