Bruce Hansen
198 posts
Bruce Hansen
@BruceEHansen
Professor of Economics at University of Wisconsin, econometrician
Madison, Wisconsin
Joined April 2013
- If you are looking for a holiday present (or two) for someone special....!
- If you are teaching graduate level Econometrics coming year, my new twin textbooks are now available on Kindle. Print copies are scheduled to be ready Aug 16 & 23. The Kindle version can be read on most devices, including phones, and PCs!
- Wow, the U.S. Supreme Court has become radical activist. Sad.
- A beautiful bald eagle just flew by my office window, about 20 meters out. Now I need to go give a lecture on Lasso convergence rates.
- Replying to @CavaliereGiu and @jmwooldridgeCausality is reversed. I put it in my textbook first, and only afterwards wrote it as a separate paper
- I have reached a new threshold with 10,000+ followers! Thanks for listening!
- This morning, the Interactions Conference kicks off at UW in Madison, after a multi-year covid pause. We are excited to host a stellar group of both junior and senior scholars at the nexus of applied and methodological econometrics.
- Replying to @jmwooldridgeJeff, over the past two months I've had a continuing conversation with Steve Portnoy. He is written a follow-up paper exploring conditions under which unbiased must be linear. At first he thought it obvious, but his proof is advanced, and has conditions
- Replying to @jmwooldridgeTwo suggested rules for @jmwooldridge : (1) Never write simulation code in the evenings; (2) Never write simulation code in Stata
- What's a standard error in NOLA stays in NOLA
