Volume 9, Issue 1, 1995
News
Royal Economic Society Conference, Computing Sessions
Chris Birchenhall has again organised several computing sessions
for the annual RES conference, which this year takes place at the
University of Kent in Canterbury from 27th to 30th March. All
computing sessions are to be held on Tuesday 28th March. The
provsional timetable is as follows: 9.00 - 11.00 am Two
parallel sessions A. World Wide Web Demonstration and
discussion (Chair: C.R. Birchenhall). B GAUSS and add-in
libraries (Chair: Ray O'Brien). 2.00 - 3.30 pm Launch and
Hands-on Session for WinEcon. (Economics Consortium). 4.00 -
5.15 pm National Data Services: MIDAS and Essex Archive (Chair:
Chris Birchenhall). For further information about the conference
conatct Alan Carruth in the Department of Economics at the
University of Kent.
The Eastern Economics Association (USA)
This year's meetings are being held
this year in New York City from 17th to 19th March. Professor
Thomas Hamer of Rowan College New Jersey has organised a session
on "The Internet and Computer-Aided Learning: Uses and
Experiences!. For further information you can contact him at
HAME7090@elan.rowan.edu
One Day Workshop - An Introduction to STATA
The first of two workshops organised by the CTI Centre for
Economics (with sponsorship from the ESRC) on the statistics /
econometrics package STATA is to be held on 14th March at the
University of London Computing Centre. A second - advanced
workshop will be held early in May. Details will be released
shortly.
The Workshop sessions will be taken by Dr. James Banks (Institute
for Fiscal Studies). The emphasis of the workshop will be gaining
hands on experience of the package. Each participant will have
access to a workstation.
Places on the workshop are strictly limited so early booking is
advised. The fee for the workshop (inclusive of lunch and
refreshments) is £50.
ESRC Postgraduate students are entitled to attend the workshop
at no charge (please let us have proof of eligibility with the
booking form). Full payment should accompany the booking form -
cheques should be made payable to the "University of Bristol".
Accomodation for the 13th or 14th March may be available at local
hotels at the participants own expense. Please include a note
with your booking form if you would like to be sent details of
accomodation.
Booking forms may be obtained from: Centre for Computing in
Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, 8
Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TN. Tel: 0117 928 8478; Fax: 0117
928 8577; Email: CTICCE@bristol.ac.uk
One Day Workshop - The Internet for Economists
The CTI Centre for Economics, in collaboration with the ESRC
Networked Information Office at the Centre for Computing in
Economics has organised a one day workshop on The Internet for
Economists to be held on 22nd March 1995. The workshop will
include hands-on sessions taken by Nicky Ferguson and Debra Hiom
and will cover Internet basics, e-mail and e-mail lists, the
World Wide Web and File Transfer Protocol. The fee for the
workshop (including lunch and refreshments) is £50 (ESRC
Postgraduate students free of charge on proof of eligibility).
Further information and booking forms from the Centre for
Computing in Economics.
WWW 95
The Third International World Wide Web conference will
be held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in
Darmstadt, Germany from April 10th to 14th. The conference will
feature a demonstration session and a "poster forum". For more
information look at http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/www95.html
CompEco '95
The First International Conference of the Society on
Computational Economics is to be held from May 21st to 24th at
Austin, Texas. The theme for the conference will be "Computing
in Economics and Finance". The conference will be jointly
sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin IC2 Institute,
the College and Graduate School of Business Center for
Information Systems Management, the Department of Economics at
Austin, the National Science Foundation, the IEEE Computer
Society and the RGK Foundation. The keynote lecture by Ken Judd
will be titled "Computational Economics and Economic Thoery:
Substitutes or Complements?" Other presenters include Hal Varian,
John Geweke, Berc Rustem, Chris Birchenhall, Tom
Sargent, Bill Goffe, Bob Parks and David Kendrick. Further
information on the conference program from Andy Whinston on
(0101) 512 471 8879 and on conference registration from Melissa
Brown at the RGK Foundation on (0101) 512 474-9298.
NNCM-95
The Third International Conference on Neural Networks
in the Capital Markets will be held at the Langham Hilton, London
from the 12th to 13th October 1995. In addition a day of
introductory tutorials (Wednesday 11th October) will be included
to familiarise audiences of different backgrounds with the
financial engineering, neural networks and mathematical aspects
of the field. For further information contact Ms Busola
Oguntula, London Business School, Sussex Place, Regent's Park,
London NW1 4SA. Phone (+44) (0171) 262 50 50;fax (+44) (0171) 724
78 75; e-mail boguntula@lbs.lon.ac.uk
Sixth International CGE Modelling Conference
The Sixth International CGE Modelling Conference will be held at
the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from 26th to 28th
October 1995. Contact Professor Trien Nguyen for more infomation
(nguyen@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca).
Elsevier/North-Holland Electronic Literature Services for
Economists on the Internet
Elsevier/North-Holland has upgraded its services for economists
on the Internet.
ECONbase is an interactive and searchable database that allows
you to obtain up-to-date information on new and published
articles in the 32 Elsevier/North-Holland economics journals. The
database covers all articles published since January 1 1994 and
currently covers about 2000 articles. Contents Alert Economics
provides information on recent and forthcoming articles in the
32 journals.
To subscribe to Contents Alert Economics e-mail econbase-
e@elsevier.nl putting <subscribe casecon-c> in the subject line.
For more information put <help> in the subject line (in both
cases omit the < > brackets. For more information about
ECONbase gopher to gopher.elsevier.nl and select economics
electronic followed by about ECONbase.
NetEc on the Web
NetEc, the information system on Economics working papers and
programs is now available on the World Wide Web. The URL is
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/NetEc.html (watch the capitals). For
further information on NetEc mail the enquiry point at
netec@netec.mcc.ac.uk and give
as your subject.
Pc-Give Professional 8.0
Chapman & Hall have taken over the publication, distribution and
marketing of PcGive (from International Thomson Publishing). You
can contact them at Chapman & Hall Ltd, 2-6 Boundary Row, London
SE1 8HN. Tel 0171 865 0066; Fax 0171 552 9623; e-mail
steven.reed@chall.co.uk (NB 3 May 1995 revision: the email address
shown in the printed version has been changed - from the Webmaster)
Economic Journal Software Reviews Section
Forthcoming reviews include:
May 1995 PcGive Professional 8.0 and PcGive Student 8.0 (Guy
Judge and R.Id. Harris); BivoProb : Computer Program for Maximum
Likelihood estimation of Bivariate Ordered Probit Models for
Censored data (Robert A. Wright); Genetic Algorithms, Classifier
Systems and Genetic Programming (Chris Birchenhall).
July 1995 Econometric Views (Jennifer Roberts); RATS Version
4.20 and RATS for Windows (Ivonia Rebelo); EconTutor/EconEducator
(Ken Randall).
