Recent Programs

Ideal Point Estimation Conference
September 20-22, 2002

One of the most important data analytic tools scholars have used to study decision making in legislatures and courts is ideal point models. These models use information about roll call votes, or votes on the merits, to simultaneously estimate the preferred policy position (or ideology) of each actor and the substantive content of each bill or case. In September 2002, the Weidenbaum Center hosted a conference that brought together researchers at the forefront of ideal point estimation. Keith Poole of the University of Houston delivered the keynote address on "The Past and Future of Ideal Point Estimation." The remainder of the conference consisted of research presentations of current work.
Streaming video of Keith Poole's Speech
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State-Space Models, Regime Switching, and Identification
May 10-11, 2002  · Washington University in St. Louis

On May 10th and 11th the Weidenbaum Center and the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis co-sponsored a workshop for leading researchers in applied time series analysis, with James Hamilton as the invited lecturer. Topics of presentations included recent changes in monetary policy implementation, the interaction between monetary policy and financial markets, and the dynamics of business cycle recoveries. For more information, contact James Morley or Jeremy Piger.
Links to Speakers and Papers and Abstracts