* 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. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------