The University of the Basque Country,

School of Economics and Business Administration

and Econometrics Research Group

in collaboration with the gretl development team

organized the gretl Conference

held in Bilbao, Spain

May 28-29, 2009

 

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:

- Teaching econometrics and statistics using free software

- Implementation of some econometric techniques in gretl

- Methodological papers with a strong computational emphasis

- Applications carried out in gretl

- Developing gretl

The keynote speakers were:

Stephen Pollock, University of Leicester

Allin Cottrell, Wake Forest University

Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti, Università Politecnica delle Marche