Econometrics Seminars at UIUC

Academic Year 2015-16





Spring 2016


April 1 (Friday) Frank Schorfheide (UPenn)
7 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Identifying Long-Run Risks: A Bayesian Mixed-Frequency Approach.
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April 8 (Friday) Yuichi Kitamura (Yale)
7 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Estimating Conditional Moment Restriction Models under Measurement Error with Unknown Distribution.
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April 15 (Friday) Andrew Patton (Duke)
7 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Dynamic Models for Expected Shortfall (and Value-at-Risk).
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April 22 (Friday) Siddhartha Chib (Olin Business School)
(Canceled) 7 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
TBA.


May 13 (Friday) Marcelo J. Moreira (Fundacao Getulio Vargas)
7 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
"Optimal Two-Sided Tests for Instrumental Variables Regression with Heteroskedastic and Autocorrelated Errors".


Fall 2015


Sep 18 (Friday) Atsushi Inoue (Vanderbilt)
215 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Quasi Bayesian Model Selection
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Sep 25 (Friday) Ronald Gallant (Penn State)
215 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Bayesian Estimation of Structural Models using Moment Conditions
Paper and Slides
Reflections on the Probability Space Induced by Moment Conditions with Implications for Bayesian Inference
Paper and Slides and Reply and Addendum
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Oct 2 (Friday) Xu Cheng (UPenn)
215 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Shrinkage Estimation of High-Dimensional Factor Models with Structural Instabilities.
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Oct 16 (Friday) Alex Poirier (Iowa)
215 DKH 3:30 - 5:00PM
A Quantile Correlated Random Coefficients Panel Data Model.
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Nov 13 (Friday) Davide Pettenuzzo (Brandeis)
7 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Bond Return Predictability: Economic Value and Links to the Macroeconomy.
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Dec 4 (Friday) Drew Creal (Chicago Booth)
7 DKH, 3:30 - 5PM
Interest Rate Uncertainty and Economic Fluctuations.
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