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

 

Spring 2009:

January 14:    Sung Yong Park, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics
“Maximum Entropy Principle with Applications to the GARCH model and Income Distribution,  Paper 1,  Paper 2.

January 16:    Stefan Jacewitz, Texas A&M University. 
A Test of Stock Return Predictability Using the Cauchy t-Ratio in Volatility Time

January 21:    Carol (Wei) Liao, New York University.
Structural Breaks in Panel Data Models: A New Approach.”

January 23:    Santosh Mishra, Oregon State University.
Semiparametric Estimator of Time Series Conditional Variance

February 20:  George Waters, Illinois State University,
Credit Rationing and the Phillips Curve” and “Equilibrium and Meltdown

February 27:  George Selgin, WVU,
Strong Steam, Weak Patents, or, The Myth of Watt's Innovation-Blocking Monopoly, Exploded."

March 6:         Neha Khanna, SUNY-Binghamton
Race, Income Inequality and Mortality in the United States

April 3:           Carlos Martins-Filho, Oregon State University
On the Asymptotic Normality of the Local Polynomial Estimator with Stochastic Bandwidths 

April 17:         Ken Kasa, Simon Fraser University
Learning and Model Validation.”

April 24:         Bruce McGough, Oregon State University
Learning to Optimize.” 

May 1:            Mohitosh Kejriwal, Purdue University
Detecting Multiple Structural Changes in Persistence

 

Fall 2009:

August 28:    

Sept 4:           Home Football Game, Liberty

Sept 11:        

Sept 18:         Ximing Wu, Texas A&M University

Sept 25:         Marcelle Chauvet, University of California, Riverside.

October 2:     Home Football Game, Colorado (Thursday, October 1).

October 9:     Richard Ashley, Virginia Tech.

October 16:   William Branch, University of California, Irvine

October 23:   Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University.

October 30:   Cheng Hsiao, University of Southern California. 

Nov 6:             James Alm, Georgia State University. 

Nov 13:          Aman Ullah, University of California, Riverside

Nov 20:          (Last Day Before Fall Break)

December 4:

December 11: (Last Day of Classes)

 

Links to Previous Seminar Series:

Fall  2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Fall 2006