The Business and Economic Statistics Section

SECTION NEWS

• Greetings from the Section Chair, Dr. Stuart Scott.
• Results from the 2009 elections are available from this site.
• Past Section Chair Sastry Pantula was elected the 105th President of the American Statistical Association. A press release with more information is available on the ASA website.
• Minutes from the 2009 Business and Economic Statistics Section Meeting in Washington, DC are available from this site.
• Minutes from meetings of special committees on membership and budget issues held prior to the 2009 JSM in Washington, DC are available from this site.

JSM 2010

• The 2010 Business and Econommics program chair encourages you to organize a topic-contributed session for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). The theme of JSM 2010 will be "Statistics: A Key to Innovation in a Data-Centric World." If you are interested in organizing a topic-contributed session, please contact Graham Elliott ( grelliott@ucsd.edu ) by December 1, 2009 and provide a brief session description as well as a list of speakers and/or discussants.

ZELLNER THESIS AWARD

• The recipient of the 2009 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics was officially announced at the Section's Business Meeting at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC : Amanda Ellen Kowalski, for the MIT thesis "Essays on Medical Care Using Semiparametric and Structural Econometrics".
• One researcher received honorable mention:  Xun Tang, for the Northwestern University thesis "Essays in Empirical Auctions and Partially Identified Econometric Models".
• More information on the 2010 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics is available on this web site, including links to the 2008 award winning theses. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2010.

JULIUS SHISKIN AWARD

• Helen Stone Tice, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Civil Society Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics. For more details, access the press release (PDF) on this website.
• This award is jointly sponsored by the National Association for Business Economics, The Washington Statistical Society and the Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association.
• Nominations are invited for the 2010 Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics; nomination forms are available on this website. The deadline for nominations is March 5, 2010.
• More information on the Shiskin Award is available on this web site.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

• The Joint Program in Survey Methodology has several short courses on topics in survey methodology and economic statistics that are open for registration. Access the JPSM website at http://www.jpsm.umd.edu and select "JPSM Short Courses" on the top menu bar for online registration and course information.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

• American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting
  Atlanta, GA
  January 3-5, 2010
• 6th ECB Workshop on Forecasting Techniques
  Frankfurt am Main
  March 5-6 2010
• Annual Meeting of Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
  Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
  May 23 - May 26, 2010
• International Symposium of Forecasters 2010
  San Diego, California
  June 20-23, 2010
• 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings
  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  July 31 - August 5, 2010
• For more complete listings, access the conference section of econometriclinks.com