Kajal Lahiri

Professor of Economics, Biometry & Statistics, and Health Policy & Management

Chair (1994-97)

Department of Economics
University at Albany
State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222

Office Location: BA-129B (Business Administration Building)
Telephone: (518) 442-4758
Fax: (518) 442-4736 (for the Department)
E-mail: klahiri@albany.edu

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1975
B.A. Hons., University of Calcutta, 1967

Visiting Scholar, Division of Economic Research, Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, Washington, D.C., September 1993 – present (various periods).

Visiting Professor, Sino-US Education Commission – National Academy of Sciences, Economics Training Center at the Peoples University, Beijing, China, January 1990 – May 1990.

Visiting Scholar, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., 1987– (various periods).

Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Health Economics, Forecasting

Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models (co-eds., C. Hsiao, K. Lahiri, L-F. Lee, and H. Pesaran). Cambridge University Press, 1999 (Reprinted 2000).

Leading Economic Indicators: New Approaches and Forecasting Records (co-ed. Geoffrey Moore). Cambridge University Press, 1991 (paperback edition, 1992).

"Further Consequences of Viewing LIML as an Iterated Aitken Estimator" (with C. Gao). Journal of Econometrics, 2000, 187-202.

"A Structural Model of Social Security's Disability Determination Process" (with others). Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

"Interest Rate Spreads as Predictors of Business Cycles." In Handbook of Statistics: Methods in Finance Vol 14 (eds. G.S. Maddala and C.R. Rao). North-Holland, 1996.

"Modeling SSA's Sequential Disability Determination Process Using Matched SIPP Data" (with D. Vaughan and B. Wixon). Social Security Bulletin, Winter 1995, 3-45.

"A Framework for Analyzing Survey Forecasts Using Three-Dimensional Panel Data" (with Anthony Davies). Journal of Econometrics, 1995, 205-227.

"Socioeconomic Factors and the Odds of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Section" (with Dale King). JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association, August 1994, 524-529.

"Predicting Cyclical Turning Points with Leading Index in a Markov Switching Model" (with Jiazhuo Wang). Journal of Forecasting, 1994, 245-263.

Associate Editor, Journal of Econometrics, 1990–.
Associate Editor, International Journal of Forecasting, 1994–.
Member, Editorial Board, Empirical Economics, 2000–.

Eco 720 Econometrics III
Eco 721 Applied Econometrics
Eco 320 Economic Statistics
Principal advisor of over thirty-five doctoral dissertations

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Last modified: 21 September 2000