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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 influenc...
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 ...
Jan Tinbergen, the founding father of econometrics Jan Tinbergen is undoubtedly a name we encounter a lot at EUR. Besides having a building and in...
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 tragedi...
With the ESE Faculty Council elections being held until Tuesday, the future of Erasmus School of Economics is in your hands! But with twelve eligible ...
Four weeks ago, student council members Robbert Rog and Younes Assou submitted an open letter to the Executive Board asking the board members to recon...
Last week The Estimator interviewed Jan Paternotte, member of the House of Representatives of The Netherlands (de Tweede Kamer). Specialising in Educa...
With the exams only a week away, students are desperately trying to find a quiet place to study. This year however, libraries are closed and there are...
The pandemic may have resulted in a lot of students being unable to go on exchange, especially outside of the EU. However fourth year BSc2 student Sea...
Teacher Talk is back, and this time we talk to Professor Julian Emami-Namini, lecturer for the double degree bachelor course International Economics a...
Covid-19 has altered the workplace significantly, and possibly in a permanent manner. While the world’s attention has been fixated on the medical and ...
In our latest article we discussed some tips for beginners in stock investment, but what is it like to do that for a living? We talked to Alain Faddeg...
Here’s a brief picture: you’re sitting at home during quarantine, wondering about quick and easy ways to make some small-time money. You don’t want th...
In this edition of Estimator, we interview Peter, a Quantitative Finance student at ESE, and an incoming University of Edinburgh student. We also inte...
Thinking of doing a minor in your final bachelor year? With the minor application deadline coming soon, you might be in a bit of a pickle choosing the...
In this edition of Teacher talk, we decided to talk to Assistant Professor Ana Figueiredo, who teaches Macroeconomics to first-year Bachelor students....
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Hey y’all! Who does not know Michael Jordan? I’m pretty sure that you would know who he is. However, one thing that you might not know is that he was...
This year the exciting fourth edition of the yearly FAECTOR Excellence Programme took place. From January till June, a small selected group of highly ...
The FAECTOR Research Project is one of FAECTOR’s biggest educational projects: it enables a group of students to do an internship during the minor per...
Every year a new group of econometricians come into EUR, and, inevitably, a few of those econometricians leave EUR. Since the prospects of success mig...
Weather in the Netherlands can be confusing. A normal day can look like this: freezingly cold and windy in the morning, sunny and warm in the afternoo...
Teacher Talk is back! We have a new episode with Dr Ilker Birbil, teacher of Non-Linear Optimisation (NLO) at the ESE. He came to Rotterdam last Febru...
For some students, it is only the first year that is gradually coming to its end. However, others are nearly done with their bachelor and are on the v...
The Excellence Programme is an initiative of FAECTOR to gather highly motivated and well-performing students and give them multiple perspectives on an...
Studying abroad, something that many people aspire to do sometime during their studies. Experiencing different cultures, meeting new possible friends ...
"Fashion- and technology-forward but also deeply traditional, this dynamic city mashes up temples, palaces, cutting-edge design and mountain trails, a...
For some students, it is only the first year that is graduallycoming to its end. However, others are nearly done with their bachelors and are on the v...
FAECTOR engages: how econometrics students help society FAECTOR has started to help non-profit and sport organisations with their data analysis. The...
The FAECTOR Research Project is the most exciting international study trip that has been a longstanding event organised by the FAECTOR Research Projec...