The Department of Economics team has won this year’s edition of the Econometric Game.
The team members are Piero Bertino (captain), Javier Fuertes, Gabriele Gazzei, and Edward David Roth. Second place was awarded to Zurich and third place to Toronto. In total, 30 universities from around the world participated.
This year’s problem involved predicting daily electricity prices using data from Denmark. Our team addressed the tasks using functional data analysis techniques under extremely tight time constraints. They demonstrated an excellent command of state-of-the-art econometric methods, remarkable creativity in applying the most appropriate approaches to the problem at hand, strong programming skills, efficiency in handling large datasets, and outstanding oral and written communication abilities.
This competition, held annually in Amsterdam, brings together teams from a selection of international universities to solve an econometrics case study, which is subsequently evaluated by a jury of independent and highly qualified professors.
The UC3M Department of Economics has won the competition four times since 2007 (the Department’s first year of participation).



