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 conference provides a venue for research using firm and plant-level data on a wide range of topics, disciplines and countries. It is unique meeting place for producers and users of these data including statisticians, survey methodologists, economists, sociologists, and other social...

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.

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...

In our third year of a global pandemic, we are stretched thin, suffering touches us all, and our wells of empathy seem to be running dry. And yet, despite this suffering many of us are also paying closer attention to our own well-being and to the well-being of those around us. In this spirit of...