International Institute of Forecasters

Grants and Research Awards

SAS/IIF Grant to Promote Research on Forecasting

For the seventh year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The awards will be (2) two $5,000 grants. Applications should be submitted to the IIF Office by September 30, 2009. For more information on this grant opportunity, click here.

This grant was created in 2002 by the IIF, with financial support from the SAS® Institute, in order to promote research on forecasting principles and practice. The fund provided amounts to US $10,000 per year, which is divided to support research in the two basic aspects of forecasting: development of theoretical results and new methods, and practical applications with real-world comparisons.

In the first cycle (2003-2004) three projects were supported by the grant. Since then, only two research projects per year have received support.

2007-2008

Grant awarded to Eric Bélanger, Department of Political Science, McGill University; Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Department of Political Science,
University of Iowa; and Richard Nadeau, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, for their project proposal "Improving Election
Forecasting in the United Kingdom."
Grant awarded to Gloria González-Rivera, Department of Economics, University of California - Riverside, for her project proposal "Evaluation
of Multidimensional Predictive Densities."

2006-2007

Grant awarded to Carolina García-Martos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and María Jesús Sánchez and Julio Rodríguez Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, "Unobserved Component Model for Forecasting Electricity Prices and Their Volatilities"
Grant awarded to Barbara Rossi, Duke University, "New Methods for Forecasting and Model Evaluation"

2005-2006

Grant awarded to Sven Krone, Lancaster University, Management School, UK, and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Manchester Business School, UK, "Automatic Modeling and Forecasting with Neural Networks - A Forecasting Competition Evaluation"
Grant awarded to Pilar Poncela, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Eva Senra, Universidad de Alcala, Spain "Combining Forecasts Through Factor Models: Assessing Consensus and Uncertainty"

2004-2005

Grant awarded to Peter Zhang, Georgia State University, USA, and Douglas M. Kline, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA, "Quarterly Times Series Forecasting"
Grant awarded to Ting Yu, University of Technology at Sydney, Australia, "Incorporating Prior Domain Knowledge in Machine Learning"

2003-2004

Grant awarded to Kesten Green, Business and Economic Forecasting Unit, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, "Assessing Probabilistic Forecasts"
Grant awarded to Brajendra Sutradhar, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, "Best Practice Recommendation for Forecasting Counts"
Grant awarded to Min Qi, Kent State University, USA, and G. Peter Zhang, Georgia State University, USA, "Trend Time Series Modeling and Forecasting with Neural Networks"

Travel Awards for the International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF)
The International Institute of Forecasters offers travel award grants to qualified applicants to attend the annual ISF held each spring by the IIF. The awards are primarily for students and forecasters, regardless of country of origin. This financial support is intended to supplement other sources of funding and will not typically cover all expenses. Evidence of financial need will be taken into account as well as support gained from other sources. More info

International Symposium on Forecasting
Hong Kong
June 21-24, 2009

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