In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, two young statisticians have won the ISI Jan Tinbergen best paper Award. Erasmus School of Economics sponsors the 2019 ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards in celebration of the Jan Tinbergen Year. It is fifty years ago that the famous Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen was awarded the first Nobel prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, jointly with Ragnar Frisch.
On Friday 23 August 2019, during a festive ceremony at the world congress of the International Statistical Institute, econometrician and former dean Prof. Philip Hans Franses handed out the prizes to Jetrei Benito (Philippines) and Edvira Malliedje Fokam (Côte d’Ivoire). Jetrei Benito obtained the first Prize in Division A with his paper ‘Modeling the Financial Market Indicators with Semiparametric Volatility Model with Varying Frequency’. In Division B Edvira Malliedje Fokam ended up first with her paper ‘Intra household resource allocation and gender relation in Côte d’Ivoire: a way for facing non inclusive growth situation’.
ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards
The ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards are named after the famous Dutch econometrician and Nobel Prize winner, and are endorsed by the Dutch ‘Stichting Internationaal Statistisch Studiefonds’ (International Statistical Study Fund Foundation). The aim of the Foundation is to offer assistance to developing countries in the statistical domain. The intention of the ISI Jan Tinbergen awards is to meet the Foundation’s aim and two of the fundamental objectives of the ISI, namely defining and instituting constructive roles in supporting the development of young statisticians and in building statistical capacity in developing countries.
Jan Tinbergen was Professor of Statistics, mathematical economics and econometrics at the Netherlands School of Economics, the forerunner of the present-day Erasmus School of Economics