Welcoming Address to the Participants of the Symposium

Abstract

On behalf of the Econometric Institute I can only second the dean of the Economic Faculty, Professor Siddré, in welcoming all participants to the symposium. Naturally, I am unable to address them individually, hence I have to do it collectively. Still, I wish to make a few exceptions to that rule. First, we are honoured that Professor Tinbergen, pioneer in the fields of mathematical economics, econometrics and development programming will participate in our symposium. Particularly we appreciate his willingness to act as chairman, namely in a session where our second guest of honour, Professor Theil, first director of our Econometric Institute, will expound his views on research in econometrics and the economics of academia.