Welcome from the Chair of the Business and Economic Statistics Section

Welcome to our Section web site.

We hope you will use this web site to:

• to access the broad range of economic data available through B&E DataLinks,
• to inform yourself about Section activities, and
• to inform the Executive Committee about activities you would like the Section to be engaged in.

For the annual Joint Statistical Meetings, please suggest topics/speakers for short courses, invited paper sessions, topic contributed paper sessions and the Economic Outlook Luncheon.

Please look at the criteria for the Zellner Thesis Award and the Julius Shiskin Award -- and then nominate a good candidate if you know one. Also, we welcome suggestions for candidates for the Section offices.

B&E Section members who give or have given ASA their email addresses will receive occasional messages about Section activities, award nomination deadlines, etc. If you are not a Section member, please join. We can offer you much, and, with your help, offer even more to our members and to ASA.

Dr. Badi H. Baltagi (email: bbaltagi@maxwell.syr.edu)
University of Syracuse
January 2007