The Government Statistics Section, Business and Economic Statistics Section, and Washington Statistical Society will sponsor the 2nd Seasonal Adjustment Practitioners Workshop. The workshop will take place April 26, 2018, at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC.

The ASA Business and Economic Statistics Section is pleased to announce that Edward Leamer will speak at the Economic Outlook Luncheon during the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, California, on July 31.

The Business and Economic Statistics Section (B&E) is offering up to two travel awards—roughly $350—for students in doctoral programs in business, economics, econometrics, statistics, or allied disciplines. The awards will help students attend the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings, to be held in Miami Beach, Florida, from July 30 to August 4.

Although attendance at JSM 2010 in Vancouver, BC, was expected to be less than JSM 2009 in Washington, DC, the Business and Economics Statistics Section was active. The section sponsored four invited sessions and many more topic-contributed sessions, which were well-attended, as well as contributed, poster, and panel sessions. Topics included Bayesian econometrics, forecasting, seasonal adjustment, benchmarking, and volatility estimation.

The Business and Economic Statistics Section will hold a short course on using X-13ARIMA-SEATS. The course will alternate between theory and practice and include time for participants to use and explore the software with guidance from the instructors.

Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, will be the Economic Outlook Luncheon speaker on August 3, from 12:30–1:50 p.m. during the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings.

This year’s speaker at the JSM Economic Outlook Luncheon will be Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, on the topic “Predicting the Present with Google Trends.”

March 31 is the deadline to submit theses for the 2010 Zellner Thesis Award, sponsored by the Business and Economic Statistics Section.

JSM 2009 set a new attendance record of roughly 6,800, about 1,200 more than Denver and nearly 800 more than Seattle. The Business and Economic Statistics Section had an exceptionally active year, with 30 technical sessions, including many in the areas of econometrics and seasonal time series.