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ECON 242

Seminar in Econometrics
Spring 2004
Instructor: James L. Powell
E-mail:
639 Evans Hall
Schedule: Thursday 4-6 pm
                   
January 29 Organizational Meeting
 
February 5 Michael Jansson , University of California, Berkeley
  "Optimal Inference in Regression Models with Nearly Integrated Regressors"
February 12 Greg Duncan , University of California, Berkeley
  "Unbiased Simulators of Analytic Functions and Maximum Unbiased Simulated Likelihood Estimation"
February 19 Guido Imbens , University of California, Berkeley
  "Random Arrival of Children and the Impossibility of Seminar Presentation"
February 26 Joint with Departmental seminar
 
March 4 Xiaohong Chen , New York University
  "Estimation of Semiparametric Copula-Based Time Series Models"
March 11 Aprajit Mahajan , Stanford University
  "Misclassified Regressors in Binary Choice Models"
March 18 Joint with Departmental seminar
 
March 25 Spring Break
 
April 1 Joint with Departmental seminar
 
April 8 Edward Vytlacil , Stanford University
  "Dummy Endogenous Variables in Weakly Separable Models"
(with Appendix)
* April 19 Andrew Harvey , Cambridge University
  "Testing for Convergence in Income and Prices"
(* Note: Monday seminar, 2-4pm, 639 Evans)
April 22 Massimiliano Marcellino , Bocconi University
  "A Parametric Estimation Method for Dynamic Factor Models of Large Dimension"
April 29 Ivana Komunjer , California Institute of Technology
  "Conditional Quantile Estimation"
May 6 No Meeting
 
*May 20 Victor Chernozhukov , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Quantile Regression under Misspecification (with an Application to the U.S. Wage Structure)" (* Note: Friday seminar, 2-4pm, 608-7 Evans)
*June 3 Hidehiko Ichimura , University College London
  "Computation Of Asymptotic Distribution For Semiparametric GMM Estimators" (* Note: Thursday seminar, 2-4pm, 608-7 Evans)

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