Biopharmaceutical Business and Economic Statistics
Rich Program Scheduled for JSM
Barbara Rossi, section Program Chair, and Graham Elliott, section Program Chair-elect
T
he B&E Section is happy to fellow for economic studies at the
2009 Student Travel
announce a rich program for Brookings Institution. Baily was chair
JSM 2009 in Washington, DC. of the Council of Economic Advisers
Award Winners
Included are the following five invited during the Clinton administration from
Eric Aldrich, Duke University, and
sessions: 1999–2001 and one of three members
Irma Hernandez-Magallanes,
of the council from 1994–1996.
University of California, Berkeley,
Large Systems of Accounts There also will be a lunch roundtable,
are the winners of $500 travel
titled “What Makes the Introductory
Measuring Financial and Real Sector
awards to JsM 2009. Hernandez-
Course in Applied Statistics for Business
Linkages
Students Different?”
Magallanes will present “Detecting
seasonal Volatility: A Banking
Recent Developments in Seasonal
On August 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00
Application” in the topic-
Adjustment Methodology
p.m., there will be a short course, “State
Space Time Series Analysis in Practice,”
contributed session Topics in
Statistical Techniques for Estimating
presented by S. J. Koopman of the Free
seasonal Time series on August
DSGE Models
University of Amsterdam.
5. Aldrich’s talk, “Computational
Methods for Production-Based
Statistical Methods for Forecasting
Last, but not least, the program will
benefit from a series of contributed ses- Asset Pricing Models,” is part
In addition are the following 12
sions and topic-contributed poster ses-
of the contributed session
topic-contributed sessions:
sions on a variety of topics, including
statistical Methods on August 6.
the following:
Advances in Time Series
Econometrics
Analysis of Financial Time Series
DC. Invited sessions add to the quality of
Bayesian Estimation of Diffusion
Diffusion Processes and Financial the program and are a great chance to get
Models
Markets attention for a prominent research area.
A proposal ideally consists of a para-
Benchmarking and Reconciliation
Education
graph describing the theme of the session
and a list of presenters who have agreed
Forecasting and Real-Time Data
Inequality and Wage Differentials
to participate, along with tentative titles.
Methods, Computing, and
Labor Markets and Firm
Typically, invited sessions consist of three
Application of Copulas
Competitiveness
or four papers or three papers and a dis-
cussant. Each speaker has 25–30 min-
Multivariate Statistical Methods for
Macroeconomic Data Analysis and
utes, depending on the format, compared
Business Cycle Analysis
Forecasting
to 15 minutes in a contributed session.
Our section has a guaranteed allot-
Nonlinear Time Series in Economics
New Approaches in Econometrics
ment of four invited sessions, plus the
and Finance
Unit Roots and Cointegration
option of submitting one or two more
Revisions and Regression Effects in
proposals for a competition with other
Official Time Series
Thank you to all who contributed
sections for additional invited sessions.
papers and posters or offered to chair
Proposals should be sent by July 24,
Seasonal Adjustment Methodology sessions. We look forward to seeing you 2009, to Graham Elliott, Department
in Washington, DC, in August.
of Economics, University of California
Temporal and Cross-Sectional
at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
Consistency in PPP
Planning for JSM 2010
(
grelliott@ucsd.edu) or Stuart Scott,
Topics in Seasonal Time Series
We would like to invite members to Bureau of Labor Statistics (scott.stuart@
develop proposals for invited sessions bls.gov).
Trends and Forecasts in Time Series
for JSM 2010 in Vancouver, British Our long-time section member and
Columbia, Canada. Our section needs past chair, Sastry Pantula, will serve as
The Economic Outlook Luncheon
to have a draft slate of invited sessions ASA president in 2010. Hope you can
will feature Martin Neil Baily, senior
to submit at JSM 2009 in Washington, join us in Vancouver. n
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