Preface

Abstract

On March 24, 2012, we had one of the greatest surprises of our lives. We walked into the Lod Cook Conference Center on the LSU campus, to find scores of people, including our friend, mentor and major Professor Stanley R. Johnson, and many old colleagues and students. This event, in honor of the 30th volume of Advances in Econometrics, was engineered by our friend Dek Terrell, with the aide of his spouse, Dannielle Lewis, our spouses Nancy Fomby and Melissa Waters, Julianna Richard of LSU, Daniel Millimet of SMU, and our former Emerald Press editor Emma Whitfield. True to our nature we were oblivious to the nine months of planning and work that had gone into preparing the event. These cunning and diabolical people, obviously skilled in hiding the truth and keeping poker faces through it all, had organized a surprise conference! Not a birthday party, not a dinner, but a weekend conference with participants from all over the world! We are amazed, and honored.

Citation

Fomby, T.B. and Carter Hill, R. (2012), "Preface", Terrell, D. and Millimet, D. (Ed.) 30th Anniversary Edition (Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 30), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xv-xvi. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-9053(2012)0000030004