PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1995:
"A Structural Model of Social Security
Disability Determination", Paper presented at the Winter Meeting of the
Econometric Society, Washington, D.C. January 1995.
Presented two papers and Chaired a session
at the 7th World Congress of the Econometric Society, Tokyo, August 1995.
Chaired a session on pseudo-panels at the
6th Biennial International Conference on Panel data, University of Amsterdam,
June 27-28, 1996.
Presented a paper at the 17th International
Forecasting Symposium, Istanbul, 24-26 June 1996.
Paper presented (with M.Paul) at the Joint
Statistical Meetings, Bayesian Section, Chicago, August 1996.
Discussant at the Conference on Expectations
in Economics: In Honor of the 50th anniversary of the Livingston Survey,
Federal Reserve Bank/University of Pennsylvania, October 3-4, 1996.
Delivered the 36th Alex G. McKenna Economic
Education Series Lecture "Welfare Reform for the Disabled" at the
Center for Economic and Policy Education, April 1997, St. Vincent College,
Latrobe, PA.
Chaired a session on Selection and Attrition
and presented a paper at a plenary session, 7th. International Conference on
Panel Data, June 1997, La Sorbonne, Paris.
Chaired three sessions on Financial
Indicators and presented papers at the 23rd. Ciret Conference, Helsinki, July
1997
Presented a paper ‘Health Effects of
Smoking in a Sequential Self-Selectivity Model’ at the Econometric Society
Meeting, Chicago, January, 1998.
Co-Organizer, Conference on Stock Market
Exuberance and Recent Corrections, The University at Albany, October 2, 1998.
Presented a paper ‘A Panel Data Analysis
of Waiting Time for Social Security Disability Claims’ in a departmental
seminar, University of Oulu, Finland, January 15, 1999.
Presented a paper at the Journal of Applied
Econometrics Conference on Inference and Decision Making, Erasmus University,
Rotterdam, 6-8 June 1999.
Presented a paper at the 19th International
Symposium on Forecasting, Washington, D.C. June 27-30, 1999.
Presented papers at the Joint Statistical
Meeting, Baltimore, 8-12 August 1999
Presented a paper at the 8th European
Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics, University of Catania, Catania,
Italy, 8-11 September 1999.
Presented a paper at the Winter Meetings of
the Econometric Society, Boston, 7-9 January 2000.
Presented a paper "Who Quits? Evidence
Based on the First four Waves of HRS" at the Research Day - N.Y. State
Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Albany, Feb. 17, 2000.
Presented a paper and chaired a session at
the International Forecasting Symposium, Lisbon, June 21-24, 2000.
Presented two papers at the World Congress
of the Econometric Society, Seattle, WA. August 11-16, 2000.
Presented a paper “Panel Data Analysis of
Waiting Time of Social Security’s Disability Applications” at the Southern
Econ. Assoc. Meeting, Crystal City, VA. Nov. 10-12, 2000.
Departmental seminars entitled “Value of
Sample Separation Information in a Sequential Probit Model: Another Look at
Social Security’s Disability Determination Process”, Queens University (Oct.
26, 2000); University at Maryland (Nov. 29, 2000).
Discussant of a paper by Clive Granger et
al. at the American Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, January 2001
Paper entitled “Bayesian Analysis of
Nested Logit Models Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo” presented at the regional
meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Laguna Beach,
April 2001. Also presented at the Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society,
University of Maryland, College Park, June 2001.
Participated in the 10th European Workshop
on Health Economics and Econometrics, Institute of Fiscal Studies, September
2001.
“A Structural Model of Social Security
Disability Insurance Using Matched SIPP/Administrative Data”, Paper resented
at the 1st International Conference on Social Insurance and Pensions Research,
University of Aarhus, Denmark, November 16-18, 2001.
Guest Lecturer on Econometrics, Econometric
Society Winter School, Delhi School of Economics, Dec. 28, 2001 – Jan. 5,
2002.
“Testing for Forecast Efficiency Using
Cross-Country Data”, paper presented at the 22nd. International Forecasting
Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 22-26, 2002.
Disability and Transportation, Round Table
Discussion, Joint Statistical Meetings, New York City, August 11-15, 2002.
Discussant, 11th European Workshop on
Econometrics and Health Economics, University of Lund, Sweden. September 12-14,
2002.
Seminar at Reserve Bank of India, Research
Department, Mumbai, December 30, 2002.
Paper presented at the International
Bayesian Workshop/Conference, January 6-8, 2003. Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata, India.
Seminar, Department of Economics, Syracuse
University, February 21, 2003.
Five lectures on health econometrics and
disability, March 4-14, 2003, Hosei School of Economics, Tokyo, Japan.
Interview with Business School Dean Richard
Highfield on TV Channel 6, WRGB in the weekly program “Business Matters”
regarding the Establishment Surveys conducted by Econometric Research Institute
at UAlbany, March 16, 2003.
Presented paper at the 23rd Intl. Symposium
of Forecasting, Merida, Mexico, June 15-18, 2003.
Invited Lecture at the NY Department of
Transportation, “Predicting the Future of the Economy using Transportation
Data”, March 22, 2004.
Delivered the Gosnell Lecture “Recent
Challenges to America’s Disability Policies” at Rochester Institute of
Technology, Rochester, New York. April 21, 2004.
Presented a paper and Chaired a session at
the 13th International Panel Data Conference, College Station, TX. June 4-6,
2004.
Presented papers at the 24th International
Forecasting Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 4-7, 2004.
Presented a paper at the Australasian
Meeting of the Econometric Society, Melbourne, Australia. July 7-10, 2004.
“Should the Transportation Output be Part
of the Coincident Indicator System?” Paper to be presented at the 27th CIRET
conference, Warsaw (Poland), September 14-18, 2004.
Invited talk on “Measuring uncertainty in
forecasting” at the 3rd Annual Advances in Econometrics Conference in honor of
2004 Economics Nobel Laureates Rob Engle and Clive Granger, Nov. 5-7, 2004. LSU,
Baton Rouge.
Invited talk on Transportation Indicators at
the Economics Club, SUNY-Oneonta, Fall 2004.
Seminar on U.S. Social Security Disability
Programs, Andrew Young School of Public Affairs, GSU, Atlanta, October 20, 2004.
Invited lecture, International Conference on
“Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education”, Dec. 29-Jan. 1,
2005; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India.
Invited Lecture at the NY Department of
Transportation, “Predicting the Future of the Economy using Transportation
Data”, March 22, 2004.
Delivered the Gosnell Lecture “Recent
Challenges to America’s Disability Policies” at Rochester Institute of
Technology, Rochester, New York. April 21, 2004.
Presented a paper and Chaired a session at
the 13th International Panel Data Conference, College Station, TX. June 4-6,
2004.
Presented papers at the 24th International
Forecasting Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 4-7, 2004.
Presented a paper at the Australasian
Meeting of the Econometric Society, Melbourne, Australia. July 7-10, 2004.
“Should the Transportation Output be Part
of the Coincident Indicator System?” Paper presented at the 27th CIRET
conference, Warsaw (Poland), September 14-18, 2004.
Invited talk on “Measuring uncertainty in
forecasting” at the 3rd Annual Advances in Econometrics Conference in honor of
2004 Economics Nobel Laureates Rob Engle and Clive Granger, Nov. 5-7, 2004. LSU,
Baton Rouge.
Invited talk on Transportation Indicators at
the Economics Club, SUNY-Oneonta, Fall 2004.
Seminar on U.S. Social Security Disability
Programs, Andrew Young School of Public Affairs, GSU, Atlanta, October 20, 2004.
Invited lecture, International Conference on
“Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education”, Dec. 29-Jan. 1,
2005; Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India.
Chair, session on forecasting, World
Congress of the Econometric Society, London. August 2005.
Invited speaker, Future of Forecasting,
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, December 10-14, 2005
Invited speaker, 1st Minority Health
Disparity Conference, Columbia University, March 10-11, 2006
Seminar speaker, Measurement of health
disparity in New York, Syracuse University Center for Policy Analysis, Maxwell
School, March 31, 2006.
Seminar speaker, "How Far Ahead Can We
Forecast? Evidence Based on Cross Country Forecasts". University of
California at Riverside, April 12, 2006.
Month long lecture tour to China, July 2006
(Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing, and Summer School on
Econometrics, Xiamen University).
Visiting Scholar, City University of Hong
Kong, July 26-30, 2006.
Paper presented at NIH Conference on Health
Disparity, Washington D.C. October 23-24, 2006,