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Busy Summer for Financial Economics Professors
Busy Summer for Financial Economics Professors

04 October 2012 10:12AM The Financial Economics Professors have kept very busy this past summer and are maintaining their stride well into the fall semester. Among conferences attended from June to the present are the Second Measuring Risk Conference at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton, CREATES Conference in Denmark, NBER Summer Institute in Boston, SoFiE Conference at Oxford, the annual meeting with the European Finance Association, and the Society for Computational Economics in Prague to name a few.  … read more »

Interview with Professor Tim Bollerslev
Interview with Professor Tim Bollerslev

02 October 2012 3:44PM Professor Tim Bollerslev, a Duke Professor since 1998, has also been an affiliate faculty member at the EDHEC-Risk Institute since its inception in 2008. In June, he traveled to Singapore to teach a Volatility Modeling class at the institute which covered volatility and correlation modeling from ARCH/GARCH models to high-frequency data and volatility modeling and realized volatilities. The following is an interview of Professor Bollerslev by the institute. read more »

Learn What Accountants Really Do
Learn What Accountants Really Do

27 September 2012 3:02PM Accounting is not just for number crunchers. Learn what accountants really do on Friday, Oct. 5th from 12:00 - 1:00pm at the Link, Classroom 5. This public acconting panel is sponsored by the Economics Student Union and will have representatives from major accounting firms. The session will also provide information about a one year Master's program in Accounting at UNC.  read more »

Quantitive Marketing and Economics Conference on October 19 - 20

27 September 2012 10:09AM The 10th annual Quantitative Marketing and Economics Conference will be held at Duke on Friday, Oct. 19  and Saturday, Oct. 20. The registration deadline is Oct. 4. This conference features research at the intersection of marketing, economics, and statistics. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for interaction among researchers in this growing and important area. The conference format will encourage in-depth discussion of research using a "single track," allowing… read more »

Brand New Research Examines Property Values Near Fracking Sites

18 September 2012 2:01PM Professor Christopher Timmins, along with co-authors Lucija Muehlenbachs and Elisheba Spiller, has conducted new research on hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as "fracking." "Shale Gas Development and Property Values: Differences Across Drinking Water Sources" seeks to examine the effects of fracking on the housing market. "The overall lack of research regarding the impacts on property values from proximity to shale gas wells hinders the ability of the government to regulate… read more »

Popular New Fall Course: "Shakespeare & Financial Markets"
Popular New Fall Course: "Shakespeare & Financial Markets"

18 September 2012 9:23AM "The truth is, you're not going to get paid to be smart, you're going to be hired and promoted for being intelligent and adaptive and that's what Shakespeare teaches," says alum John Forlines, creator of "Shakespeare & Financial Markets: Why 'This Time' is Never Different."  Read the full story on this Shakespeare and Economics course from Duke News. read more »

Duke Venture Forward Meeting

04 September 2012 9:45AM Duke Venture Forward (DVF) will be holding an information session for prospective sophomore and junior members. The event will be on Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 6:30PM in Old Chemistry Room 116.   DVF is an organization at Duke University that provides competitively selected sophomore and junior year members with the skills, experiences and contacts to prepare them for post-graduate careers in the business word. DVF was launched in fall 2006 with an official endorsement from the Duke Career… read more »

Roberts and Sweeting Study "When Should Sellers Use Auctions?"
Roberts and Sweeting Study "When Should Sellers Use Auctions?"

04 September 2012 9:20AM New research by industrial organization specialists James Roberts and Andrew Sweeting has been accepted for publication. "When Should Sellers Use Auctions?" will be published in a forthcoming issue of the American Economic Review. Following is the abstract of the paper: A bidding process can be organized so that offers are submitted simultaneously or sequentially. In the latter case, potential buyers can condition their behavior on previous entrants' decisions. The relative performance of these… read more »

Duke Econ vs. UNC Econ Basketball Championship Game
Duke Econ vs. UNC Econ Basketball Championship Game

14 August 2012 11:46AM The Department of Economics at Duke will take on their fierce rivals, UNC's Department of Economics, in a major basketball event. The game will be held this Thursday, August 16, at 4:00 PM in UNC's Woollen Gymnasium in Chapel Hill. "This may be the greatest match-up ever in economics sports history," said fourth year Ph.D. student Joe Mazur. "It's the ultra game-of-the-century challenge for the championship of everything - including economics." Some concern has been expressed that the referees will be… read more »

New Staffer Tiffany Yarborough
New Staffer Tiffany Yarborough

02 August 2012 8:02PM So, often you will find that if you come to my office, I will have my headphones on listening to music and singing. Also, I am the Praise and Worship Leader as well as the Choir Director at the Greater Orange Grove Baptist Church here in Durham. I write some of the songs for our Choirs, and I have done some writing for various Gospel Groups in the area. This is my passion - I love to sing and teach.  read more »

Cosmin Ilut's Currency Research in the American Economic Journal
Cosmin Ilut's Currency Research in the American Economic Journal

18 July 2012 11:09AM A specialist in macroeconomics and international finance, Professor Cosmin Ilut has new research that will be published in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. His article, "Ambiguity Aversion: Implications for the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle," will be featured in an upcoming issue of the highly regarded journal. Following is the paper's abstract: High-interest-rate currencies tend to appreciate in the future relative to low-interest-rate currencies instead of… read more »

Professor Tim Bollerslev's New Research Receiving Recognition
Professor Tim Bollerslev's New Research Receiving Recognition

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Summer Institute Examined the Emergence of Modern Economics
Summer Institute Examined the Emergence of Modern Economics

26 June 2012 7:55AM The 2012 Center for the History of Political Economy's Summer Institute concluded on Friday, June 22, ending two weeks of sessions that examined important developments leading to the economics that is taught and practiced today. Led by a team of eight lecturers - all specialists in certain aspects of contemporary economics - 31 students discussed and explored such topics as the history of game theory, the ordinal revolution and revealed preference theory, and the history of econometrics, as well as the… read more »

Class of 2012 Graduation Ceremony
Class of 2012 Graduation Ceremony

13 May 2012 7:40AM Duke University held its 160th Commencement Ceremony on Sunday morning, May 13, at Wallace Wade Stadium. Immediately following the main Duke ceremony, the Department of Economics held its Graduation Recognition Ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium. This year the Department of Economics recognized 13 graduates with a Ph.D., 57 graduates with a Master of Arts, and approximately 250 graduates with an economics major.  The audience of students, friends and family listened to various speakers at the event.… read more »