Econometrics and Finance Lunch Group, Spring 2004

This is a schedule from a previous semester!
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Link to Description of thesis prospectus to be defended in third year ( PROSPECTUS )

Link to Triangle Econometrics Workshop (TEW )

Link to Ph.D.  thesis of the  2002 Zellner Award Winner (Arie Beresteanu, Duke Faculty Member)  (ZELLNER-2002).

Links to Ph.D.  theses of the  2001 Zellner Award Co-winners (Monika Piazzesi, Stanford and Mike Chernov, Penn State ) (ZELLNER-2001) and 2003 winner J. G. Kim  (ZELLNER-2003) .

See  Zellner Award for details on the award.

Links to previous schedules:

2004 Spring 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

Our main objective: JOB$ for Ph.D. students, preferably with many $...000s in the salary (We are unabashed).

Our motto: "We may not be as smart as the theoreticians, but we can outwork them!"

Our acronyms (in birth order): GARCH    SNP    EMM    EDF ...  ??? (under construction) ..
 

Presenters, Spring Semester, 2004:

January 5: Students only
January 12: Alessandro Palandri  Slides
January 19: Students only
January 26:  Canceled due to weather

February 2: Xin Huang (prospectus defense)  SlidesPaperMovie
February 9: Maxym Dedov (prospectus defense)   SlidesPaper
February 16: Alessandro Palandri (prospectus defense) SlidesPaper
February 23: General discussion of the defenders' future plans and celebrate their successful defenses.

March 1: Dana Kiku
March 8: Students only
March 15: Corsi Fulvio  Slides
March 22: Duy Tran      Slides
March 29: Ming Guo     Slides

April 5: Ed Fang          Slides
April 12: Final defense of Julia Litvinova   Slides  / Meg Cheng (discussion of technical issue that arose in previous presentation)
April 19: Final defenses of Varoujan Khatchatrian   Slides  and Alan Bester  Slides
April 26: S. Viswanathan (joint work with PhD student Bin Wei) Paper