Hi all, I think we need (even) more advertisement for the great 'Gretl' project! What do you think about compiling a handy list of research articles for which we guys used gretl. This may be a simple way to promote gretl and to show that this software is also used for serious research and not only teaching or so. The table/list would be linked to the gretl homepage. I thought about a simple table or list comprising: Author, Title, Year, Journal/Working Paper, Method(s) applied using gretl, URL. I would be happy to manage and update that list if you find this idea compelling.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Artur Tarassow wrote:

>> I think we need (even) more advertisement for the great 'Gretl' >> project! What do you think about compiling a handy list of research >> articles for which we guys used gretl.

> Ah, yes, nice idea. Il'll send you mine asap. On the other hand, thinking about this a bit more, I wonder whether this may be counterproductive, sound a bit like an "excusatio non petita" and convey the opposite message. Can you imagine a page like this on the R website? Opinions?

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 28.02.2018 um 11:00 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Artur Tarassow wrote: > >>>> I think we need (even) more advertisement for the great 'Gretl' >>>> project! What do you think about compiling a handy list of >>>> research articles for which we guys used gretl. > >>> Ah, yes, nice idea. Il'll send you mine asap. >> >> On the other hand, thinking about this a bit more, I wonder whether >> this may be counterproductive, sound a bit like an "excusatio non >> petita" and convey the opposite message. Can you imagine a page like >> this on the R website?

>> >> Opinions? > > I've had similar spontaneous thoughts like yours. Also the thing is, > the gretl mailing list these days is a very incomplete sampling of > users IMO. (I don't want to hijack the thread, but I still believe we > need something like a forum.) Granted.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Artur T. wrote: > Am 28.02.2018 um 13:39 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> Am 28.02.2018 um 11:00 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Artur Tarassow wrote: >>> >>>>>> I think we need (even) more advertisement for the great 'Gretl' >>>>>> project! What do you think about compiling a handy list of >>>>>> research articles for which we guys used gretl. >>> >>>>> Ah, yes, nice idea. Il'll send you mine asap. >>>> >>>> On the other hand, thinking about this a bit more, I wonder whether >>>> this may be counterproductive, sound a bit like an "excusatio non >>>> petita" and convey the opposite message. Can you imagine a page >>>> like this on the R website? > To be honest, I haven't thought about this perspective at all before. > I spoke to 3 people this afternoon about this. All of them like the > idea very much. R, Matlab and other well-known competitors don't need > such advertisement anymore. Gretl, instead, faces some kind of > asymmetric information issue: Potential users may not be aware of its > capabilities and they want to see some "seal of quality". Showing > people some publication record may be such a "seal of quality". How about some kind of "Hall of Fame", instead? Thet'd be a list of good-quality papers in which the hansl/gretl combo was used in some non-trivial way.