Background information of University/location
Erasmus University Rotterdam’s history goes back to 1913, when the Netherlands School of Commerce was founded through a private initiative with broad support from the Rotterdam business community. This school is nowadays known as Erasmus School of Economics and forms, together with 7 other schools, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The university gained worldwide fame with its education and research in the fields of economics and econometrics and with its renowned professors, such as Johannes Witteveen, who became the first Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Henri Theil, and Jan Tinbergen, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969. One of the 2021 Nobel laureate in economics Guido Imbens studied econometrics in Rotterdam.
Information on how to reach the conference venue
Rotterdam is easy to reach by train, car, bus, plane, or boat. Participants are encouraged to check out train connections, as the city is in many cases surprisingly easy to reach by (international) trains. Rotterdam has its own airport (Rotterdam The Hague Airport, RTHA) with direct flights to several large cities including Rome, Barcelona, London, and Istanbul. Moreover, Schiphol Airport Amsterdam is just a 27 minutes train ride.
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