• Sun’s Out, Fun’s In: How to Thrive as a Human Plant

    • Jasper van Wijk
    Mar 28, 2025

    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...

  • Profit vs. Planet: Optimization in ESG Risk Management

    • Zhi Yu Yap
    Mar 21, 2025Educational

    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...

  • A Milligram of Milk Powder: Dutch Dairy Corruption

    • Floris Kloosterman
    Feb 14, 2025Educational

    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?”....

  • 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...