The World Championship of Econometrics!

Nikki Wesselius, a member of the Organizing Committee for the Econometric Game, 2015, has asked me to provide readers with information about this year's event. I'm delighted to do so,

The Econometric Game (AKA "The World Championship of Econometrics") is an exciting annual competition for econometrics students that I've had posts about in the past. (see here, here, here, and here.)

The 2015 EG begins in just a week from now, and here is the program:

Tuesday, March 31st 2015

09:00 - 09:30 Registration at ‘De Brug’ (The Bridge) at the REC University of Amsterdam

09:30 - 11:45 Opening at REC C1.04 the UvA

09:30 - 09:45 Wibrand de Reij (chairman EG committee)

09:45 - 10:00 Han van Dissel (dean UvA Faculty of Economics and Business)

10:00 - 10:25 EY J.P. Balkenende (former minister-president of the Netherlands)

10:25 - 10:40 Coffee and tea break

10:40 - 11:05 ORTEC Gerrit Timmer

11:05 - 11:45 Introduction to the case by the Casemakers

11:45 - 12:30 Lunch at CREA at the REC University of Amsterdam

13:00 - 18:00 Working on the Case at the Zuiderkerk

13:00 - 13:45 Introduction to the Case

18:30 - 21:00 Dinner at Chicanos

Wednesday, April 1st 2015

09:00 - 18:30 Working on the Case at the Zuiderkerk

09:00 - 09:15 Speech of the casemaker at the Zuiderkerk

12:00 - 13:00 Working lunch

19:00 - 21:30 Dinner at Brasserie Harkema

21:30 - 03:00 Drinks at Heeren van de Amstel (?)

21:30 - 22:00 Speech of Luke Disney

22:00 - 22:15 Announcement of the finalists

Thursday, April 2nd 2015

Finalists

08:30 - 17:00 Working on the Case at the Zuiderkerk

8:30 - 08:45 Speech of the casemaker at the Zuiderkerk

11:30 - 12:30 Working lunch

Non-finalists

11:00 - 14:00 Typical Dutch day

All Teams

18:00 - 19:00 Presentations of the finalists at de Bazel

19:00 - 21:30 Dinner at Calf & Bloom

21:30 - 03:00 Award ceremony and closing party at Calf & Bloom

I'll be posting daily while the Game is in progress, providing up-to-date information about what is happening for those of you who won't be in attendance.

I'm told that the team from the University of Copenhagen is quietly confident of pulling it off again this year, but we'll have to wait and see. Good luck to all of the participants.

Don't touch that dial!

© 2015, David E. Giles