University of Wisconsin - Madison
Econometrics Seminar 2006-2007

The seminar meets on Fridays at 1:30 in the Morton Room, 7324 Social Science.

Organizer: Bruce Hansen



Date
Speaker
Location 
Title
September 27, 2006 (joint IO/Econometrics workshop) Susumu Imai (Queen's University) Morton Room, 3:45 PM Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
September 29, 2006 Kirstin Hubrich (European Central Bank) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Forecasting economic aggregates by disaggregates (pdf)
October 13, 2006 Jason Wu (UW) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Robust Semiparam7etric Forecast Intervals (pdf)
October 20, 2006 Azeem Shaikh (Chicago/Yale) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Inference for the Identified Set in Partially Identified Econometric Models(pdf) Inference for Identifiable Parameters in Partially Identified Econometric Models (pdf)
October 27, 2006 Joel Horowitz (Northwestern) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Goodness of fit tests for functional data (pdf)
November 3, 2006 Tim Vogelsang (Michigan State University) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Block bootstrap HAC robust tests: The sophistication of the naive bootstrap (pdf)
November 10, 2006 Susanne Schennach (Chicago) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Identification and estimation of nonclassical nonlinear errors-in-variables models with continuous distributions using instruments (pdf)
January 9, 2006 (Tuesday) Michael Jansson (Berkeley) Morton Room, 3:45 PM Optimal Inference for Instrumental Variables Regressions with non-Gaussian Errors (pdf)
February 8, 2007 Brendan Beare (Yale) Morton Room, 3:45 PM Recruiting
April 13, 2007 Shakeeb Khan (Duke) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Irregular Identification, Support Conditions and Inverse Weight Estimation
April 20, 2007 Francesca Molinari (Cornell) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Asymptotic Properties for a Class of Partially Identified Parameters (pdf)
April 27, 2007 Raffaella Giacomini (UCLA) 8411 Social Science, 3:45 PM (Note time change) Model selection and forecast comparison in unstable environments
May 4, 2007 Debopam Bhattacharya (Dartmouth) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Econometric Analysis of Optimal Resource Allocation Problems (pdf)
May 11, 2007 Shin Kanaya (UW) Morton Room, 1:30 PM Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models by nonparametric Filtering


Lunch Seminars
Date
Speaker
Location 
Title
November 14, 2006 Hisa Tanaka Morton Room, 12:00-1:00 TBA
November 28, 2006 Shin Kanaya Morton Room, 12:00-1:00 TBA
December 12, 2006 Ivan Canay Morton Room, 12:00-1:00 TBA
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Hisa Tanaka Morton Room, 12:00-1:00 Nonparametric MLE of the Binary Response Probability Function(pdf)