What are ETFs?
Year 2021 was a good year for the stock market. The stabilisation of financial markets and a strong institutional backing of governmental recovery plans in the EU and the US helped indexes such as the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones to rise to record highs....
An Eclectic Assortment of Art
Art has played a paramount role in our (pseudo-) society since time immemorial. Whether it is music, dance, poetry, painting or even graffiti, the best works of art succeed in conveying emotions in their rawest and purest forms, a form of escape from...
Traversing Through Master Degrees at ESE
The end of their bachelor degree will have econometric students facing a very wide and complex variety of career options: from getting a job to taking a gap year to studying a language, among many others. One of those options is also, of course, to c...
The holidays are finally here and as the Estimator committee is scattered across the world, we thought it would be nice to detail our plans and different holiday traditions. Floris (Dutch) After the last exam, the lack of sleep kicked in like t...
With exams now finally over and another complete lockdown in place, what better way to kickstart the holiday season than a perfect Christmas movie? The estimator has set out on rating a couple favourites ranging from classic movies to more modern one...
A tumultuous year for Royal Dutch Shell has nearly passed. Following their loss from the lawsuit waged against them by a Dutch environmentalist group, major change is to follow for Shell. Namely, one of the largest shareholders suggested a split up o...
Climate change can sometimes make us feel hopeless. Just think of global warming, rising sea levels, glaciers melting and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. And let us not forget their adverse impacts on human health, food production, wate...
Dr. Guido Imbens, a Dutch American econometrics professor at Stanford University is at the forefront of econometrics research, with his theories being widely used in social and medical sciences. As some of you may already know, he started his econome...
Bond, James Bond. British spy. Cultural icon. License-to-kill for Queen and country. Quick-witted and sharp-dressed womanizer. Alcoholic with exquisite taste and what nots. But, let me ask you this: what makes James Bond the suave secret agent the au...
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...
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...
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...