EC-squared is a series of annual international conferences on research in quantitative economics and econometrics, launched in 1990. The acronym (EC)2 stands for European Conferences of the Econom[etr]ics Community. Its main aim is to maintain and extend an adequate forum for both senior and...

The conference will assess current welfare statistics and demonstrate the relevance of these figures to existing and future welfare practices and reforms. Topics covered will include ageing and aged care, children, youth and families, welfare expenditure, labour force, housing and homelessness.

The scope of the conference will be to present the most recent research on multivariate volatility modelling, including applications to risk management, portfolio choice and betas. We welcome papers related to the econometric and statistical modeling of large sets of assets, multivariate series...

Metropolis International 2007 is an internationally significant research-based conference that focuses on immigration and settlement issues. While Metropolis conferences have a general unifying focus, it is the host city that determines the specific theme for the week-long event. The 12th...

Topics: I. Forecast Evaluation A. Review of standard results B. Comparison of a small number of non-nested models: Diebold / Mariano / West (DMW) statistic; asymptotic irrelevance C. Comparison of a small number of nested models D. Comparison of a large number of models II. Present value models...

The aim of this conference is to present the statistical and mathematical principles of smoothing with a focus on applicable techniques in fields like econometrics, time series, finance, environmental sciences, biometrics, spatial analysis, among others. The meeting will provide a varied and...

The theme for the 2007 conference is 'Social Policy through the Life Course: Building Community Capacity and Social Resilience'. This theme encapsulates two interrelated issues in social policy. The first concerns life-course transitions, including the diverse challenges and opportunities which...

The aim of the conference is to bring together scientists, both economists and physicists, interested in problems in economics and finance. A wide range of topics has been covered including, for example, analysis of time series, option pricing, agent models and game theory. Scope It is now...

This year's Summer School is a three day course for PhD students and academics, working in the fields of Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis. This course introduces the major policy questions of macroeconomics and presents macroeconomic models to assist policy development. An emphasis will be...

This course is suitable for researchers, academics and MA and PhD students. Some background on basic econometrics and STATA software is needed to attend this course.