This year’s jury, which consisted of fellow Joop Hartog, Casper van Ewijk and fellow Frank Kleibergen, presented the prize to Artūras at University of Amsterdam on January 14, 2016. In addition to the award Juodis also received a cheque of €2,500 and a medal.
The Joop Hartog thesis prize was founded founded in 2007 to mark Joop Hartog’s 25 years as a professor of Microeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The award is given for the best PhD thesis at the Amsterdam School of Economics during the past two calendar years.
Artūras is an alumnus of the TI MPhil program (2012, cum laude). His research interests lie in the areas of econometric theory, econometrics, panel data and microeconometrics. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Economics with focus on Econometrics at University of Groningen.