In today’s highly-competitive business climate, it is vital that economists and analysts possess a firm grasp of the economic data that factor into business decisions, drive economic modeling, and influence policy debates. Understanding how the data are constructed is a prerequisite for...

The North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be held in San Antonia, Texas in January as part of the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association.

Social network analysis is focused on uncovering the patterning of people's interaction. Network analysis is based on the intuitive notion that the patterns of social structure are important features of the lives of the individuals who display them. Network analysts believe that how an...

Astonishing recent progress in numerical optimization presents many opportunities and challenges for modern data analysis and scientific inference. Econometrics and statistics offer a valuable angle from which to study optimization problems and, conversely, operations research offers a...

The 2023 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be held in New Orleans, LA on January 5-8, 2023 as part of the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association. The program will consist of contributed and invited papers, and will start with a Presidential Address...