This week, I made my first poster. Although I’ve been an aca­d­e­mic for more than 20 years, I’ve never had to make a poster before. Some of my coau­thors have made posters about our joint research, and two of them have even won prizes (although I can’t take any credit for them). But this week, our depart­ment is dis­play­ing posters from all research staff about our recent work. Here is my poster (click for pdf ver­sion): It was done using beamer which turns out to be as good for posters as it is for slides. I used the beam­er­poster pack­age which comes with a few themes. None of the themes were quite what I wanted, so I adapted one. Here it is in case any­one else wants to use it. I’ve also made a tem­plate based on the poster above.

I have updated my LaTeX tem­plates for use at Monash so they no longer depend on HyTeX. Tem­plates are pro­vided for pro­duc­ing a work­ing paper and a PhD the­sis in the Depart­ment of Econo­met­rics & Busi­ness Sta­tis­tics at Monash Uni­ver­sity. Peo­ple at other uni­ver­si­ties are wel­come to adapt the tem­plates for their own insti­tu­tions. The style files and Monash crest are pro­vided here. This should be unzipped in a direc­tory on the Mik­TeX search path; for exam­ple, in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex. Monash work­ing paper. Here is a tem­plate. You will need to pro­vide the work­ing paper num­ber (ask Elke) and some JEL codes. See an exam­ple of its use. Monash the­sis. Here is a tem­plate. You should be able to fig­ure the rest out your­self! Here is an exam­ple of what it looks like. Sem­i­nar slides. Here is a tem­plate based on the beamer pack­age. Here are some exam­ples of slides based on this template.