[Gretl-devel] Gretl working paper series
* WITH THE OBVIOUS APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING *
After having talked about this for a while in several occasions, finally
we inaugurated the Gretl Working Paper Series, which is hosted at the
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali here in Ancona (thanks for
that) and given proper circulation through the RePEc circuit (IDEAS,
EconPapers, etcetera).
Gretl WP #1, by Claudia Pigini and myself, can be found here:
https://ideas.repec.org/p/anc/wgretl/1.html
Of course, we welcome submissions by anybody. So, I think a few words of
what we have in mind will be useful: the gretl working paper series is
part of the overall gretl project.
As such, its aim is to host:
* "geeky" wps: papers devoted to the analysis of computational
techniques which may be used, at least in part, in the gretl code
for accuracy and/or performance (possible examples: what MPI is and
how to use it in hansl, quadrature techniques, optimisation
methods);
* "development" wps: papers which explore recent developments in
econometrics and implement them in gretl, or at least discuss
possible ways to do so (example: documentation to a particularly
complex function package);
* "practitioners" wps: survey/tutorial papers on some reasonably
advanced and general topic, which discuss how certain techniques can
be implemented in gretl (example: how to do policy evaluation in
Gretl: ATE, ATET, PS matching, RDD and all that; or state-of-the-art
trend-cycle decomposition; or the bootstrap; and so on);
* "empirical" wps: research papers in which you use gretl for some
non-trivial empirical modelling (no OLS, please); or possibly, hefty
Monte Carlo experiments.
* "teacher's corner" wps: comprehensive analysis of certain topics
with a view to their adoption as medium-to-advanced teaching
material in courses which use gretl as the reference software
package (example: something like Lee Adkins' book --- perhaps more
limited in scope: ARMAs, unit roots, panel estimators; but again:
please, no OLS).
If you're interested, please submit your working papers to me
(r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it); at least for the moment, we won't have a
formal peer-review procedure, but we may introduce one in the future
if necessary.
I have a LaTeX style file I can send to you for preparing the final
version after acceptance.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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