st: 2013 Mexican SUG meeting: Final Announcement

[Alfonso Miranda <alfonso.miranda@cide.edu>]

2013 MEXICAN STATA USERS GROUP MEETING

DATE: May 3, 2013

VENUE: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, CIDE Carretera

México-Toluca 3655,  México, D.F.

COST: TBA

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22, 2013

Organized by MultiON Consulting SA de CV, distributor of Stata for Mexico

and Central America, and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

(CIDE), the 2013 Mexican Stata Users Group meeting will be held on May 3,

2013 at CIDE, in Mexico City. The meeting is open to all interested.

StataCorp will be represented.

Christopher F. Baum (Boston College) is attending the meeting as

international guest speaker. He is author of the books "An Introduction to

Stata Programming" and "An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using

Stata" and has authored over 50 papers in highly regarded journals,

including Computational Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal

of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of

International Money and Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and

Oxford Economic Papers.

The meeting will include the usual ³wishes and grumbles² session, at which

you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.

The Mexican Stata Users Group meeting is a one-day international

conference about the use of Stata in a wide breadth of fields and

environments, mixing theory and practice. The bulk of the conference is

made up of selected submitted presentations. Together with the keynote

address, these sessions provide fertile ground for learning about

statistics and Stata. All users are encouraged to submit abstracts for

possible presentations.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Talks (and submitted proposals) should be presented at a level that is

equivalent to any other international conference in econometrics and

statistics. Talks should demonstrate ³theoretical rigor and a hands-on

approach²: the speaker should describe in good detail the methods being

used

and present one or two worked-out examples that show how the model can be

fitted in Stata. The focus should be on the methods and their

implementation in Stata rather than on the results for a specific

empirical application. There is no need to use real data; using simulated

data is acceptable. However, discussing the implementation and use of a

method with a real-life application will be always welcomed and considered

beneficial.

Presentation topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

- discussion of user-written Stata programs

- case studies of research or teaching using Stata

- discussions of data management problems

- reviews of analytical issues

- surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The deadline for submissions is March 22, 2013. The program will be

announced by the end of the first week of April. Please send submissions

by email to the scientific organizers. indicating whether you wish to give:

- a 15-minute talk (followed by a 5-minute discussion),

- a 25-minute talk (followed by a 5-minute discussion), or

- a longer review or tutorial (about an hour).

Presentations may be given in English or in Spanish, depending upon the

preference of the speaker.

Contact the scientific committee if you have questions regarding the

suitability of a potential contribution. For all other matters, contact

the logistics organizer.

REGISTRATION

MultiON Consulting generously sponsors registration fee waivers for

presentations (one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of the number

of authors).

Registration information will be available soon.

ORGANIZERS

Scientific committee:

Alejandro López-Feldman (co-chair)

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, CIDE

(alejandro.lopez@cide.edu)

Alfonso Miranda (co-chair)

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, CIDE

(alfonso.miranda@cide.edu)

Logistics organizer:

MultiON Consulting SA de CV, distributor of Stata in Mexico

and Central America

Victoria Leon

Email: vleon@multion.com.mx

Phone: +52 (55) 5559 4050 x 160

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Professor Alfonso Miranda

Economics Division

Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico.

E-mail: alfonso.miranda@cide.edu

Tel. 00525557279800 ext 2765

Web: http://www.cide.edu/investigador/profile.php?IdInvestigador=1271