Econometrics and Finance Lunch Group, Spring 2009

Meeting Room: Perkins 2-071 (NOTE: Classroom 5 in the Link, Perkins Basement)
Meeting Time for Fall 2008: 11:40 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. (subject to adjustment)

THE SAMSI PICTURES Includes group photo of PhD students with Nobel Laureate Rob Engle

The full schedule is farther below after a list of some relevant links:

Interested students should consult EXPECTATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

Link to Description of the Thesis Prospectus to be defended in third year (PROSPECTUS)

Link to Triangle Econometrics Workshop (TEW) and Duke University Econometrics Workshop

Link to the Zellner Award for the best Ph.D. thesis dealing with an applied problem in Business and Economic Statistics: The Zellner award is intended to recognize outstanding work by promising young researchers in the field. The 2008 winner is Viktor Todorov, a former member of this group now on the faculty at Northwestern University; the 2007 award went to Panle Jia, "Entry and Competition in the Retail and Service Industries" a Yale University thesis. The 2006 award went to Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, for his thesis, "Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Models with Multiple Agents;" Stephen P. Ryan, a Duke University PhD student was one of two honorable mentions in 2006 for his thesis, "Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry.” A list of previous winners along with the theses in electronic format are available at the link.

Other than Viktor-2008 Duke-associated faculty members, including Han Hong (now at Stanford) and Arie Beresteanu, have been winners or honorable mentions for this prestigious award.

Links to previous schedules:

2008	Spring 2008	Summer 2008	Fall 2008
2007	Spring 2007	Summer 2007	Fall 2007
2006	Spring 2006	Summer 2006	Fall 2006
2005	Spring 2005	Summer 2005	Fall 2005
2004	Spring 2004	Summer 2004	Fall 2004
2003	Spring 2003	Summer 2003	Fall 2003
2002	Spring 2002	Summer 2002	Fall 2002
2001	Spring 2001	Summer 2001	Fall 2001
2000	Spring 2000	Summer 2000	Fall 2000
1999	Spring 1999	Summer 1999	Fall 1999
1998	Spring 1998	Summer 1998	Fall 1998

Presenters, Spring 2009:

January 5: Students only

January 12: Eric Aldrich

January 19: Students only

January 26: Barry Rafferty

February 2: Iaryna Grynkiv

February 9: Romeo Tedongap (Visitor from Sweden)

February 16: Ravi Bansal (Fuqua faculty)

February 23: Howard Kung

March 2: Kai Li

March 9: Students only

March 16: Ben Carlston

March 23: Natalia Sizova

March 30: Kai Li

April 6: Natalia Sizova (Final PhD Defense)

April 13: Mohammad Jahan-Parvar

April 20: undergraduate presentations