Econometrics Seminar

Fall 2024

Seminar starts at 1:25 pm or 9:30 am, depending on the speaker’s schedule.

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

Oct 18 1:25pm-2:45pm /

Herbst 337

Sílvia Gonçalves (McGill University)  – supported by Art Wright Fund

“Improved inference for nonparametric regression and regression-discontinuity designs”

Nov 8 1:25pm-2:45pm /

Herbst 337

Benoit Perron (University of Montreal)

“Bootstrap inference for group factor models”

Nov 15 1:25pm-2:45pm /

Herbst 337

Tae-Hwy Lee (UC Riverside)

“Forecast Encompassing and Predictor Selection in High-dimensional Predictive Models”

Spring 2024

Seminar starts at 12:30 pm or 9:00 am, depending on the speaker’s schedule.

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

March 8 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Herbst (Previously Oak) 337

Antonio Galvao (Michigan State University)

Quantile Approach to Intertemporal Consumption with Multiple Assets

March 22 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Herbst 337

Xiye Yang (Rutgers University) – supported by Art Wright Fund

“Influence Function: Local Robustness and Efficiency”

March 29 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Herbst 337

Andrii Babii (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Tensor PCA for Factor Models”

May 3 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Herbst 337

Ke-Li Xu (Indiana University)

Local Projection Based Inference under General Conditions

Fall 2023

Seminar starts at 1:25 pm or 9:30 am, depending on the speaker’s schedule.

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

Oct 6th 1:25pm-2:45pm /

Herbst 337

Ye Lu (University of Sydney)

“Maximum Approximated Likelihood Estimation for Semiparametric Factor Copula Models”

Oct 20th 1:25pm-2:45pm /

Webex

Hyukjun Kwon (Rutgers University)

“Inference for Low-rank Models without Rank Estimation”

Oct 27th 1:25pm-2:45pm /

Herbst 337

Davide Viviano (Harvard University)

“Policy Targeting under Network Interference

Dec 1st 1:25pm-2:45pm /

Herbst 337 & Webex

Jiaqi Wang (University of Connecticut)

“Financial Application of Marcenko-Pastur Law with Time Dependency”

Spring 2023

Seminar starts at 12:30 pm or 9:00 am, depending on the speaker’s schedule.

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

Feb 10th 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Webex

Jackson Lautier (University of Connecticut)

“On the Convergence of Credit Risk in Current Consumer Automobile Loans”

Mar 3rd 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Webex

Brantly Callaway (University of Georgia)

“Difference in differences with time-varying covariates”

Mar 10th 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Herbst 337

Brendan K. Beare (University of Sydney)

Determination of Pareto exponents in economic models driven by Markov multiplicative processes “

& “Wealth distribution and optimal taxation with idiosyncratic investment risk”

Sponsored by Ivy Liu MSQE fund

March 31st 12:30pm-1:50pm /

Webex

Hanbat Jeong (Ohio State University)

“Dynamic network interaction models with robust decision-making”

April 7th 9:00am-10:20am/

Webex

Ryo Okui (University of Tokyo)

“Latent group structure in linear panel data models with endogenous regressors”

Fall 2022

Seminar starts at 1:30 pm or 9:30 am, depending on the speaker’s schedule.

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

Sep 16th 1:00pm-2:20pm /

In-person at Herbst 337

Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt University) – supported by Ivy Liu MSQE Fund

“Standard Errors for Two-Way Clustering with Serially Correlated Time Effects”

 

Oct 7th 1:30pm-2:50pm /

In-person at Herbst 337

Dong Hwan Oh (Federal Reserve Board) – supported by Art Wright Fund

“Better the Devil You Know: Improved Forecasts from Imperfect Models”

Oct 21st 9:30am-10:40am/

Webex

Wenjie Wang (Nanyang Technological University)

“Wild Bootstrap Inference for Instrumental Variables Regressions with Weak and Few Clusters”

Nov 4th 1:30pm-2:50pm /

In-person at Herbst 337

Simon Freyaldenhoven (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) – supported by Art Wright Fund

“Identification Through Sparsity in Factor Models: the l1-rotation criterion”

Nov 11th 1:30pm-2:50pm /

Webex

Xin Liu (Washington State University)

“Panel Quantile Regression with Time-Invariant Rank”

Dec 2nd 1:30pm-2:50pm /

Webex

Graduate student talk: Ruohan Huang (Job Market Candidate)

“L1-Penalized Estimation and Inference for Misspecified GMM with Spurious Factors”

Dec 9th 12:30pm-1:30pm /

Webex

Graduate student talk: Ziyun Wu (Job Market Candidate)

“Adversarial Generalized Methods of Moments in Asset Pricing”

Dec 9th 1:30pm-2:30pm /

Webex

Graduate student talk: Xuejian Gong (Job Market Candidate)

“Data Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization in Estimation of Login Model”

Spring 2022

Seminar (Online) starts at 1:00 pm

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

February 25th 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

Lina Lu (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

“Quantile Connectedness of the U.S. Interbank Liquidity Risk Network”
March 25 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

Doosoo Kim (Ryerson University)

“Uniformly Efficient Semiparametric Difference-in-differences Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effect”

April 15 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

Ulrich Hounyo (University at Albany, SUNY)

“Misspecification-Robust Bootstrap t-Test for Irrelevant Factor in Linear Stochastic Discount Factor Models”

Fall 2021

Seminar (Online) starts at 1:00 pm

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

October 8th 9:30am – 10:50am /

Webex Herbst 337

Donggyu Kim (College of Business at KAIST)

“Factor and Idiosyncratic VAR-Itô Volatility Models for Heavy-Tailed High-Frequency Financial Data”

October 29th 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

Alessandro Casini (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Theory of Evolutionary Spectra for Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Robust Inference in Possibly Misspecified and Nonstationary Models

November 19th 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

Jungjun Choi (Rutgers University)

“Inferenc for Low-rank Estimation with Application to Treatment Effect Estimation”

December 1st 2:00pm-3:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

Zhenhao Gong (University of Connecticut)

Improved Inference for Interactive Fixed Effects Model with Cross-sectional Dependence

December 8th 2:00pm-3:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

Dingxian Cao (University of Connecticut)

“Inference study on non-stationary Panel AR(P)’s impulse response function”

Spring 2021

Seminar (Online) starts at 1:00 pm

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

March 24th

ECONOMICS & STATISTICS JOINT COLLOQUIUM

4:00pm-5:00pm /

Webex

Andrii Babii (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

“High-dimensional Granger causality tests with an application to VIX and news”

April 2nd 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex Herbst 337

 

Marina Khismatullina (University of Bonn)

Nonparametric comparison of epidemic time trends: the case of COVID-19″

April 30th 10:00am-11:30am/

Webex Herbst 337

Jungyoon Lee (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Consistent Misspecification Testing in Spatial Autoregressive Models

Fall 2020

Seminar (Online) starts at 1:00 pm

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

Sep 18th 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex

Yao Zheng (Department of Statistics at UConn) /

High-dimensional low-rank tensor autoregressive time series modelling

 

Dec 4th 1:00pm-2:20pm /

Webex

 Ruonan Xu (Department of Economics at Rutgers University)/ 

Asymptotic Properties of M-estimators with Finite Populations under Cluster Sampling and Cluster Assignment

Spring 2020

Lunch starts at 12:30pm noon

Date

Time/Location

Presenter / Paper Title

 

March 13th 12:30pm-1:50pm / Herbst 337 Lina Lu (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) / TBA

(Canceled and to be rescheduled in Fall semester)

March 27th 12:30pm-1:50pm / Herbst 337 Yao Zheng (Department of Statistics at UConn) / TBA

(Canceled  and to be rescheduled in Fall semester)

May 1st 12:30pm-1:50pm / Herbst 337 Alex Maynard (University of Guelph) / TBA

(Canceled  and to be rescheduled in Fall semester)

Fall 2019

Lunch starts at 12:30pm noon

Date

Time/Location

Presenter

Paper Title

Oct 4th 1:10pm~2:30pm/

Herbst 337

Sokbae “Simon” Lee

(Columbia University)

”An Econometric Perspective of Algorithmic Sampling”
Oct 23th 3:00pm-4:30pm/Herbst 337 Liyu Dou

(Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Optimal HAR Inference”
Oct 25th 1:10pm~2:30pm/

Herbst 337

Zhonghui Zhang

(University of Connecticut)

 

Graduate students presentations

 

 “Mahalanobis Metric Based Clustering for Fixed Effects Model”
Nov 8th 1:10pm~2:30pm/

Herbst 337

Rui Sun

(University of Connecticut)

Graduate students presentations “Bias-Corrected FE Estimator with Exogenous Variables and Heteroskedasticity in Dynamic Panel Models”
Nov 15th 1:10pm~2:00pm/

Herbst 337

Huarui Jing

(University of Connecticut)

Graduate students presentations 4th year presentation

Spring 2019

Lunch starts at 12:00 noon

Date

Time/Location

Presenter

Paper Title

Feb 1st 12:30pm~1:50pm/

Herbst 337

Myung Hwan Seo

(Seoul National University)

”Factor-Driven Two-Regime Regression ”
March 8th 12:30pm~1:50pm/

Herbst 337

Byunghoon Kang

(Lancaster University)

” Criteria Based Model Averaging ”
March 29th 12:30pm~1:50pm/

Herbst 337

David Kreutter

(Kreutter Life Sciences Consulting, LLC)

Invited talk for MSQE students

“Careers in Data Analytics”

April 19th 12:30pm~1:50pm/

Herbst 337

Atsushi Inoue

(Vanderbilt University)

” “The uniform validity of impulse response inference in autoregressions.” ”
May 3rd 12:30pm~1:50pm/

Herbst 337

Yoonseok Lee

(Syracuse University)

” Nonparametric Sample Splitting ”

Fall 2018

Lunch starts at 12:00 noon

Date

Time/Location

Presenter

Paper Title

Oct 12th 12:30pm~1:50pm/

Herbst 337

Juwon Seo

(National University of Singapore)

” Randomization Tests for Equality in Dependence Structure ”
Oct 17th

(Wed.)

2:00pm-3: 50pm/

Herbst 337

Liangjun SU

(Singapore Management University)

” Estimation and Inference for Three-Dimensional Factor Models ”
Oct 24th

(Wed.)

2:00pm-3: 50pm/

Herbst 337

Qu Feng

(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

” Structural breaks in heterogeneous panels ”
Nov 30th 12:30pm~1:50pm/

Herbst 337

Yinchu Zhu

(University of Oregon)

“An Exact and Robust Conformal Inference Method for Counterfactual and Synthetic Controls”
Dec 5th

(Wed.)

2:00pm-3: 50pm/

Herbst 337

Rui Sun (UCONN) /

Zhonghui Zhang (UCONN)

“Bias-Corrected Estimators in the Dynamic Panel Data Model”/”Mahalanobis Metric Based Clustering for Fixed Effects Model”

Spring 2018

All seminars are held in Herbst 337 unless otherwise noted.

Lunch starts at 12:00 noon

Date

Time

Presenter

Paper Title

2/09/2018 12:20 – 1:50
Yoosoon Chang
(Indiana University Bloomington)
“U.S. Monetary-Fiscal Regime Changes in the Presence of Endogenous Feedback in Policy Rules”
2/23/2018 12:20 – 1:50
(MIT)
“Identification of and correction for publication bias”
3/2/2018 12:20 – 1:50
Kyungchul (Kevin) Song
( University of British Columbia)
“Ordering-Free Inference from Locally Dependent Data”
3/11~3/17, 2018
Spring Recess
4/20/2018  12:20 – 1:50 Christian B. Hansen 
( The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Targeted Undersmoothing
5/4/2018  12:20 – 1:50 Benoit Perron (University of Montreal ) Bootstrapping factor models with cross sectional dependence

Fall 2017

All seminars are held in Herbst 337 unless otherwise noted.

Lunch starts at 12:00 noon

 

Date

Time

Presenter

Paper/Presentation Title

9/22/2017 12:30 – 2:00
Yulong Wang
(Syracuse University)
“Inference in the Threshold Model”
9/29/2017 12:30 – 2:00
(University of Waterloo)
“Think Outside the Data Envelopment – an Extreme Value Approach of Efficiency Analysis””
10/13/2017 12:30 – 2:00
David Kaplan
(University of Missouri)
“Smoothed instrumental variables quantile regression, with estimation of quantile Euler equations”
10/27/2017 12:30 – 2:00
(University of Wisconsin – Madison)
 “Robust estimation under many instruments”
11/3/2017 12:30 – 2:00
Jihyung Lee
(University of Illinois –
Urbana-Champaign)
Quantilograms under Strong Dependence
11/10/2017 12:30 – 2:00
Dr. Arun Bhattacharya
(Director, Commercial Assessments and Forecasting at Pfizer)
 Invited talk for MSQE students

“Big Data Analysis in Industry and Business: What, How, and Why”

11/17/2017 12:30-2:00
(University at Albany – SUNY)
“Forecast Combination for Binary Targets”

 

 

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