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Econometrics and Finance Lunch Group, Spring 2005

Meeting Room: 327 Social Science
Meeting Time for Spring 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 Zellner Award for details on the award.  Several Duke faculty members 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:

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

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

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

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

Presenters, Spring Semester 2005:

January 10: Xin Huang (PhD research update) Slides

January 17: Students only

January 24: Dana Kiku ( PhD research update) Slides

January 31: Max Dedov ( PhD research update) Slides

February 7: Uta Kretschmer (visitor from Bonn, Germany) Slides

February 14: Alessandro Palandri (PhD research update) Slides

February 21: Duy Tran ( PhD research update) Slides

February 28: Viktor Todorov (PhD research update) Slides

March 7: 11:30-12:30 Javier Mencia (visitor from Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid)

Slides

12:30-1:15 Ming Guo, Final PhD Examination Slides

March 14: Students only

March 21: Dana Kiku ( PhD research update)

March 28: Xin Huang (PhD research update) Slides

April 4: Raffaella Giacomini (visitor from UCLA) Link-to-paper

April 11: Javier Mencia (visitor from Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid)

April 18: Ed Fang, Final PhD Examination Slides

April 25: Max Dedov (PhD research update) Slides

May 2: Duy Tran (PhD research update)

May 9: Viktor Todorov (PhD research update)