Econometrics and Finance Lunch Group, Spring 2008

Meeting Room: 327 Social Science
Meeting Time for Spring 2008: 11:40 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. (subject to adjustment)

THE SAMSI PICTURES Includes group photo of PhD students with Nobel Laureate Rob Engle

The full schedule is farther below after a list of some relevant links:

Interested students should consult EXPECTATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

Link to Description of the Thesis Prospectus to be defended in third year (PROSPECTUS)

Link to Triangle Econometrics Workshop (TEW) and Duke University Econometrics Workshop

Link to the Zellner Award for the best Ph.D. thesis dealing with an applied problem in Business and Economic Statistics: The Zellner award is intended to recognize outstanding work by promising young researchers in the field. The 2007 award went to Panle Jia, "Entry and Competition in the Retail and Service Industries" at Yale University thesis . The 2006 award went to Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, for his thesis, "Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Models with Multiple Agents;" Stephen P. Ryan, a Duke University PhD student was one of two honorable mentions for his thesis, "Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry.” The 2005 Zellner Award winner was Motohiro Yogo for the thesis "Consumption and Expected Returns.”

Several Duke faculty members, including Han Hong and Arie Beresteanu, have been winners or honorable mentions for this prestigious award. Here are links to the PhD theses of previous Zellner Award winner, Francesca Molinari, and the runner ups, Andrew Patton and Rebecca Hellerstein.

Links to previous schedules:

2007	Spring 2007	Summer 2007	Fall 2007
2006	Spring 2006	Summer 2006	Fall 2006
2005	Spring 2005	Summer 2005	Fall 2005
2004	Spring 2004	Summer 2004	Fall 2004
2003	Spring 2003	Summer 2003	Fall 2003
2002	Spring 2002	Summer 2002	Fall 2002
2001	Spring 2001	Summer 2001	Fall 2001
2000	Spring 2000	Summer 2000	Fall 2000
1999	Spring 1999	Summer 1999	Fall 1999
1998	Spring 1998	Summer 1998	Fall 1998

Slides for talks, arranged as yyyy-mm-dd.pdf:

Slides-2008

Slides-2007

Slides-2006

Slides-2005

Presenters, Spring 2008:

January 7: Students only

January 14: Eric Aldrich

January 21: Students only

January 28: Ivan Shaliastovich

February 4: Natalia Sizova

February 11: Howard Kung, Fuqua

February 18: No workshop, departmental seminar week

February 25: Ivan Shaliastovich and Natalia Sizova

March 3: Eric Aldrich (Prospectus defense)

March 10: Students only

March 17: Natalia Sizova

March 24: Juan Rubio-Ramirez

March 31: Theis Lange (University of Copenhagen)

April 7: Mike Schwert and Baishi Wu

April 14: Brian Jansen and Allison Keane

April 21: Zhongyan Zhu (University of Indiana)

April 28: Mike Schwert

May 5: Ron Gallant

May 12:

May 19:

May 26: Students only

June 2: