8 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 9. Directors Signature (Ved underskriften bekræftes det, at beretning og regnskab med tilhørende noter og oversigter indeholder alle relevante oplysninger, som vedrører årets primære aktiviteter i Danmarks Grundforskningsfonds Center for Tidsrækkeøkonometri.) To my knowledge, this report and accounts including notes and entry files comprise all the information concerning CREATES (The Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series). 31 March 2017 Niels Haldrup Danish National Research Foundations Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series, CREATES CREATES Annual Report 2016 The Danish National Research Foundations Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series, CREATES 1 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 1. The Final Year as a DG Center of Excellence This report is the final full year annual report of CREATES Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series. CREATES started its activities as a DG Center of Excellence in April 2007. Following a peer-reviewed 2 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Table 1. Prioritized list of the most prestigious publication sources within CREATES' research area # Journal 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Forth.** Total General Econometrics 1 Econometrica Journal of American Statistical Association 2 3 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 A new field on the research agenda is concerned with the analysis of climate data by use of econometrics tools. Traditionally, statistical methods have played a relatively minor role in climate research and it seems natural to combine econometric time series methods in 4 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Table 2. CREATES affiliates and funding sources, man-years (årsværk), 2016 DG/CREATES Host institution External funding 1 Other sources 2 Total Domestic Research Fellows 1,0 13.6 3.5 0.2 18,3 International Research Fellows 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 Visiting 5 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Figure 1. The development in total number of man-years (årsværk), 2008-2016 40 35 30 25 DG/CREATES 20 Host Institution 15 External Funding 10 5 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Figure 2. The development in man-years (årsværk) for postdoctor 6 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 6. External Funding For the funding period 2007-2017, the Board of the Danish National Research Foundation has granted CREATES approximately DKK 80m CREATES members have been very active in attracting additional funding from various private, public, and international s 7 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 The host institution Department of Economics and Business Economics does not have a gender strategy as such. In connection with job openings, the best candidates, regardless of gender, will be chosen amongst the qualified candidates. Generally, the fields of economics 8 CREATES ANNUAL REPORT 2016 9. Directors Signature (Ved underskriften bekræftes det, at beretning og regnskab med tilhørende noter og oversigter indeholder alle relevante oplysninger, som vedrører årets primære aktiviteter i Danmarks Grundforskningsfonds Center for Tidsrækkeøkonometri.) To my kno