ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The article presents information on various meetings to be held, related to the field of econometrics. Then Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society will be held at University College London, London, from August 18-24, 2005. The congress is open to all economists, including those who are not now members of the Econometric Society. It is hoped that papers presented at the Congress will represent a broad spectrum of applied and theoretical economics and econometrics. The 2006 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society will be hosted by the Economics Department of the University of Minnesota and will be held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, from June 22-25, 2006. The program will consist of contributed and invited papers. The 2006 Econometric Society Australian Meetings will be held from July 4-7, 2006 at the Alice Springs Convention Centre, Alice Springs. This is a unique location for the event, in Central Australia, an ideal launching site for seeing the exceptional World Heritage sites of Uluru and Kakadu National Parks as well as the stunning local environments.