Advances in Econometrics Conference Participants

Advances in Econometrics conference held at Ourso College of Business Administration

December 3, 2003

The Department of Economics, together with the Department of Finance and the Division of Economic Development and Forecasting, at LSU's Ourso College of Business Administration hosted the second annual Advances in Econometrics conference November 7-9, 2003, at the Lod and Carole Cook Conference Center on the LSU campus.

The focus of the conference was “Spatial and Spatiotemporal Econometrics.” Dr. Kelley Pace of the Ourso College Department of Finance organized the event, which was funded by the Real Estate Research Institute and the Department of Economics at the Ourso College, and the University of Toledo. Eleven papers were presented by participants from the United States, Denmark, and Spain. U.S. attendees came from academic institutions such as Duke University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Washington, University of Connecticut, and Texas A&M. Across LSU, the economics, finance, agricultural economics, experimental statistics, and geography departments were represented. Papers from the conference will be published in volume 18 of Advances in Econometrics.

The conference is inspired by the research annual Advances in Econometrics, published by Elsevier Science and co-edited by R. Carter Hill (economics, LSU) and Thomas B. Fomby (economics, SMU). The 17th volume in the series, Advances in Econometrics: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models: Twenty Years Later, will be published in 2003 and will include eleven papers authored by distinguished scholars from the United States, England, France, Canada, Hong Kong, and United Arab Emirates.

The tentative topic for the 2004 Advances in Econometrics conference is "Financial Econometrics," a cue from the research focus of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences winners, Clive Granger of the University of California at San Diego and Robert Engle of New York University.

For more information on the Advances in Econometrics conference series contact R. Carter Hill via e-mail at eohill@lsu.edu or by fax at 225/578-3807. For more information on the Department of Economics or the Ourso College, visit www.bus.lsu.edu.