Econometrics Seminars Fall 2003

Wednesdays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Aman Ullah or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader. Copies of papers may be available from Pam .

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
10/1/2003* Kusum Mundra SDSU

*NOTE: Jointly with PE & D

“Suicide Bombing As a Strategic Instrument of Protest: An Empirical Investigation”
10/8/2003 Dustin Chambers UCR “A Semi-parametric Analysis of the Role of Inequality, Investment and Government Expenditure in Economic Growth”
10/15/2003 Ed Vytlacil Stanford University “Dummy Endogenous Variables in Non-Separable Models”
10/22/2003 Ken Baerenklau UCR Environmental Sciences “Implications of Static Modeling for Welfare Estimation and Out of Sample Predictions When the Underlying Decision Problem is Dynamic: An Application to Recreation Demand”
10/29/2003 Xingping Cui UCR Statistics “Quantitative Trait Linkage Mapping Using yeast micro-array gene expression data”
11/5/2003 Ekaterini Kyriazdou UCLA “Credit Constraints in the Market for Consumer Durables: Evidence from Micro Data on Car Loans”
11/12/2003 Liangjun Su UCSD “Testing Conditional Independence Via Empirical Likelihood”
11/13/2003* Hashem Pesaran Cambridge University &USC Distinguished Visitor

*NOTE: Thursday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm

“Macroeconomic Dynamics and Credit Risk: A Global Perspective”
11/19/2003 Dale Poirier UCI CANCELLED “TBA”
11/26/2003 Qi Li Texas A & M “Nonparametric Estimation of Econometric Models with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Data”
12/3/2003 Jim Press UCR Statistics “Respondent Generated Intervals (RGI)”
12/5/2003* Hidehiko Ichimura UCL

*NOTE: Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm

“Computation of Asymptotic Distribution for Semi-parametric GMM Estimators”