The Tinbergen Institute, named after the University's late professor
Jan Tinbergen, Nobel Prize Laureate in economics [1973], was
established in 1986. Jan Tinbergen received the highest royal
honour of H.M. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. For almost forty
years he was professor of Statistics and Higher Mathematics, later
professor of Economic Development. As an economic adviser he served
many countries and organisations. His most famous work in the
shipping sector is his research on shipbuilding cycles in the
early 1930s.
Tjalling
Koopmans was a student of Professor Tinbergen. Originally
trained as a theoretical physicist, Koopmans later turned to the
application of economics of complex statistical techniques; he
shared the Nobel prize in economic sciences in 1975 for his work
in this area. Koopmans developed an analytical method known as
linear programming or activity analysis that falls under the general
heading of operations research. His contribution to world shipping
was his research on tanker freight rates.
Koopmans later became the director of Research of the Cowles
Commission at the University of Chicago, at the time this Commission
invented and developed nearly all the principles and theories
of modern finance. Nearly all the US winners of the Nobel Prize
in economic sciences have spent time at this Commission.
The objective of the Tinbergen Institute is to provide advanced
training, at Ph.D. level, in economics and econometrics, to young
and gifted researchers from the Netherlands and abroad. The Institute
is a joint postgraduate Research School of the Faculties of Economics
of EUR and the two universities of Amsterdam. Currently, there
are 120 Ph.D. researchers working on their theses and attending
postgraduate courses on the fundamentals of economic theory, research
methods and specialized subjects in economics. Ongoing or recently
completed research PhDs include:
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The Value of a Statistical Life in Road Safety;
Stated Preference Methodologies and Empirical Estimates for
the Netherlands.
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Stochastic Programming Approaches for Strategic
Logistics Problems.
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The Market for Passenger Transport by Train.
An Empirical Analysis
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Optimization of container Handling Systems.
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Airport economics and policy: efficiency, competition,
and interaction with airlines.
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Market Structure and Environmental Costs: A
Welfare Analysis of European Air Transport Reform.
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Maintenance optimisation techniques for the
preservation of highways.
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Demand Differentiation in Inventory Systems.
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Development and Acquisition of Technology in
Rural Collective Industries - The Case of China's Hinterland.
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Models and Techniques for Integrating Vehicle
and Crew Scheduling.
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Information and pricing in road transport: theoretical
and applied models.
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Two case studies on manpower planning in aviation.
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Residential travel behaviour of the elderly.
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Multi-attribute value functions for environmental
management.
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Towards the borderless mainport Rotterdam.
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Economic efficiency and social feasibility in
the regulation of road transport externalities.
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Service development in less developed countries.
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Information and pricing in road transport.
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Commuting and relocation of jobs and residencies.
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International commodity-related environmental
agreements.
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Market structure and Environmental costs: A
welfare analysis of European Air Transport Reform.
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Economics of supply chain management.
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Logistics modelling.
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Chain integration.
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Design and analysis of reverse distribution
networks.
Research and Development of operation concepts for automated
container transport, transhipment and storage systems.
The economics of traffic congestion and congestion price in complex
systems.
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