• Pour Decisions For A Good Time: How To Justify Your Night Out

    • Jasper van Wijk
    Feb 07, 2025

    We have all heard of the many negative health effects of alcohol consumption: permanent liver damage, the death of neurons, increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, the whole enchilada. On the other hand, we’re students, so we will not  let it stan...

  • Is Faster Always Better: Examining Efficiency, Opportunity, and Health impacts in Food Delivery Industry

    • Gérard van Spaendonck
    Jan 31, 2025Career

    How do we make something more efficient? This is the fundamental question that every econometrician seeks to answer. Efficiency lies at the core of econometrics, where the goal is to create optimized solutions that maximize performance while minimizi...

  • Compliance Risk with Basel III: A Framework for Financial Stability

    • Zhi Yu Yap
    Jan 24, 2025Educational

    When people hear the city “Basel,” located in Switzerland, they often think of the Swiss football club FC Basel. Yet Basel also hosts one of the most influential institutions in global finance: Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Acting as a ke...

  • Unfortunate Ingenuity of Fraudulent Schemes: Pig Butchering Scam

    • Aaraav Ovalekar
    Jan 17, 2025News

    The human mind is a cradle for life changing inventions. Being blessed with the attributes of critical and creative thinking, mankind has managed to revolutionize the world. However, there are always two sides to a story and this blessing of an intel...

  • Your Chance to Join: New FAECTOR Lustrum Committee

    • Floris Kloosterman
    Dec 13, 2024Association

    We sat down with Lotte, FAECTOR’s 59th Marketing & Innovation Officer, to talk about her role and the upcoming 12th Lustrum celebrations, as well as the soon-to-be-formed Lustrum Committee. From designing Instagram posts to supervising committees, Lo...

  • Data-Driven Care: How Econometric Models Revolutionised Hospital Logistics

    • Gérard van Spaendonck
    Dec 06, 2024Career

    What if I told you that Econometrics can save lives? It is common knowledge that within medicine, every second can make the difference between life or death. To any econometrician, this should generate the question: How do we minimise time spent with...

  • Applications of Fibonacci Series: From Nature to Stock Market

    • Aaraav Ovalekar
    Nov 29, 2024Educational

    “How is an art piece related to a perfect face?” and “how is the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower related to the stock market?” These questions seem unusual but explain why some seemingly unrelated things in nature and life are connected. A simple...