Choconomics

My wife enjoys travelling with me to conferences, so I guess I'll be in Belgium next September for this one!

Professor of Official Statistics

A recent post, titled Free Data!, drew comments about some aspects of the availability and cost of official data in Canada. I was therefore intrigued to come across a recent advertisement for the position of Professor of Official Statistics, at an Australian University.

Precision Competition

In a recent post I raised the point about the spurious degree of precision that is often encountered with reported regression results. So, here's a challenge for you - how many decimal places (or maybe significant digits) are appropriate when reporting OLS regression results?

Webinar With Robert F. Engle

It's not every day that you can get to see a presentation by a Nobel laureate econometrician for free, and without leaving home.

Free Data!

Freedom to information is what all econometricians hope for - that is, readily accessible and reliable data that you don't have to pay for.

Terribly Simple, But Simply Terrible

Last Saturday there was a general election in New Zealand, where I've been visiting for the past couple of weeks. In conjunction with this election there was also a referendum on the future of the voting system that they use. For about 17 years now they have used a "Mixed Member Proportional" (MMP) system.

Spurious Precision

I'm currently in New Zealand - hence the smaller number of posts recently - and I came across the following example of a "best before" date on the lid of a jar of marmalade:

Trends in Econometrics

In an earlier post I mentioned the online conference that was organized by Wiley and The Journal of Economic Surveys over the past few days.

Here is the link to David Hendry's keynote lecture, "Trends in Econometrics", together with organized commentaries from Neil Ericsson and Katerina Juselius.

Great stuff! We need more of this.

© 2011, David E. Giles

Surrounded by Morons

Just kidding!! Honestly!!! Really!

Close Encounters of the Math Kind

Alert readers of this blog may have noticed (front page) that I have an Erdös Number of 4. That's to say, I've published (several) papers co-authored with someone, who co-authored a paper with someone, who co-authored a paper with the mathematician Paul Erdös.