to the Econometric Games in Amsterdam. This is a 3 day competition among
30 Universities; there is a preliminary round to select 10 finalists and then a
second round to determine the three prize winners. The topic this year was
Longevity and Longevity Risk. Details of this year's competition are available
here http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/EGames/Case1.pdf and
here http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/EGames/Case2.pdf
Our team: Nicolas Bottan, Cesare Buiatti, Julia Gonzalez and Jiaying Gu
placed second in this competition outperforming perennial favorites like
Copenhagen, Aarhus, Amsterdam, Carlos III as well as Oxford, Cambridge
and Harvard. Our team deserves a ticker tape parade when they return
this weekend, unfortunately ticker tape is scarce these days. So we will have
a celebration of their remarkable achievement on April 17th as part of the
Fourth Annual Boneyard Conference of Econometrics. Details here:
http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/seminar/Boneyard15.pdf
