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.

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...

We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between sovereign bond markets and conventional and unconventional monetary policy, regulation, fiscal policy, foreign exchange, and the macroeconomy in unstable times. Topics of interest include (but are not limited...

Topics: - Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown ; - Panel: “The Return of Inflation: Why and What to Do About It” ; - Inflation Strikes Back: The Return of Wage to Price Pass-Through ; - Labor Market Structure, Wages and Inequality ; - Errors in Expectations and...