Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

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

A recent post, titled Free Data! , drew comments about some aspects of the availability and cost of official data in Canada. I was therefor...

In a recent post I raised the point about the spurious degree of precision that is often encountered with reported regression results. So,...

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

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

Last Saturday there was a general election in New Zealand, where I've been visiting for the past couple of weeks. In conjunction with t...

I'm currently in New Zealand - hence the smaller number of posts recently - and I came across the following example of a "best bef...

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

Just kidding!! Honestly!!! Really!

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) ...