Tilburg School of Economics and Management launches Koopmans seminar series
The Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM) is launching the Koopmans seminar series, a faculty-wide series spanning a range of disciplines. The Koopmans seminars will host distinguished senior scholars from across the world, who have made substantial contributions to the fields of economics and finance. Everyone is welcome to join.
With a fall and a spring edition, the Koopmans seminar will be held twice per year on the Tilburg University campus. The seminars are open to all, registration is not necessary.
First editions to host Richard Blundell and Joshua Angrist
The first Koopmans seminar will take place on 1 November 2023, with Richard Blundell as the seminar's invited speaker. His talk is titled "Wage progression, human capital and labour market inequality." Sir Richard Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and a co-director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has been awarded the Frisch Medal for his work on estimating labor supply responses using tax reforms, and the Nemmers Prize in Economics for his contributions to labor economics, public finance and applied econometrics.
The spring edition, which will be held on 27 March 2024, will host Joshua Angrist. Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a research associate at the NBER. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021, together with Guido Imbens, "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships." He also won the Eugene Fama Prize and the John von Neumann Award.
Celebrating contributions to the field
The Koopmans seminar series is a joint initiative by the Economics department, the department of Econometrics & Operations Research and the Finance department of TiSEM. “We're excited to launch the Koopmans seminar as an event that will bring on campus distinguished academics who work on the outermost frontier of economics, broadly defined,” says Alexandros Theloudis, assistant professor at the Econometrics & OR department and one of the organizers of the Koopmans seminar series.
“Tilburg has been a top economics school in Europe for decades, but we lacked a slightly bigger ceremonial event in which we celebrate the latest biggest contributions in our discipline. This is what this seminar is about, and there is no better name than Koopmans, in honor of Tjalling Koopmans who won the Economics Nobel prize for his work on the optimal allocation of resources more than half a century ago.”