Daan Opschoor and Terri van der Zwan, both PhD candidates in Econometrics at Erasmus School of Economics and affiliated with Tinbergen Institute, are winners of the paper competition for PhD candidates organised in the context of the 2023 ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques.
The winning paper of Daan Opschoor (together with Prof. Dick van Dijk) is entitled “Slow expectation-maximization convergence in low-noise dynamic factor models” (link). Terri van der Zwan wins the ECB PhD Paper competition with her paper entitled “Multiple shock impulse response functions”.
The ECB is organising this paper competition for PhD students in order to encourage research in the area of macroeconomic forecasting and to support students working in this field.
Daan and Terri will present their papers at the poster session of the 12th ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques, which will take place at the ECB in Frankfurt am Main on 12-13 June, 2023.
About Daan Opschoor and Terri van der Zwan
The research interests of PhD candidate Daan Opschoor include time series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics and empirical finance, with a special focus on factor models, growth-at-risk and the term structure of interest rates. He is supervised by Prof. Dick van Dijk and Prof. Philip Hans Franses.
The research of PhD candidate Terri van der Zwan focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. Interests include financial econometrics, asset pricing, forecasting, time series analysis and machine learning methods. She is supervised by Prof. Michel van der Wel and Dr Erik Kole.
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For more information, please contact Ronald de Groot, Media & Public Relations Officer at Erasmus School of Economics, rdegroot@ese.eur.nl, +31 6 53 641 846.
For van der Zwan's personal website, click here.
For Opschoor's personal website, click here.