Econometrics in Gaming: Personal Gameplay to Professional Career
Every gamer is an intuitive economist. Whether you are planning your skill tree in an RPG, deciding which item to buy in League of Legends, or optimizing resource use in Minecraft, you are constantly making decisions to maximize your output with limi...
50% Problem: Modeling U.S.–EU Trade Tensions
What happens when the world’s strongest trade relationship is suddenly thrown into uncertainty? A prevalent topic within recent media that greatly affects the world economy has been Tariffs, specifically those implemented under the Trump administrati...
From Brain Rot to Bliss: Escaping Addictive Realms of Social Media
Have you ever glanced at your phone to check the weather and inadvertently ended up scrolling on social media? Have you ever started studying or working and unknowingly ended up watching TikToks? If your answer to either of these questions is yes, th...
Have you ever been in a discussion with someone where you feel like nothing is actually moving? It seems as though your argument consists of simply repeating yourself while the other person seems to be talking past you. How do you get out, or prefera...
Have you had difficulty finding housing as a student in Rotterdam? Chances are that part of this is the result of high prices. It is common knowledge that the increasing demand for housing alongside the limited supply in recent years have driven up p...
On February 19th 2025, the U.S. president Donald Trump first referred to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator”. This was followed by the U.S. government coercing Zelensky to sign the mineral deal, which would give the US governm...
To someone unbeknownst of econometrics it is just a combination of mathematics and economics. To many individuals a sport is just a game. These descriptions are vaguely accurate but in truth consist of intricate details which shape their importance ...
If you are anything like me, your mood instantly lifts once the sun is out. Lately, there have been more sunny days, and I started realising I missed this. Of course, I instantly spiraled into a whirlwind of ideas for fun activities I could do now th...
In recent years, investors are beginning to prioritize environmental issues, social issues, and corporate governance when making investment decisions, and such investing principles are often abbreviated to ESG. Combined with the study of econometrics...
Imagine you’re going to the store to buy your favourite soft drink “Dubbel Friss”, you notice on the packaging that it “contains a bit of dairy”. You might gloss over it at the time but whether you ask it or not, the question remains: “Why is that?”....