The Wrap – Day 3 – thank you and goodbye!

This is the last post from the conference team. We hope you’ve enjoyed the conference and found the keynotes, papers, commentaries and other materials useful and the discussions stimulating. Thank you for your participation.

If you had trouble viewing any of the videos, we’ve since added audio recordings (alongside the slides), which should be compatible with any computer. This is relevant to Prof. Hendry’s keynote, linked to below, and to Prof. Stanley’s keynote.

The best comment for Day 2 was awarded to Margaret Giles, for her comment on Prof. Viscui’s paper on Value of Statistical Life. Here’s a summary of what else happened on the last day of the conference:

Reminder: Book Discount

Delegates will receive a 20% discount code on books available at http://www.wiley.com in the post-conference email. To receive the email (and discount code), please register with the conference, if you haven’t done so already.

Wiley publishes an extensive programme of economics and econometrics books, which you can browse on our economics pages; titles include A Companion to Economic Forecasting, co-edited by today’s keynote lecturer, Prof. David Hendry.

Keynotes – audio

A quick update for all those who have had problems watching the videos for the  keynotes by Profs Stanley and Hendry. We have now uploaded separate audio files and added those files at the foot of the original keynote pages. The slides for the keynotes can be downloaded separately on those same pages.

• Keynote: Trends in Meta-Analysis, Tom Stanley
• Keynote: Trends in Econometrics, David Hendry

Apologies to those who have experienced technical problems.

Reminder: Register for Certificate of Attendance

It’s still not too late to register “officially” for the conference, even if you’ve already been taking part in the conference. If you register and take part in next week’s post-conference survey, you will receive an electronic Certificate of Attendance. If you have not yet registered, we encourage you to sign up here.

Today’s sessions – Friday

“Communications with Economists” closes today with a final programme of keynotes, papers, commentaries, workshops, discounts, prizes and more.

Keynote address

09:00		Current & Future Trends in Econometrics
		Sir David Hendry, University of Oxford

Conference paper, with invited commentaries

12:00		Models of Regional Growth: Past, Present and Future
		Richard Harris, University of Glasgow

Publishing Workshops

14:00		Bibliometrics / Rankometrics
		Les Oxley, University of Canterbury
17:00		The Future of Publishing
		Philip Carpenter, Wiley-Blackwell

We are also pleased to announce an additional workshop paper that is being made freely available today:

12:00		What’s an Economics Seminar Worth?
		Etienne Farvaque and Hakim Hammadou, University of Lille

And that brings us to the close of the conference, with just a few more posts during the day interspersped among our primary programme. Thanks for joining us!

The Wrap – Day 2

This is the last post on the second day of the conference, but we’ll continue to moderate and approve comments throughout the day and night. A preview of day 3 will be up in a couple of hours and then the final keynote is released at 09.00 GMT.

The first two days have been phenomenally successful – more than 4,500 page views and 140+comments – and we hope they have also been enjoyable for all delegates. We would like once again to express our gratitude to everyone who has participated and made the conference possible.

Today’s summary of events follows:

Reminder: Free Journal Articles

Remember, you have free access to some papers published across Wiley-Blackwell’s portfolio of economics journals on Wiley Online Library.

So far we’ve released virtual issues on the 2011 Economics Nobel Prize winners, the Journal of Economic Surveys 25th anniversary and on:

• Experimental Economics
• Meta-Analysis

Tomorrow we’ll be making a final virtual issue available: on econometrics.

Reminder: Book Discount

Remember, delegates receive a 20% discount code on books available at http://www.wiley.com in the post-conference email. To receive the email (and discount code), please register with the conference, if you haven’t done so already.

For instance, you may be intersted in the Surveys of Recent Research in Economics series, which we publish in association with the Journal of Economic Surveys. Many more titles are available to browse on the Wiley economics pages.

Today’s sessions – Thursday

It’s the second day of the online conference – thank you for all your engagement and comments so far. Our programme for today is as follows:

Keynote address

09:00		Current & Future Trends in Meta-Analysis
		Tom Stanley, Hendrix College

Conference papers, with invited commentaries

12:00		Happiness Economics from 35,000 feet
		George MacKerron, London School of Economics
12:00		What’s to Know? Puzzles in the Literature on the Value of Statistical Life
		Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University

Publishing Workshops

14:00		From Publication to Impact: Using Google Scholar and Publish or Perish to Measure Research Impact
		Anne-Wil Harzing, University of Melbourne
17:00		How to Survive the Review Process
		Greg Maney, Hofstra University

Today we’ll also be making public who has been awarded the “best comment” prize from among the comments received on the first day of the conference.

The Wrap – Day 1

This is the last post for today from the conference team, but we’ll continue to moderate and approve comments throughout the day and night. So please do continue to read, watch, listen – and post your responses on the conference site.

Here’s a summary of what we’ve covererd today:

Reminder: Free Journal Articles

Throughout the conference you have free access to some highly relevant papers published across Wiley-Blackwell’s portfolio of economics journals on Wiley Online Library. We’ve already made available some papers by the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel).

Today we also released a “virtual issue” made up of papers in experimental economics and have two more virtual issues in the pipeline, due to be released tomorrow and on Friday:

• 17 November – 09:00 – virtual issue on meta-analysis
• 18 November – 09:00 – virtual issue on econometrics

Additionally, you can also read a free virtual issue of the Journal of Economic Surveys, released earlier in the year to celebrate the journal’s 25th Anniversary.

Reminder: Comment of the Day Award

A crucial feature of the online conference is discussion among and between delegates and presenters.

We will be awarding a daily prize of $75/£50 worth of Wiley books to recognize the “best comment” made by a delegate during each 24-hour period. The first award will be announced on Thursday 17 November at 13:00 GMT.

We hope to see a very high level of discussion specifically in response to the keynotes, papers, commentaries and workshops and strongly encourage you to respond to these with considered, substantive comments. We look forward to reading your contributions.

Today’s sessions – Wednesday

“Communications with Economists” kicks off today with a packed programme: a keynote address, conference papers, invited commentaries and publishing workshops (all times are GMT).

Keynote address

09:00		Laboratory experiments: Topics of study, 2001-2010
		Charles Noussair, Tilburg University

Conference papers, with invited commentaries

12:00		Designing Economics Instruments for the Environment in a Decentralised Fiscal System
		James Alm, Tulane University, and H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
12:00		Classifying Monetary Economics: Fields and Methods from Past to Future
		Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, and Alexander Mihailov, University of Reading

Publishing Workshops

14:00		Experimental Economics
		Steve Tucker, University of Canterbury
17:00		Why Write a Review Paper? And how to do it!
		Mike Bradshaw, University of Leicester

Throughout the day we’ll also be posting polls and other updates, and we particularly look forward to reading your comments – we’ll be announcing the winning comment tomorrow at 13:00.

Online economics conference starts this week

We are very pleased to announce that the 3-day Wiley Economics Online Conference starts this week – on Wednesday 16 November 2011!

To get the most out of the conference, we encourage you to register and sign up for email alerts, check out the conference programme (PDF), spread the word on facebook and twitter (#joes2011), read the book of abstracts and, if you’re unsure about the commenting feature, take a look at our participants’ guide – we’re awarding a daily “best comment” award throughout the conference.

We hope you’ll be able to join us for the three days. The conference is free, available to all, and can, of course, be accessed at any time of day. Feedback is welcome, so if you do have any questions, please contact us on twitter or leave a comment below.

Out now – conference programme, participants’ guide and book of abstracts

There’s just over a week to go until the online conference begins next week! In the meantime, we are pleased to release the final version of the conference programme, a participants’ guide and a complete book of abstracts.

Communications with Economists: Current and Future Trends

16-18 November 2011

You can still register for free on the site, allowing you take advantage of:

• Video keynotes
• Invited papers and commentaries
• Publishing workshops
• Reading room with free publications
• Book discounts and more

If everything’s working, you should be able to see the book of abstracts at the foot of this post (click on “expand” to read and navigate) – if not, you can also find the booklet here.

We’d be very grateful for any feedback – let us know what you think in the comments below – and, if there’s anyone you know who might be intersted but hasn’t signed up yet, please spread the word by sharing via email, twitter (hashtag #joes2011) or facebook (see the handy “share this” buttons below). We have more than 1,500 registered delegates to date, but the more participants, the more engaging we hope the discussions will be.

Thank you for registering!

More than 1,014 people from 121 countries have already registered for this online conference!  Thank you for registering, and please encourage your colleagues to do the same.

How to register for the conference

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Coming Soon!

The Wiley Economics Online Conference – presented in co-operation with Journal of Economic Surveys – runs from 16-18 November and is free and open to all.

“Communications with Economists” sets out to challenge the fragmentation of the economics discipline.

Leading experts present research from within their areas of specialization, with a view to broadening the exchange of ideas to the wider economics profession, as well as to policymakers and financial journalists. The focus is on current topics that are at the forefront of particular areas and on emerging trends that will shape the future.

The conference is headlined by three video keynotes:

• Professor Sir David Hendry on justifying empirical macro-econometric evidence
• Professor Charles Noussoir on explaining and communicating economics research to economists
• Professor Tom Stanley on laboratory experiments

There will be a further five papers with invited commentaries (with topics ranging from happiness economics to monetary economics), workshops on publishing, a reading room with free access to related journal articles, discounts on Wiley books and more. Keynote speakers, discussants, authors and delegates will engage in discussion on the conference website.

“Communications with Economists” is free to access and open to all – register now to join the debate.