Econometrics Seminars Winter 2026

Tuesday, 2:00-3:20 pm  (unless otherwise is noted with *)
In-Person Seminars will be held in Sproul 2206.
Zoom meeting ID’s will be emailed out before each seminar.

Questions? Contact Tae-Hwy Lee

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

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/6/2026 *Zoom (2:00-3:20pm) Ekaterina Seregina, Colby College A Nonlinear Target-Factor Model with Attention Mechanism for Mixed-Frequency Data
1/9/2026 10:00am to 11:00am Ali Mehrabani, University of Kansas (Joint with Macroeconomics) Identifying Latent Group Structures in Spatial Panel Models with Common Shocks.
1/9/2026 2:00pm to 3:20pm Shahnaz Parsaeian University of Kansas (Joint with Macroeconomics) Mixed Frequency Panel Regressions with Sparsity and Heterogeneity.
1/13/2026 Grigory Franguridi, USC Generalized method of moments with partially missing data
1/20/2026 No Seminar
1/27/2026 Han Hong, Stanford The ROC Curve and Statistical Allocations Paper 1 Paper 2
2/3/2026 *Zoom (3:30-4:50pm)  Fuwei Jiang, Xiamen University Market Risk Premium: A Single Optimal Predictive Factor in High Dimension
2/10/2026 *Zoom (3:30-4:50pm) Xuan Leng, Xiamen University Reinforced Tail Quantile Regression
2/17/2026 Whitney Newey, MIT Linear Estimation of Structural and Causal Effects for Nonseparable Panel Data
2/24/2026 *Zoom (3:30-4:50pm) Yundong Tu, Peking University Shattering Break Barriers: Inferential Theory for Group Factor Models Subject to Disruptive Breaks
2/27/2026  *Friday M. Hashem Pesaran, USC and Cambridge

(Joint with Macroeconomics)
The Output Convergence Debate Revisited: Lessons from recent developments in the analysis of panel data models
3/3/2026 No Seminar
3/10/2026 No Seminar