The IIF has elected a new President to the board of directors. Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera, Professor of Economics at University of California, Riverside, will begin her new role as President beginning May 1, 2016. (photo: Mohsen Hamoudia, current President, and Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera) [...]
Please join the IIF in welcoming a new Distinguished Researcher and Fellow to the Institute. Philip Hans Franses is Professor of Applied Econometrics and Professor of Marketing Research, both at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 2006 he serves as the Dean of the Erasmus [...]
Forecasting in a changing environment”, Universidad Internacional Menedez y Pelayo (UIMP)’s Summer Course, Santander, Spain 13-15 July 2015 From the 13th to the 15th of July, 2015, the IIF has partially sponsored a workshop during the Universidad Internacional Menedez y Pelayo (UIMP)’s [...]
The 15th International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) Workshop on Tourism Forecasting was held in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 29 June. The workshop was jointly organized by Haiyan Song and George Athanasopoulos, both [...]
(Crossposted from Hyndsight) Today at the International Symposium on Forecasting, I announced the awards for the best paper published in the International Journal of Forecasting in the period 2012-2013. We make an award every two years to the best paper(s) published in [...]
For the thirteenth year, the International Institute of Forecasters, in collaboration with SAS, is proud to announce financial support for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for the 2015-2016 year will be (2) $5,000 grants. [...]
The 14th IIF workshop “ICT and Innovation Forecasting: from theory to practice and applications” organized by Mohsen Hamoudia (Orange) and Jeroen Rombouts (ESSEC), was held in Paris, 27-28 May 2015. This was the second workshop in this area following on from the [...]
International Conference on “Frontiers in Forecasting” Meets in Riverside June 21-24 UC Riverside economist chairs the event that includes Google chief economist as keynote speaker By Bettye Miller On JUNE 5, 2015 Gloria González-Rivera, UCR professor of economics, is the general chair [...]
The International University Menendez y Pelayo (UIMP) jointly with International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) is organizing a course on Forecasting for the UIMP summer program. The course will take place at the Palacio de la Magdalena. The course will include a general [...]
(Reproduced from the Hyndsight blog) The following papers have been nominated for the best paper published in the International Journal of Forecasting in 2012-2013. I have included an excerpt from the nomination in each case. The papers in bold have been short-listed [...]