Speaker: Fred Joutz, Professor of Economics and Co-Director of
Research Program on Forecasting The George Washington University
Date : Monday to Wednesday, 20 to 22 February 2012
Time : 9:30am to 5:30pm
Venue : Traders Hotel
Malacca II Room
1A Cuscaden Road
Singapore 249716
Fee : SGD750.00
Please send us your name, organisation and email address via the ESI website here. For enquiries, please contact Ms. Jan Lui at 65162000.
About the workshop:
The objective of the course is to serve as a refresher for economists and analysts on energy modeling and forecasting issues and introduce them to “recent” developments in the time series econometrics field. The course is designed to be hands-on. It is suitable for anyone who works with energy-econometric modeling data in business, industry and government or for those who teach or research time series at universities. Only a basic knowledge in regression and time series analysis is assumed. Familiarity with the software is not required.
This is an intensive course providing an overview of the EViews software and the econometric features of the program. Special attention is given to hands-on model building, testing, and forecasting. Batch files and batch programming will be introduced. No experience with EViews is required, but a reasonable level of econometrics will be assumed.
The course will use energy data sets from Thailand, Taiwan, and Kazakhstan. However, course participants are encouraged to submit examples of their data in advance. A unique and valuable feature of the course is that the instructor attempts to integrate data and models relevant to the participants. Thus, the examples are drawn from their real world experience and not just textbooks and classic papers. This feature illustrates the techniques and general-to-specific modeling philosophy through data analysis and the kinds of research decisions participants are likely to face. The instructor has experience with this teaching method using macroeconomic and electricity market, petroleum, and natural gas data from different countries and sectors.
About the Speaker:
Frederick L. Joutz, is a Professor of Economics at The George Washington University and Co-Director of the Research Program on Forecasting. His areas of research interest are macroeconometrics, energy economics, time series, and forecasting. He contributes macroeconomic forecasts (known as the Benchmark Forecasts) to the Survey of Professional Forecasters (formerly the ASA/NBER Quarterly Outlook) produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. He is a Senior Fellow of the US Association of Energy Economists. He is a former associate editor for Energy Economics and the International Journal of Forecasting.
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