Department of Economics / FAS and
C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics
Econometrics Student Lunch Seminar
Spring 2008 Schedule

Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in Room 802 of 19 W. 4th St.
Brown bag lunch (sponsored by C.V. Starr Center) is served 10 minutes before the seminar.

Student coordinators: Breno Neri (breno.neri@nyu.edu) and Jau-er Chen (jauer@nyu.edu)
Supervising faculty: Jushan Bai (jushan.bai@nyu.edu)

January 30 Demian Pouzo (dgp219@nyu.edu)
"On The Efficiency of Semiparametric Conditional Moment Models with Possibly Nonsmooth Moments", with Xiaohong Chen (xiaohong.chen@yale.edu).

February 27 Peng Wang (pw513@nyu.edu)
"Structural Factor Models of Large Dimensions: Estimation and Inference", with Jushan Bai (jushan.bai@nyu.edu).

March 26 Jau-er Chen (jauer@nyu.edu)
(Preliminary Draft) "Estimating and Testing Quantile Regression Models with Structural Changes".

April 09 Igor Kheyfets (igor.kheyfets@yale.edu)
"Specification Tests for Nonlinear Time Series Models".

April 23 Breno Neri (breno.neri@nyu.edu)
"Comparing Value-at-Risk Methodologies" and "Omitted Persistence and Conditional Heteroskedasticity", with Luiz Lima (luizr@fgv.br).

May 7 Peng Wang (pw513@nyu.edu)
"Conditional Markov Chain and Its Applications in Economic Time Series Analysis", with Jushan Bai (jushan.bai@nyu.edu).


Reading Group
February 13 Topic: Inverse Problem
Leader: Jau-er Chen (jauer@nyu.edu) and Demian Pouzo (dgp219@nyu.edu)
Carrasco, Florens and Renault, 2007. "Linear Inverse Problems in Structural Econometrics Estimation Based on Spectral Decomposition and Regularization". Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6B.

March 12 Topic: Inverse Problem
Leader: Peng Wang (pw513@nyu.edu)
Carrasco, Florens and Renault, 2007. "Linear Inverse Problems in Structural Econometrics Estimation Based on Spectral Decomposition and Regularization". Ha ndbook of Econometrics, Volume 6B.

Last Update: 04/28/2008