Econometrics Workshops - Spring 2013

Workshops are held every Friday (unless otherwise indicated) from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.at Rice University, Baker Hall, Room 116, 1st Floor.


Thursday, January 24: Junrong Liu (Rice University)
"Bayesian treatment to Panel Data models" 


Friday, January 25: Robert Whitelaw (New York University)
"A New Look at the Forward Premium Puzzle" 


Friday, February 8: Sarah Zubairy (Bank of Canada)
"Are Government Spending Multipliers Greater During Periods of Slack? Evidence from 20th Century Historical Data"


Friday, February 22: Yanqin Fan (Vanderbilt University)
"A Direct Approach to Inference in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Quantile Regression Models" 


Fri-Sat, February 23-24: Texas Econometrics Camp. Keynote Speaker: Elie Tamer (Northwestern University)


Friday, March 1: Spring Break 


Friday, March 8: Adam McCloskey (Brown University)
"Bonferroni-based Size-correction for Nonstandard Testing Models" 


Friday, March 22: Xiaohong Chen (Yale University) Seminar Cancelled


Friday, March 29: Spring Recess


Tuesday, April 2: Matthew Shum (California Institute of Techonology) Recently Scheduled!
"From the Lab to the Field: the Design and Performance of an Information Aggregation Mechanism Inside Intel"


Friday, April 5: Michael Jansson (University of California, Berkley)
"Bootstrapping Kernel-Based Semiparametric Estimators"


Friday, April 19: Yiguo Sun (University of Guelph)
"Semiparametrically Modified OLS and IV Estimators for Linear Cointegrating Models"


If you have any questions please email Natalia Sizova or call 713-348-5613.

Fall Semester:   2002,  2003,  2004,  2005,  2006,  2007,  2008,  2009,  2010, 2011,  2012

Spring Semester:   2003,  2004,  2005,  2006,  2007,  2008,  2009,  2010,  2011,  2012,