Author: Marcin Błażejowski

Invited speakers:

• Special Guest and Keynote Speaker: James G. MacKinnon, Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Econometrics, Queen’s University
• Allin Cottrell, Wake Forest University
• Riccardo “Jack” Lucchetti, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Scientific Committee:

• Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza  – Chair, Departamento de Economía Aplicada III (Econometría y Estadística), University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
• R. Carter Hill, Department of Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
• Thomas B. Fomby, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
• Marcin Błażejowski, WSB University in Toruń, Poland
• Sven Schreiber, Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung (IMK), Düsseldorf, Germany

Local Organizing Committee:

• Lee C. Adkins, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, USA.
• James R. Fain, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, USA.
• Mary N. Gade, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, USA.
• Mandy McKinney, Center for Executive and Professional Development, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, USA

The conference was oriented to everybody willing to support and spread the use of open-source econometric and statistic software. The matters of the conference were specially centered in:

• using gretl
• developing gretl (including writing functions packages)
• solving some interesting statistic and/or econometric problems with gretl
• and all the rest topics concerning gretl and open source econometric software

The keynote speakers were:

• Jacek Osiewalski, Cracow University of Economics
• Allin Cottrell, Wake Forest University
• Riccardo “Jack” Lucchetti, Università Politecnica delle Marche

The Organizing Committee:

• Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza, Departamento de Economía Aplicada III (Econometría y Estadística), University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
• Sven Schreiber, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• Tadeusz Kufel, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

The Scientific Committee:

• Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza – Chair, Departamento de Economía Aplicada III (Econometría y Estadística), University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
• Lee C. Adkins, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, United States of America
• Javier Fernández-Macho, Department of Econometrics and Statistics, University of the Basque Country, Spain