Seminar Schedule: 2007-08
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All seminars are in BA 231 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm, unless noted otherwise.
Seminars with an asterisk ("*") are forecasting seminars supported by the New York State Division of the Budget.
Fall 2008
September 5
	Frank Diebold* University of Pennsylvania Topic: Forthcoming
October 10
	Kenneth West* University of Wiscosin Topic: Forthcoming
Spring 2008
Friday, January 25
	Dong Jin Lee University of California, San Diego Topic: Efficient Tests For Parameter Instability In General Models with Unknown Error Distribution (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Monday, January 28
	Li Wang Pennsylvania State University Topic: Integrated Conditional Moment.Tests for Parametric Conditional Distributions (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Wednesday, January 30
	Christopher Smith MIT Topic: Dude, Where's My Job? The Impact of Immigration on the Youth Labor Market (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Friday, February 1
	Jan Mutl Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Tuesday, February 5
	Alvin Murphy Duke University Topic: A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Thursday, February 7
	Bing-ru Teh University of California, Berkeley Topic: Do Liquor Stores Increase Crime and Urban Decay? Evidence from Los Angeles (Paper) Time: 2:45-4:05 pm;  Room: BA-130
Thursday, February 7
	Jing Liu Cornell University Topic: Generalized Residual-Based Specification Testing for Duration Models with Censoring (Paper) Time: 10:00-11:20 pm;  Room: HU-354
Thursday, February 8
	Nazgul Jenish University of Maryland Topic: Central Limit Theorems and Uniform Laws of Large Numbers for Arrays of Random Fields (Paper) Time: 2:30-4:00 pm;  Room: BA-214
Monday, February 25
	Baris Yörük Boston College Topic: How Responsive are Charitable Donors to Requests to Give? (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Tuesday, February 26
	Stephen Weinberg Harvard University Topic: Flexible Youths and Sticky Adults: Advertising to Overlapping Generations in the Cigarette Industry (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Wednesday, February 27
	Na Yin SUNY-Stony Brook Topic: Partial Benefits in the Social Security Disability Insurance Program: A Policy Alternative to Foster Work among the Disabled (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Thursday, March 7
	Masako Miyanishi University of California, Davis Topic: Testing the Present Value Model (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35 pm;  Room: BA-130
Friday, March 8
	Robert Engle* (Announcement) New York University Topic: High Dimension Dynamic Correlations (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-219
Monday, March 10
	Huaming Peng Yale University Topic: Factor Count Choice Using Posterior Information (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-130
Monday, March 14
	Michael Jerison SUNY Albany Topic: Testable Conditions for Unique,Stable Equilibrium with Linear Distortions (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-130
Friday, April 4
	Heski Bar-Isaac NYU Topic: Information and Human Capital Management (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-233
Friday, April 11
	John Geweke* (Announcement) University of Iowa Topic: Hierarchical Markov Normal Mixture Models with Application to Financial Asset Returns (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-233
Monday, April 14
	Eric Smith Essex Topic: Forthcoming Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-130
Thursday, April 17
	Kenneth Wallis* (Announcement) Warwick University Topic: Evaluating a Three-Dimensional Panel of Point Forecasts:The Bank of England Survey of External Forecasters (Paper) Time: 4:15-5:35pm ;  Room: BA-130
Friday, April 18
	Luis Corchon Universidad Carlos III Topic: Computing Welfare Losses from Data under Imperfect Competition with Heterogeneous Goods (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-233
Friday, April 25
	Erik Hurst University of Chicago Topic: Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-233
Friday, May 2
	Mark Watson* (Announcement) Princeton University Topic: Using Large N, T Factor Models for Forecasting, Data Description, and Structural Analysis (Paper), (Paper), (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-233
Wednesday, May 7
	Pinka Chatterji SUNY Albany Topic: Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-130
Monday, May 12
	David F. Hendry* Oxford University Topic: Forecasting, Structural Breaks and Non-Linearities (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-130
Fall 2007
Friday, September 21
	Tara Sinclair George Washington University Topic: Asymmetry in the Business Cycle: A New Unobserved Components Model (Paper)
Friday, September 28
	William Thomson University of Rochester Topic: Borrowing-Proofness (Paper)
Friday, October 5
	Brian Krauth Simon Fraser University Topic: Bounding a Linear Causal Effect Using Relative Correlation Restrictions (Paper)
Friday, October 12
	Silvio Rendon Stony Brook University Topic: International Job Search: Mexicans in and out of the US (Paper)
Friday, October 19
	Vivian Yue New York University Topic: Solving the Country Risk-Business Cycles Disconnect: Endogenous Output Collapse in a Model of Sovereign Default (Paper)
Monday, October 29
	Joop Hartog Universiteit van Amsterdam Topic: A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock (Paper) Time: 3:30-5:00 pm;  Room: BA-130
Thursday, November 8 (Announcement)
	James Hamilton* University of California, San Diego Topic: Daily Monetary Policy Shocks and the Delayed Response of New Home Sales (Paper) Time: 2:45-4:05 pm;  Room: BA-130
Friday, November 9
	Tomas Sjostrom Rutgers University Topic: Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace? (Paper)
Friday, November 16
	Patrik Guggenberger UCLA Topic: The Impact of a Hausman Pretest on the Size of Hypothesis Tests (Paper)
Friday, November 30
	Donghoon Lee Federal Reserve Bank of New York Topic: Option Value of Human Capital and the Narrowing Gender Gap in Labor Markets (Paper)