Timberlake - Training

8^th OxMetrics^TM User Conference

TBA

Centre for Economics Analysis (CEA@Cass)
Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TZ, UK.

Notice of meeting and CALL for papers

This is the first announcement and call for papers for the 8^th OxMetrics User Conference, to be held at Cass Business School on TBA . OxMetrics courses are also available around the conference.

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 feature keynote presentations, technical paper sessions, workshops, tutorials and panel discussions. We expect some of the OxMetrics’ developers (Jurgen A. Doornik, Andrew Harvey, David F. Hendry, Siem J. Koopman and Sébastien Laurent ) to be present as keynote speakers. The other keynote speakers will be announced soon.

The conference is open to all those interested, not just to OxMetrics™ users, from academic and non-academic organisations. There will be a session for participants to put their comments to the development team and suggest improvements.

Submission of an abstract/paper. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit, by e-mail to Giovanni Urga (g.urga@city.ac.uk), a 100-200 word abstract on any issue that contributes to the conference themes by TBA .The full paper must be submitted by the TBA . The programme of the conference will be released by TBA. The submission does not imply that the paper cannot be submitted elsewhere. Consult the web pages

http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/conferences/oxmetrics2009/index.htmll

for updates of the conference.

Registration, accommodation, fee. The logistics of the conference is organised by Timberlake Consultants (www.timberlake.co.uk ), the publishers of OxMetrics™.

Registration on line is available now. There will be a small conference fee: £70 + VAT = £80.50 if full payment of registration is received by TBA or £84 + VAT = £96.60 if full payment of registration is received after TBA to cover costs for coffee, teas, luncheons and conference dinner on the TBA . A limited number of participants can stay at University accommodation and this can be arranged through Timberlake Consultants Ltd.

Programme Committee:

Giovanni Urga (CO-CHAIR) (g.urga@city.ac.uk)	James Davidson (CO-CHAIR) (James.Davidson@exeter.ac.uk)
Jurgen A. Doornik (jurgen.doornik@nuf.ox.ac.uk)	David F. Hendry (david.hendry@nuf.ox.ac.uk)
Andrew Harvey (Andrew.Harvey@econ.cam.ac.uk)	Siem J. Koopman (s.j.koopman@feweb.vu.nl)

The OxMetrics™ software provides an integral solution for the econometric analysis of time series, forecasting, financial econometric modelling and for the statistical analysis of cross-section and panel data within an user friendly GUI interface and extensive graphical reporting. OxMetrics is a modular software system and most of your modelling and forecasting can be done within the friendly and easy-to-use modules (PcGive™, STAMP™, G@RCH™, TSP/GiveWin, Ox Professional™). OxMetrics also provides a powerful module - an object-oriented programming language, Ox Professional™, to allow power users to implement latest theoretical developments and/or integrated packages.