Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

This item , from the Royal Statistical Society's RRSeNews site. The U.K. Protection of Freedoms Act 2012   now requires public secto...

R will overtake SAS and SPSS in 2015 - according to David Smith in his post on the Revolutions blog . I can believe that! © 2012, ...

Just in case you haven't previously seen John Siegfried's 1970 piece in the JPE.......... (or here - thanks Dimitriy!) (H-T to J...

Revisions to official economic statistics are a fact of life. They happen all of the time. Many data are released on a "provisional...

Last July I posted about the 2011 Econometric Game . The 2012 edition of the Game was held last month, with the top three places going to ...

Francis Smart, a grad. student at Michigan State U., has written to me about his blog - EconometricsbySimulation . As Francis says, ...

Always on the look-out for accessible data, I was interested to see this recent post on the Guardian's DataBlog site. It discusses a n...

Last Thursday, Neil Shah had this piece in the Wall Street Journal . There'a a battle going on between the top U.S. economics depar...

Some of us learn easily from the written word, but for most of us some visualization speeds up the process and generally helps with retenti...

As a result of my recent post on Bayesian estimation of a simple consumption function, a few people emailed asking for proofs of the resu...