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Grants and Research Awards
SAS/IIF Grant to Promote Research on Forecasting
For the eighth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The awards will be (2) two $5,000 grants. Applications should be submitted to the IIF Office by September 30, 2010. For more information on this grant opportunity, click here.

This grant was created in 2002 by the IIF, with financial support from the SAS® Institute,
in order to promote research on forecasting principles and practice. The fund provided amounts to
US $10,000 per year, which is divided to support research in the two basic aspects of forecasting:
development of theoretical results and new methods, and practical applications with real-world comparisons.

In the first cycle (2003-2004) three projects were supported by the grant. Since then, only two research
projects per year have received support.

2008-2009
- Grant awarded to Carlos Mate, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid for the project proposal in the category of Methodology "The Practice of Forecasting using Bayesian Model Averaging and Bayesian Nonparametrics (FORBA_MANP)."
- Grant awarded to Hossein Hassani and Anatoly Zhigljavsky, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University; Saeed Heravi, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University for the project proposal in the category of Applications "Forecasting European Industrial Production with Multivariate Singular Spectrum Analysis”
2007-2008
- Grant awarded to Eric Bélanger, Department of Political Science, McGill University; Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Department of Political Science,
University of Iowa; and Richard Nadeau, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, for their project proposal "Improving Election
Forecasting in the United Kingdom."
- Grant awarded to Gloria González-Rivera, Department of Economics, University of California - Riverside, for her project proposal "Evaluation
of Multidimensional Predictive Densities."
2006-2007
2005-2006
- Grant awarded to Sven Krone, Lancaster University, Management School, UK, and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos,
Manchester Business School, UK, "Automatic Modeling and Forecasting with Neural Networks - A Forecasting
Competition Evaluation"
- Grant awarded to Pilar Poncela, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Eva Senra, Universidad de Alcala,
Spain "Combining Forecasts Through Factor Models: Assessing Consensus and Uncertainty"
2004-2005
2003-2004
- Grant awarded to Kesten Green, Business and Economic Forecasting Unit, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, "Assessing Probabilistic Forecasts"
- Grant awarded to Brajendra Sutradhar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, "Best Practice
Recommendation for Forecasting Counts"
- Grant awarded to Min Qi, Kent State University, USA, and G. Peter Zhang, Georgia State University,
USA, "Trend Time Series Modeling and Forecasting with Neural Networks"
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