The Business and Economic Statistics Section

SECTION NEWS

• Greetings from the Section Chair, Dr. Sastry Pantula.
• Results from the 2008 elections are available from this site.
• 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.

JSM 2008

• The 2008 Economic Outlook Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, August 5 at 12:30 PM. The speaker is Tapen Sinha of Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, and his topic is Epidemics in a Globalized World: Economic and Financial Lessons from HIV/AIDS.
• Members of the B & E section are invited to the Business Meeting of the Section, starting at 5:30 PM on Monday, August 4, as well as a joint mixer with the Marketing Section scheduled for 6:30 PM on the same evening.
• To view more B & E section activies at JSM 2008, select this link to the online program for JSM 2008.

ZELLNER THESIS AWARD

• The recipient of the 2007 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics was officially announced at the Section's Business Meeting at the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City : Panle Jia, Yale University thesis, "Entry and Competition in the Retail and Service Industries.".
• One researcher received honorable mention:  Azeem M. Shaikh, for the Stanford University thesis, "Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry".
• More information on the 2008 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics is available on this web site, including links to the 2007 award winning theses. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2008.

JULIUS SHISKIN AWARD

• William R. Bell, a Senior Mathematical Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau, and Robert M. Groves, Director of the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, have been selected as the recipients of the 2008 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.
• 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

• Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings
  Pittsburgh, PA
  June 19 - 22, 2008
• 28th International Symposium on Forecasting
  Nice, France
  June 22 - 25, 2008
• 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings
  Denver, CO
  August 3 - 7, 2008
• Econometric Society North American Winter Meetings
  San Francisco, CA
  January 3 - 5, 2009
• For more complete listings, access the conference section of econometriclinks.com