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21-12-09: The economy improves now, in December 2009 19-09-09: Recession to end soon? 14-07-09: The paper 'Seasonality in Revisions of Macroeconomic Data', jointly written with Philip Hans Franses is accepted for publication in the Journal of Official Statistics. 21-01-09: Beter meten, beter weten 13-03-09: Snellere signalering van recessies helpt gevolgen te beperken 29-01-09: I succesfully defended my PhD Thesis entitled 'Advances in Monitoring the Economy'. It is available for download here. 08-08-08: The paper 'Bayesian Near-Boundary Analysis in Basic Macroeconomic Time Series Models', jointly written with Michiel de Pooter, Francesco Ravazzolo and Herman van Dijk has been accepted for publication in Advances in Econometrics, Volume 23, Bayesian Econometrics, edited by Siddhartha Chib, Gary Koop and Bill Griffiths. 14-04-08: The paper 'Seasonality in Revisions of Macroeconomic Data', jointly written with Philip Hans Franses is available as Econometric Institute Report 2008-09, and has been submitted for publication. 07-02-08: The paper 'Measuring Weekly Consumer Confidence', jointly written with Philip Hans Franses is available as Econometric Institute Report 2008-01, and has been submitted for publication. 14-12-06: Conference EC˛, Rotterdam, Netherlands. 27-10-06: Kick-off meeting MESS, Tilburg, Netherlands. 01-10-06: This academic year, I co-organize the TI Rotterdam PhD Lunch seminars, together with Bram van Dijk. 24-08-06: Conference EEA-ESEM 2006, Vienna, Austria. 09-06-06: Conference '50 years of Econometrics', Econometric Institute, Erasmus University. 11-05-06: The paper 'Do the Leading Indicators Lead Peaks More Than Troughs?' has been accepted for presentation at the EEA-ESEM 2006 conference in Vienna. 30-03-06: 'Wie wint het WK?' 21-03-06: The paper 'Gibbs sampling in econometric practice?', jointly written with Michiel de Pooter and Herman van Dijk is available as Econometric Institute Report 2006-13, and has been submitted for publication. 25-08-05: Econometric Society World Congres 2005, London. 01-07-05: In 2006, the Econometric Institute will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. A website has been launched at http://www.ei50.org to promote the Institute's special celebration activities. 09-07-04: The paper 'Learning the Shape of the Likelihood of Typical Econometric Models using Gibbs Sampling', jointly written with Michiel de Pooter and Herman van Dijk, has been presented by Michiel on the 10th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, July 8-10, 2004, University of Amsterdam. 23-06-04: Erasmus University Rotterdam hosts the INFORMS Marketing Science Conference from June 23-27, 2004. 17-05-04: Official start of my PhD-project entitled 'Analyzing Panels of Time Series' at the Tinbergen Institute and Econometric Institute under supervision of Philip Hans Franses. 13-05-04: Today I submitted my Master's thesis entitled 'Modelling Long-run Economic Growth in Industrialized Nations: Exploiting Cross-Country Similarities'. The thesis is written under supervision of Herman van Dijk and Richard Paap. I will defend the thesis on June 10th. > Download chapters (0.98 MB, 69 pg.) and/or appendices (3.35 MB, 31 pg.). |