Our research team just won first runner up at macroprudential competition held by Bank Indonesia. Our research is about Property cycle indicator. This research is good as we can predict the residential price of Indonesia 3.8 months ahead with probabilities of 86%.

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This is my favorite reading list for November 2016.

1. 10 Killer Ab Workouts That Aren’t Crunches (http://time.com/4159440/plank-moves/?xid=tcoshare)
2. Forcing People To Choose Is Paternalistic (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862694)
3. How to Respond When You’re Left Out of Important Meetings (https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-respond-when-youre-left-out-of-important-meetings)
4. Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166149)
5. Ten simple rules for structuring papers (http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/28/088278)
6. The great divergence (http://www.economist.com/news/business/21709976-group-elite-firms-has-established-sustained-lead-not-good-thing-great?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/schumpeterthegreatdivergence)
7. The Perils of Empathy (http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-perils-of-empathy-1480689513)
8. The search goes on – How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values (http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21709520-west-has-gained-lot-christianity-there-still-more-learn-search-goes?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/christianityandhistorythesearchgoeson)
9. Transforming Cities: Does Urbanization Promote Democratic Change? (http://www.nber.org/papers/w22860)
10. What to consider when choosing which journal to submit your paper (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/11/10/choose-your-journal-carefully/)
11. Why a strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy (http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21711041-rise-greenback-looks-something-welcome-ignore-central-role?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/)

In accounting and finance (and indeed in other research areas too), there is a possibility for having a categorical dependent variable. For instance, research in auditor opinion or efficiency or board size determinants makes our dependent variable to be binary. However, we are afraid that there is no variance in our categorical dependent variables due to our panel data set. Then the question is “Can we run panel logistic regression?”

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Tulisan ini sebenarnya ditulis pas Hari Buruh. Terus ke delete postingannya. Hahaha…

Enjoy!

Jalan Berliku Buruh di Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN

Rayenda Khresna Brahmana

Hari buruh seharusnya bukan sekedar isu upah minimum ataupun isu buruh kontrak. Tarik menarik antara serikat buruh, pemerintah, dan industri tentang upah layak hidup seorang buruh membuat kita lupa pada hal yang jauh lebih penting lagi: posisi buruh Indonesia di Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA)

MEA sejatinya akan membentuk negara negara ASEAN sebagai pasar terintegrasi di sektor sektor prioritas, dan menjadi basis produksi yang kompetitif. Untuk menjadi produsen yang kompetitif ini, MEA belum memfasilitasi mobilitas buruh antar negara ASEAN, dan hanya menyediakan fasilitas mobilitas ketenagakerjaan kepada pekerja berprofesi (professional labour), dan ini pun terbatas pada bidang keinsinyuran (engineering), kebidanan, arsitektur, kedokteran, kedokteran gigi, pariwisata, penyelidikan (surveying), dan akuntansi. Ini artinya MEA hanya memberi kebebasan pergerakan para profesional dari negara anggota ASEAN untuk bekerja di negara ASEAN lainnya. Misalnya saja, arsitek dari Vietnam difasilitasi oleh pemerintah Indonesia untuk bekerja di Jakarta. Bisa juga dokter dari Laos difasilitasi pemerintah Malaysia untuk bekerja di Kuala Lumpur. Sementara itu, buruh ketrampilan rendah atau buruh kasar (low-skilled labour) tidak tercakup dalam fasilitas mobilisasi tenaga kerja di era MEA.

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1. DART – Doctoral Program in Accounting, Reporting, and Taxation (https://inomics.com/dart-%E2%80%93-doctoral-program-accounting-reporting-and-taxation-graz-1)
2. PhD Scholarship in Finance and Banking Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (https://inomics.com/phd-scholarship-finance-and-banking)
3. Oikos PhD Fellowship on “Finance and Sustainability” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (https://inomics.com/oikos-phd-fellowship-%E2%80%9Cfinance-and-sustainability%E2%80%9D-university-zurich-switzerland)
4. PhD Scholarships in Economics, Finance and Managment at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) (https://inomics.com/phd-scholarships-economics-finance-and-managment-universiti-brunei-darussalam-ubd)
5. Fully funded Economics studentships available at the University of Edinburgh (https://inomics.com/fully-funded-economics-studentships-available-university-edinburgh-edinburgh)
6. PhD in energy economics City University of Hong Kong (https://inomics.com/phd-energy-economics)
7. PhD Scholarships in Finance Vienna Graduate School of Finance (https://inomics.com/phd-scholarships-finance)
8. Scholarships for Postgraduate Studies in Economics University of Milan (https://inomics.com/scholarships-postgraduate-studies-economics)
9. PhD scholarship: Behavioural Economics Queensland University of Technology (https://inomics.com/phd-scholarship-behavioural-economics)
10. PhD position in Behavioural/Experimental Economics and Disasters University of Newcastle (UoN) in Australia (https://inomics.com/phd-position-behaviouralexperimental-economics-and-disasters)

Sources: inomics.com

This is my favorite reading list for OCTOBER 2016.

1. Anthony Bourdain on the One Type of Food You Should Never Eat (http://time.com/4325309/anthony-bourdain-airplane-food/?xid=tcoshare)
2. Fair Game? How many average workers’ salaries does it take to pay the CEO? (http://danariely.com/2016/10/17/fair-game-how-many-average-workers-salaries-does-it-take-to-pay-the-ceo-2/)
3. Open Research for Academics: how to be an academic in the twenty-first century (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/10/25/open-research-for-academics-how-to-be-an-academic-in-the-twenty-first-century/)
4. Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors. (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/02/04/student-evaluations-of-teaching-gender-bias/)
5. The link between avocados and crime (http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/10/economist-explains-9)
6. The problem with p-values (https://aeon.co/essays/it-s-time-for-science-to-abandon-the-term-statistically-significant)
7. The value of gun-toting film stars (http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-chart-15?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/thevalueofguntotingfilmstars)
8. Why African cities don’t make their residents richer (http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/10/economist-explains-1?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/whyafricancitiesdontmaketheirresidentsricher)
9. Why do females avoid maths, even if it boosts their careers? (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2016/10/04/why-do-females-avoid-maths-even-if-it-boosts-their-careers/?utm_content=buffer6f792&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

Pada tanggal 14 dan 15 oktober 2016, saya diundang oleh program Doktoral Universitas Tanjungpura untuk memberikan pelatihan/lokakarya mengenai data time series dan panel. Pelatihan ini melingkupi dynamic time series and panel. Mulai dari Cointegration, VECM, ARDL, VAR, Impulse Response, Variance Decomposition, sampai ke panel GMM, Arrelano and Bond Test, Levin and Lin Test, Im, Pesaran and Shin Test, Panel Pedroni Cointegration test, dam Dynamics OLS (DOLS) Long Run Estimation lainnya.

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