Are Big Tech Companies Running out of Ideas?
Big tech giants like Amazon, Google, Meta and the tech industry as whole have experienced tremendous growth over the past years. However, the recent dip in their stock prices, disappointing results, and challenges they face have led to concerns about...
The Tug-of-War between Regulations and Innovation: Impacts on Economic Growth
Since childhood, my parents always expected me to be in a certain way, to behave in a certain manner and never gave me the opportunity to ask why. This thought might sound a little bit outrageous, but I am wondering whether too many institutions and ...
How can we make the p-value intuitive? - A quest for knowledge and truth
Understanding what a p-value is lies at the heart of our existence. However precise the professor’s description is, no one can actually make sense of it. So, we went on a quest: can we find an intuitive and memorable meaning of this devilled value? W...
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." This quote of Leonardo da Vinci looks universal but is made irrelevant by the invention of AI. Even artists are concerned that their works are worth nothing because it i could be replic...
Chat GPT is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology that is rapidly gaining popularity in the financial industry. This powerful technology is capable of generating vast amounts of data and responding to market events in real-time, making...
"It's such a ****", everyone thought to themselves while studying microeconomics… and they were right. To some extent at least. Although the models might be useful in many ways, they are far from being true, with too many inevitable flaws such as the...
'The campus is characterized by the near-permanent presence of cranes, construction chains and construction traffic,' acknowledges the world's leading manufacturer of chip-making equipment on their website. Residents of the Dutch town in which ASML i...
Daan: Top 5 winter clothes The number one will be the piece of clothing I resort to first, and you'll only see me in number five if polar bears are nearing. Pole position is going to the sweater, because at first it's becoming Sweater Weather! With...
The group stage of the World Cup in Qatar has come to an end. A lot of late goal deciders and unexpected results while the knockout phase has not even started yet. But who is going to win the World Cup? Luckily, some companies are specialised in the ...
I strongly believe that in the case of any econometric student this is the motto of our student life. Why? Well, because any day of our mundane lives revolves around learning the steps of solving a problem, ranging from basic Lagrangian optimizati...
Why is it that the second largest continent in the World is completely ignored? Over the Summer I found myself in an internship placement for an emerging markets fund in London. This fund solely invested in Africa. Something that became very appare...
Hey everyone, the time has come. I present you the Estimator Committee! Questions to be answered: Rich and famous or primary income and unknown? If you were to choose, which Disney character would you be? If you were offered a role i...
Throughout our lives, we encounter a whole spectrum of "smart" people - from those annoyingly smart to ones who are barely interactive. Let us now take a few minutes to wonder what really constitutes those differences and how we can analyse them more...