Preliminary program: Session I. - Coherency Conditions: Thirty Years Later - Generalized Method of Moments with Tail Trimming - Towards Identi¯cation of Shocks in State-Space Models: Application to Stochastic Volatility Session II. - Habit, Long Run Risks, Prospect? A Statistical Inquiry -...

The lags in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy mean that policymakers must forecast the future path of the economy. Accurate forecasts are only possible with a clear understanding of the structure of the economy and the shocks affecting it. This two-week seminar aims to improve...

This conference will be the ninth event in the series of annual European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, begun in Berlin in 2001. This year's conference will also be the global launch event of the Earth System Governance Project, a new ten-year research...

The subject of the conference is "Internet Use and Impact. Quantitatives Analysis" Topics: - Critical Approach to Qualitative or Quantitative Analysis of ICT - Global or Sectoral Spinn-off of the Internet - Analysis and Practical Uses of the Internet - Transformation of Traditional Markets -...

The overall theme of the conference this year will be Green Mileage in the Global Meltdown: An Ecological Economics Way Forward. This has been chosen to encourage discussion and ideas on how ecological economics can help provide both economic and sustainability solutions in the wake of the...

The conference will provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of research results and practical experiences within the fields of computational and financial econometrics, empirical economics, time-series and cross-section statistics and applied mathematics. The conference programme will...

The conference sessions are expected to cover the following topics: History of Statistics; Climate Change; Identification & Registration of People; Health/Medicine/Public Health; Complex interventions in primary care; Statistical education; Exploding myths with statistics; Engaging with the media;...

Biosecurity and policy actions to protect plant and animal health and the environment are among the highest concerns of government. This Symposium brings together key policy makers and researchers in biosecurity, with a focus on appropriate policy actions against invasive species and the...

This summer school will focus on how global change affects principal processes, compartments, interactions of the earth system. The summer school will combine general principles of earth system science with cutting-edge scientific insights. Specific topics that will be covered include: - Global...

The School consists of three two-week sessions. Each session offers a variety of courses. Courses run for either one or two weeks. Courses consist of at least one lecture and a practical session daily. Most courses deal with techniques of data collection, analysis, and model building. The Summer...