Takeaways of The ECD
At the start of November, the Econometric Career Days took place organised by Faector. Some of our writers participated in it. In this article you will find their impressions of a selection of ECD events. Grand opening After a warm welcome of the...
A Crash Course on Sinterklaas
Every year Sinterklaas and his ‘Pieten’ arrive in November at a harbor with the ‘pakjesboot’ (his Steamboat) all the way from Spain and head off on his birthday, December 5th. What was a classic celebration cherished by most of us, especially while g...
A Wind-Up of COP26
Now that the COP has ended, we can evaluate the developments that took place during the event. As we have come to expect in international conferences and summits, it is hard to tell if anything good has actually come out of it. Let us see what exactl...
Sportonometrics - A Series of Statistical Analysis on Sports Do you know those people who first praise a player of their favorite team but only after a disappointing result yell that their goldfish could do better? Or a fellow student who claims t...
What a month it has been for Facebook, or shall we say Meta at this point. Starting with a network shut down, which made all the social media influencers seriously consider looking for a job, following with detrimental leaked documents proving that a...
A new academic year means lots of new faces at the Faector office. But compared to the last few years where you got to know the committee members better, we wanted to know what you can expect from them this year. Oh, and to add onto the eternal rival...
Climate change is a challenge that is constantly hanging over everyone’s head. No matter how much we try to avoid thinking about it, one cannot avoid being part of the conversation, the solution, or the problem. Actually, most people pass through all...
Heaps of carved pumpkins, spooky costume parties, and trick-or-treating - yes, it is that time of the year again. While Halloween isn’t very commonly celebrated in the Netherlands, for many of us it’s one of the most memorable nights of partying and ...
Jan Tinbergen, the founding father of econometrics Jan Tinbergen is undoubtedly a name we encounter a lot at EUR. Besides having a building and institute named after him, he is also one of the few Nobel laureates of our university. But most inte...
Hey! New here? We know exactly what it feels like. Not sure how anything works at uni while moving to a new city where you have to find your way all around? Yup, been there. In this article we will guide you through the most awkward stages of bei...
Last year, the Estimator covered the beginning of Covid-19, and our experiences in quarantine. More than a year later, the pandemic is still around and cases are still rising, though we now have vaccines and quarantine restrictions imposed in countri...
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has not only been a major threat to global health, but also a large-scale socioeconomic disaster. Beyond the immediate tragedies of death and disease, the pandemic had some other negative implications, gravely affecting, for i...
The Netherlands may be a small country, but it's definitely not lacking in tourist attractions. While places such as the Rijksmuseum, Kinderdijk, and Efteling are popular and heavily frequented by visitors, how many of you have heard of Giethoorn or ...