IIF Distinguished Lecture Series continues! Join us as we welcome Professor Haiyan Song from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, to continue in January 2027 during the fourth year of this initiative. Instructor: Prof. Haiyan Song, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The [...]
The 3rd Annual IIF Forecasting Practice Competition is currently accepting applications. Are you proud of your team's forecasting work and the impact you have achieved? Gather your team members and submit your application now! Applications will now be accepted through November 15, [...]
The MacroForecasting Seminar Series presents: Frictional Forecasts, with Lora Pavlova (ZEW Mannheim) on November 10, 3:30pm CET. To attend, complete the registration form below:
As part of our ongoing effort to foster research collaboration and highlight emerging academic talent in the forecasting community, we periodically share recruitment portals and candidate listings from partner affiliations. This week, we are sharing the Job Market Candidates website for the [...]
The 3rd Annual IIF Forecasting Practice Competition is currently accepting applications. Are you proud of your team's forecasting work and the impact you have achieved? Gather your team members and submit your application now! Applications will be accepted through November 1, 2026. [...]
In 2015, Professor Robert Fildes and Geoff Allen published an online bibliography on business and economic forecasting with Oxford University Press, last updated in 2023. OUP has invited a further update, and Robert is looking for a collaborator to join the project. [...]
The MacroForecasting Seminar Series presents: Blockwise Boosted Inflation: Non-linear determinants of inflation using machine learning , with Galina Potjagailo (Bank of England) on October 27, 3:30pm CET. To attend, complete the registration form below:
For the 24th year, the IIF, in collaboration and with financial support from SAS®, is proud to announce financial grants for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. This grant was created in 2003 by the IIF, with [...]
The MacroForecasting Seminar Series presents: Trend Filtering with Fractional Splines , with Tommaso Proietti (University of Rome Tor Vergata) on October 6, 3:30pm CEST. To attend, complete the registration form below: The schedule for the remainder of the term is [...]
Dr Peter Catt is a New Zealand researcher and forecasting practitioner whose work focuses on forecastability: how much information about a future outcome is available from what is known when a forecast is made. He first wrote about forecastability in Foresight: The [...]
