Friday,
March 19 |
Xiaodong Gong (ANU)
Family labour
supply in urban China |
Friday,
March 26 |
Chris Skeels (Melbourne)
Approximating
the Distribution of the Instrumental Variables Estimator when
the Concentration Parameter is Small |
Friday,
April 2 |
Enrique Sentana (Centro de
Estudios Monetarios y Financieros, Spain)
Indirect estimation of conditionally
heteroskedastic factor models |
Friday,
April 23 |
Bill Griffiths (Melbourne)
Estimating Variable Returns
to Scale Production Frontiers with Alternative Stochastic Assumptions |
Friday,
May 7 |
Vance Martin (Melbourne)
Discounting the Equity Premium
Puzzle |
Friday,
May 14 |
Paul Kofman (Melbourne)
Structurally Sound Dynamic
Index Futures Hedging |
Friday,
May 21 |
Mardi Dungey (ANU)
Unravelling Financial Market Linkages During
Crises: A Methodology and Application |
Tuesday,
May 25 |
Rodney Strachan (Keele University)
Improper priors with well defined
Bayes Factors |
Friday,
May 28 |
Denise Osborn (University
of Manchester)
Seasonal Adjustment and the
Detection of Business Cycle Phases |
Friday,
June 4 |
Youn Kim (Western Kentucky
University)
How Serious is the Chronic Budget
Deficit? |
Thursday,
June 10 |
Yi-Ping Tseng (University
of Melbourne)
Employee Turnover: less is
not necessarily more? |
Thursday,
July 1 |
Mark Harris (Monash University)
A Double Hurdle Model for Ordered Data with an
Application to Tobacco Consumption |
Tuesday,
July 6 |
Bill Greene (Stern School
of Business, NYU)
Fixed Effects and Bias due
to the Incidental Parameters Problem in the Tobit Model |
Monday,
July 12 |
Giovanni Forchini (University
of York)
Testing for Identification in Structural Equations |
Tuesday,
July 13 |
Zhenlin Yang (Singapore Management
University)
Modelling Firm-Size Distribution
using Box-Cox Heteroscedastic Regression |
Friday,
July 16 |
Alan Timmermann (UC San Diego)
Forecasting Time Series Subject
to Multiple Structural Breaks |
Wednesday,
July 21 |
Gary Deng (Monash University)
Spatial
Econometrics and Application in Analysis of Crime |
Friday,
July 23 |
Cheng Hsiao (University of
Southern California)
Aggregate vs Disaggregate Data
Analysis — A Paradox in the Estimation of a Money Demand Function
of Japan Under the Low Interest Rate Policy |
Friday,
August 6 |
Dale Poirier (University of
California, Irvine)
What
is in a Word or Two? |
Friday,
August 13 |
Markus Junker (Centre of Advanced
European Studies and Research)
Multidimensional chi-square
testing |
Friday,
August 20 |
Kesten Green (Victoria University
of Wellington)
Can statistics help forecast
decisions in real conflicts? |
Friday,
August 27 |
David Harris (University of
Melbourne)
Panel Stationarity Tests for
Purchasing Power Parity with Cross-sectional Dependence |
Friday,
September 10 |
Hielke Buddelmeyer (University
of Melbourne)
An Evaluation of the Performance
of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA. |
Friday,
September 17 |
Matt Wand (University of New
South Wales)
Penalised Splines and Reproducing
Kernel Methods |
Friday,
October 8 |
Tim Fry (RMIT)
Election Overboard |
Monday,
October 18 |
Robert Brooks (RMIT)
Alternative
Beta Risk Estimators in Emerging Markets: The Latin American Case |
Monday,
October 18 |
Chris Lloyd (University of
Melbourne)
Estimation
of the False Negative Fraction when Multiple Negatives are Unverified |
Wednesday,
October 20 |
Param Silvapulle (Monash
University)
Purchasing
Power Parity Revisited: Nonlinear models, Impulse Response Functions
and Half-Lives |
Thursday,
October 21 |
Mervyn Silvapulle (La Trobe
University)
Tests
against Inequality Constraints when some nuisance parameters are
present only under the alternative |
