Econometrics and Finance Lunch Group, Fall 2005

 

THE SAMSI PICTURES: September 19, 2005


Meeting Room: 327 Social Science
Meeting Time for Fall 2005: 11:30 - 1:00 (subject to adjustment)

Available by invitation only to qualified advanced PhD students (EXPECTATIONS AND CRITERIA FOR QUALIFICATION)

Link to Description of thesis prospectus to be defended in third year (PROSPECTUS)

Link to Triangle Econometrics Workshop (TEW)

Link to Duke University Econometrics Workshop (DUKE-ESW)

Link to the  Zellner Award  for the best Ph.D. thesis dealing with an applied problem in Business and Economic Statistics. It is intended to recognize outstanding work by promising young researchers in the field.   The 2005 Zellner Award winner is 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 the 2004 Zellner Award winner, Francesca Molinari, and the runner ups, Andrew Patton and Rebecca Hellerstein. 

Links to previous schedules: 

 

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

Our motto: "We can work as hard as anyone!"

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

 

 

Presenters, Fall 2005:

 

August 29: Max Dedov (PhD research update) Slides           

 

September 5: Students only (mandatory for those here)

                        Bon Voyage and now welcome back to Ale, Viktor, and Tim who gave papers at a major finance

Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark: http://www.econ.ku.dk/fru/conference/

September 12: Faculty preview of student posters for SAMSI workshop (Thanks go to Barbara for her mentorship.)

September 19: SAMSI Opening Workshop

September 26: Max Dedov (PhD research update) Slides           

 

October 3: Uta Kretschmer (visitor from Universität Bonn, Deutschland) Slides           

October 10: Students only (mandatory)

October 17: Xin Huang (job market practice talk)   Slides           

October 24: Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar (PhD research update)            Slides           

October 31: Thomas Busch (visitor from Aarhus Universitet, Danmark)    Slides           

 

November 7: Dana Kiku (job market practice talk)     Slides           

November 14: Alessandro Palandri (job market practice talk)      Slides           

November 21: Max Dedov (job market practice talk)                 Slides           

November 28: Marcus Larson and Mia Holmfeldt (visitors from Sverige)

  

December 5: Ivan Shaliastovich (initial research report) )           Slides           

December 12: Bjorn Eraker

December 19: Students only

December 26: Students only