Check out this new prize, http://statprize.org/ (Thanks, Dave Giles, for informing me via your tweet.) It should be USD 1 Million, ahead of the Nobel, as statistics is a key part (arguably the key part) of the foundation on which every science builds.
And obviously check out David Cox, the first winner. Every time I've given an Oxford econometrics seminar, he has shown up. It's humbling that he evidently thinks he might have something to learn from me. What an amazing scientist, and what an amazing gentleman.
And also obviously, the new StatPrize can't help but remind me of Ted Anderson's recent passing, not to mention the earlier but recent passings, for example, of Herman Wold, Edmond Mallinvaud, and Arnold Zellner. Wow -- sometimes the Stockholm gears just grind too slowly. Moving forward, StatPrize will presumably make such econometric recognition failures less likely.
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Thursday, November 3, 2016
Monday, January 19, 2015
Haavelmo and Causal Modeling
Speaking of causal modeling, as we were in a recent post, Econometric Theory is doing a special issue on Haavelmo. (This is not new information, but hey, I'm usually slow to notice things, and perhaps you are too.) Should be a fine issue, with many fascinating papers, including Heckman-Pinto. I list some of them below, from ET's "First View" page.
HAAVELMO’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SIMULTANEOUS-EQUATIONS ESTIMATION
HAAVELMO’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SIMULTANEOUS-EQUATIONS ESTIMATION
Monday, October 13, 2014
Lawrence R. Klein Legacy Colloquium
In Memoriam
The Department of Economics of the University of
Pennsylvania, with kind support from the School of Arts and Sciences, the
Wharton School, PIER and IER, is pleased is pleased to host a colloquium, "The Legacy of Lawrence R. Klein: Macroeconomic Measurement, Theory, Prediction and Policy," on Penn’s campus, Saturday, October 25, 2014. The full program and related information are here. We look forward to
honoring Larry’s legacy throughout the day. Please join us if you can.
Featuring:
- Olav Bjerkholt, Professor of Economics, University of Oslo
- Harold L. Cole, Professor of Economics and Editor of International Economic Review, University of Pennsylvania
- Thomas F. Cooley, Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics, New York University
- Francis X. Diebold, Paul F. Miller, Jr. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Dirk Krueger, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Enrique G. Mendoza, Presidential Professor of Economics and Director of Penn Institute for Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania
- Glenn D. Rudebusch, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Frank Schorfheide, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Christopher A. Sims, John F. Sherrerd ‘52 University Professor of Economics, Princeton University
- Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy
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