Sixth Annual Boneyard Econometrics Conference

Department of Economics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 14-15, 2017

       

Day 1

Friday 14th. Room 7 DKH

1:30 - 3:10

Session 1

Median Stable Distributions and Schröder's Equation
Gib Bassett
Testing for Slope Heterogeneity Bias in Panel Data Models
Ted Juhl
Mincer-Zarnowitz Quantile and Expectile Regressions for Forecast Evaluations under Aysmmetric Loss Functions
Pin Ng
Detecting Accounting Misstatements: A Multivariate Quantile Regression Approach
Jungmo Yoon

3:10 - 3:30

Break

3:30 - 5:10

Session 2

Edgeworth's Time Series Simulator: Not AR(1) But Same Covariance Structure
Steve Portnoy
Inference in Constrained Quantile Regression
Tom Parker
Testing for Marginal Effects in Quantile Regression
Judy Wang
The Sorted Effects Method: Discovering Heterogeneous Effects Beyond Their Averages
Victor Chernozhukov

Day 2

Saturday 15th. Room 317 DKH

9:30 - 11:30

Session 3

Smoothed GMM for Quantile Models, with Estimation of Quantile Euler Equations
Antonio Galvao
Common Correlated Effects Estimation of Heterogeneous Dynamic Panel Quantile Regression Models
Carlos Lamarche
Homophily and Community Structure
Angelo Mele
Portfolio Construction By Quantiles: An Alternative To Mean-Variance Approach
Lingjie Ma
Placebo Inference on Treatment Effects when the Number of Clusters is Small
Andreas Hagemann

11:30 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:40

Session 4

The Effect of Diversification on Firm Value
Zhijie Xiao
Period Hunting in Time Series via Regularization
Ivan Mizera
Conditional Quantile Processes in Some Semi-parametric Models
Zhongjun Qu
Quantile Regression in Genetic Studies
Ying Wei

2:40 - 3:00

Break

3:00 - 4:40

Session 5

Estimating Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Assignment Variable
Chung-Ming Kuan
Multiple Testing for Positive Treatment Effects
Jiaying Gu
Distributed Inference for Quantile Regression Processes
Stanislav Volgushev
Predictive Performance of Quantile Regression
Xuming He