The Business and Economic Statistics Section

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JSM 2009

  • picture of siem jan koopmansProfessor S.J. Koopman of the Free University of Amsterdam will be teaching a short course entitled "State Space Time Series Analysis in Practice" at JSM 2009 in Washington, D.C..
    • This one-day course, which is aimed at applied statisticians and students interested in time series analysis and forecasting, will provide a practical guide to state space methodology, and will include topics such as the Kalman filter, smoothing methods, unobserved components, signal extraction, forecasting, stochastic volatility, and simulation methods. A wide range of applications will be covered, including financial time series (returns, volatility, risk), economics (inflation, unemployment), engineering (signal extraction), medicine (intervention analysis), marketing (multiple time series) and more. The practical cases are illustrated using the OxMetrics software system, which includes the user-friendly packages STAMP and SsfPack.
    • Professor Koopman is an internationally renowned researcher and software developer, and has a great amount of experience teaching courses of this type. You are encouraged to participate in what will surely be an important short course.
    • The fee is $360 for regular members and $220 for student members.
  • Barry Bosworth, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, will speak at the section's traditional luncheon, the Economic Outlook Luncheon. The title of his talk will be "Rebalancing the American Economy: Challenges to Recovery" on Tuesday, August 4, 12:30-2:00.
    • Bosworth has stated that a sustained economic recovery seems unlikely until the uncertainty surrounding the solvency of major financial institutions has been resolved. He will focus on the challenges that the U.S. faces in mounting a recovery, including both the budget deficit and the trade deficit. The crisis and large wealth losses may trigger a long-sought rebalancing of the nation's saving and investment.
    • Bosworth is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program and the Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution. His areas of expertise include capital formation, fiscal policy, inflation, social security, and international economics.
    • As a luncheon, this event requires a $40 fee at registration. (If you have already registered, you can still add this to your registration). Bosworth replaces Martin Baily, previously announced and also at Brookings, who had to withdraw.
  • Members of the B & E section are invited to the Business Meeting of the Section, in Meeting Room 5 of the Renaissance Washington Hotel starting at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, August 4. A joint mixer with the Marketing Section is scheduled for 6:30 PM on the same evening.
  • To view more B & E section activies at JSM 2009, select this link to the online program for JSM 2009, or download this PDF file for a summary of events.

ZELLNER THESIS AWARD

  • The recipient of the 2008 Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics was officially announced at the Section's Business Meeting at the 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver : Viktor Todorov, for the Duke University thesis "Jump Processes in Finance: Modeling, Simulation, Inference and Pricing.".
  • One researcher received honorable mention:  Andriy Norets, for the University of Iowa thesis "Bayesian Inference in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models".
  • More information on the 2009 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, 2009.

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 April 1, 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.

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