Seminar Series

Department of Economics

West Virginia University

 (All seminars are 3:30 – 5:00, and in Room 441 B&E, except as noted.)

Coordinator: Stratford Douglas

 

Fall 2009:

Sept 11:         William Neilson, University of Tennessee, "High Scores but Low Skills"

Sept 18:         Ximing Wu, Texas A&M University, "A Data-Driven Weighted Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimator."

October 9:     Richard Ashley, Virginia Tech.
"Apparent Long Memory in Time Series as an Artifact of a Time-Varying Mean: Alternatives to the Fractionally Integrated Model."

October 16:   William Branch, University of California, Irvine,   "A Simple Model of Bubbles and Crashes."

October 23:   Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University, "Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy."

Nov 6:             Ricardo Nunes, Federal Reserve Board of Governors,  Political Disagreement, Lack of Commitment and the Level of Debt

Nov 13:          Aman Ullah, University of California, Riverside, A Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Test for Conditional Heteroskedasticity

Nov 20:          (Last Day Before Fall Break)

December 4: Yee Cheng Loon, Binghamton University.

December 11: (Last Day of Classes)

 

Spring 2010:

January 15:   

January 22:    John Hisnanick, Bureau of the Census

January 29:   

February 5:   

February 12: 

February 19:  William Hoyt, University of Kentucky

February 26:  Marcelle Chauvet, University of California, Riverside.

March 5:         Marla Ripoll, University of Pittsburgh                                                                     

March 12:      Qi Li, Texas A&M University

March 19:      Isao Kamata, University of Wisconsin

March 26:      Last Day Before Spring Break

April 9:           James Alm, Georgia State University

April 16:         Daniel Henderson, Binghamton University

April 23:         Rochelle Edge, Federal Reserve, Board of Governors

April 30:         Jeremy Piger, University of Oregon.  (Last Day of Classes).

 

Links to Previous Seminar Series:

Spring 2009

Fall  2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Fall 2006

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