Erasmus School of Economics: proud supplier of Nobel Prize laureates

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Erasmus School of Economics: proud supplier of Nobel Prize laureates

By: Bjorn Roozenbeek

1969

Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen was a Professor of Mathematical Economics and Economics of Developing Countries at Erasmus School of Economics. He was a renowned economist and one of the founders of econometrics as an academic discipline. Most of all, he was a man whose dedication to poverty alleviation and fighting economic inequality on a global level showed throughout his impressive career.

Jan Tinbergen, along with Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch, received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1969 for their groundbreaking research in the development and application of dynamic quantitative models for analysing economic processes. They were the first to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Erasmus School of Economics offers excellent study programmes and lectures by top researchers ever since 1913. And this shows: in 1969 Jan Tinbergen, at that time Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, won the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Recently, former Erasmus School of Economics student Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Professor Guido Imbens visits his alma mater on a regular base.

Scan the code to watch one of his inspirational lectures! Guido Imbens

Guido Imbens studied Econometrics in Rotterdam from which he graduated in 1983. After that, he continued his research career in the United States. Currently, he is a professor of Economics and professor of Applied Econometrics at the prestigious Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Imbens was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize along with his colleague Joshua Angrist for their research in the mid-1990s into the possibility of so-called natural experiments to explain causal connections. The title of their award-winning research is 'methodological contribution to analysis of causal relationships.’

2021

‘What I learned at Erasmus School of Economics turned out to be of great importance for my later career’

Professor Guido Imbens