Prof. dr. Stephan Smeekes
Professor of Econometrics
Department of Quantitative Economics
School of Business and Economics
Maastricht University
Maastricht University | Professor of Econometrics | 2024 - present
Maastricht University | Associate Professor | 2015 - 2024
Maastricht University | Assistant Professor | 2012 - 2015
Maastricht University | Postdoctoral Researcher | 2009 - 2012
Maastricht University | PhD in Economics | 2004 - 2009
Bootstrapping Nonstationary Time Series
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Jean-Pierre Urbain and Prof.dr. Franz C. Palm
Maastricht University | BSc & MSc in Econometrics and Operations Research | 2000 - 2004
- Time Series Econometrics
- Bootstrap and Resampling Methods
- High-Dimensional Statistics
- Climate Econometrics
- Macro-Econometrics
- Panel Data
- Nonparametric Statistics
- Official Statistics
Elected Member | KNAW Young Academy | 2019 - 2024
Excellent Undergraduate Educator Award | Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics | 2017
Vidi grant | NWO | Inference for High-Dimensional Econometric Time Series | 2017 - 2022
Research Talent grant | NWO | Bootstrap Inference for Risk Measures | with E. Beutner, F.C. Palm and A. Heinemann | 2015 - 2019
Veni grant | NWO | Bootstrap Methods for Time-Varying Processes | 2013 - 2016
Excellent Young Scholar Award | Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics | 2012
Christiaan Huygens Science Award | Mathematics, Actuarial Science and Econometrics | 2012
Open Competition post-doc grant | NWO | Bootstrap Methods for Nonstationary Time Series and Panel Data | with J.-P. Urbain and F.C. Palm | 2010 - 2013
Open Competition PhD grant | NWO | Bootstrapping Nonstationary Time Series | with J.-P. Urbain and F.C. Palm | 2006 - 2009
Marie Corillon | Aggregation Schemes for High-Dimensional Time Series | with I. Wilms | 2023 - 2027
Enrico Wegner | Causality in non-linear macro-econometrics | with I. Wilms and L. Lieb | 2023 - 2027
Adam Jassem | Enrichment of economic and marketing models with unstructured text data | with M. Wetzels, N. Basturk and R.J. Almeida | 2018 - 2022
Robert Adamek | Lasso-Based Inference for High-Dimensional Time Series | with I. Wilms | Defended Dec 5, 2022
Luca Margaritella | Inference in High-Dimensional Time Series Models | with A. Hecq | Defended Nov 8, 2021
Caterina Schiavoni | Multivariate State Space Methods for Official Statistics and Climate Modelling | with J. van den Brakel and F.C. Palm | Defended Nov 4, 2021
Yicong Lin | Essays on Nonstationary Nonlinear Models | with E. Beutner | Defended Oct 6, 2021
Etienne Wijler | High-dimensional time series analysis: unit roots, cointegration and forecasting | with A. Hecq and J.-P. Urbain | Defended Jan 14, 2021
Marina Friedrich | Bootstrap inference for environmental trends | with E. Beutner, J.-P. Urbain and F.C. Palm | Defended Dec 10, 2020
Alexander Heinemann | Bootstrap Inference for Risk Measures | with E. Beutner and F.C. Palm | Defended Jun 20, 2019
Hanno Reuvers | Vector Autoregressions: Lag Order Uncertainty and Least Absolute Deviations | with F.C. Palm and J.-P. Urbain | Defended May 14, 2018
Disability Inclusion Group | Maastricht University | 2025 - present
Management Team | Department of Quantitative Economics | 2024 - present
Programme Coordinator | MSc Econometrics and Operations Research | 2020 - present
Board of Admission | MSc Economic and Financial Research | 2017 - present
Board of Admission | MSc Econometrics and Operations Research | 2016 - present
Programme Committee | Netherlands Econometric Study Group (NESG) | 2013 - present
Moonshot Think-Tank | Maastricht University - MUMC+ Collaboration | 2024
Chair of Local Organizing Committee | NESG 2024 conference, Maastricht | 2024
Jury | Christiaan Huygens Science Award | 2024
Scientific Committee | 7th conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (EMCC-VII), Amsterdam | 2023
Assessment Panel Social Sciences | NWO SGW Vici Grants 2022 | 2022 - 2023
Chair of Local Organizing Committee | 2nd Workshop on Dimensionality Reduction and Inference in High-Dimensional Time Series, Maastricht | 2022
Chair of Local Organizing Committee | Workshop on Environmental Time Series Analysis, Maastricht | 2022
Chair of Local Organizing Committee | Online Workshop on Dimensionality Reduction and Inference in High-Dimensional Time Series, Maastricht | 2021
Jury | KNAW Descartes-Huygensprijs | 2020 + 2021
Jury | KNAW Onderwijsprijs (Education Award) | 2020 + 2021
Assessment Panel Economics and Business | NWO SGW Vidi Grants 2019 | 2019 - 2020
Deputy Theme Leader | GSBE Research Theme on Data-Driven Decision Making (D3M), Maastricht University | 2017 - 2020
Local Organizing Committee | European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE), Maastricht | 2017
Local Organizing Committee | 2nd Maastricht Workshop on Advances in Quantitative Economics | 2016
Chair of Local Organizing Committee | NESG 2015 conference, Maastricht | 2015