Como havia prometido em post anterior, segue o artigo do Peter Kennedy (ideas link).
Peter Kennedy também é o autor de A Guide to Econometrics, que é basicamente um compêndio de referência que supre várias lacunas sérias encontradas nos livros-textos de econometria padrão (como Hayashi ou Greene).
Os dez mandamentos são:
1. Thou shalt use common sense and economic theory.
Corollary: Thou shalt not do thy econometrics as thou sayest thy prayers.
2. Thou shalt ask the right questions.
Corollary: Thou shalt place relevance before mathematical elegance.
3. Thou shalt know the context.
Corollary: Thou shalt not perform ignorant statistical analyses.
4. Thou shalt inspect the data.
Corollary: Thou shalt place data cleanliness ahead of econometric godliness.
5. Thou shalt not worship complexity.
Corollary: Thou shalt not apply asymptotic approximations in vain.
Corollary: Thou shalt not talk Greek without knowing the English translation.
6. Thou shalt look long and hard at thy results.
Corollary: Thou shalt apply the laugh test.
7. Thou shalt beware the costs of data mining.
Corollary: Thou shalt not worship R2.
Corollary: Thou shalt not hunt statistical significance with a shotgun.
Corollary: Thou shalt not worship the 0.05 percent significance level.
8. Thou shalt be willing to compromise.
Corollary: Thou shalt not worship textbook prescriptions.
9. Thou shalt not confuse significance with substance.
Corollary: Thou shalt not ignore power.
Corollary: Thou shalt not test sharp hypotheses.
Corollary: Thou shalt seek additional evidence.
10. Thou shalt confess in the presence of sensitivity.
Corollary: Thou shalt anticipate criticism.
Como estou procrastinando pouco (isso é bom), os comentários ficam para algum dia. Mas deixo aqui as respostas de Magnus (ideas link) e Hendry (ideas link).