Presented
a paper at the Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Boston, 7-9 January 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. 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
Expert testimony, Committee on
Energy and Consumers� Affairs and Protection, New York State Assembly, August
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,
Paper presented at the 28th International Symposium on
Forecasting, Nice, June 24-27, 2008.
Paper presented at a seminar at KOF Swiss Economic
Institute, ETH, Zurich July 9, 2008.
Paper presented at a seminar in the Research Department of
Magyar Nemzeti Bank - The Central Bank of Hungary,
Budapest, July 16, 2008.
Paper presented at 29th CIRET Conference, Santiago, Chile, October 8-11, 2008.
Lectures on Frontiers of Panel Data Econometrics, PhD
students of four mid-German Universities, Liepzig/Halle,
December 1-3, 2008.
Presented seminars at Madras School
of Economics, Center for Development Economics, Trivanvam,
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata during January 2009.
"Evaluating
Probability Forecasts",
paper to be presented at the First Macroeconomic Conference, ifo/INSEE/ISAE, Rome, March 27, 2009.
"Measuring
Forecast Uncertainty by Disagreement",
paper presented at conference
"Forecasting
and Monetary Policy" on 23 -24, March 2009 at Bundesbank,
Berlin.
Paper presented at the 27th International Symposium on
Forecasting, Hong Kong, June 21-24 2009.
Delivered 2009-10 Sichel Lecture
on "Advances
in Economic Forecasting",
Western Michigan University, September 30, 2009.
Paper presented in a seminar at Ohio State University,
Economics department, November 24, 2009.
Delivered ten lectures on panel data econometrics and
qualitative dependent variables to selected doctoral students in a workshop "Research Methods in Quantitative
Economics" at
the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, Dec 18, 2009-Jan 7,
2010.�
Presented a paper at a conference on
"Issues
on Globalization and Sustainability" at
University of Calcutta, December 23, 2009.
Presented a paper at an international
conference to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. C.R. Rao,
Indian Statistical Institute, January 10-11, 2010.
Presented a paper at a workshop to
honor Sir Clive Granger, Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,
January 12, 2010.
Presented a paper and a discussant
at CES-ifo Area Conference on Macro, Money &
International Finance, Munich, 26 - 27 February 2010.
Discussant at the 6th Workshop on Forecasting Techniques:
Forecasting, Real time and Survey Data, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, March
5-6, 2010.
Guest Lecturer, Summer Workshop on "Expectations and
Expectation Formation in Financial Markets", ZEW: Centre Economic Research
in Mannheim, Germany. June 14-17, 2010.
Presented a paper at the 30th
International Symposium on Forecasting (San Diego), June 20-23, 2010.
Presented two papers at the 15th African Econometric
Association Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, July 7-9, 2010.
Presented a paper at the 10th Econometric Society World
Congress, Shanghai, August 17-21.
Presented a paper at the 6th
Eurostat Colloquium on Modern Tools for Business Cycle Analysis, 26-29
September 2010, Luxembourg.
Presented an invited paper at the
Third International Seminar on Early Warning and Business Cycle Indicators,
Moscow, Russia 17-19 November 2010.
Chair of a session "Monetary
Policy and the Term Structure of Forecasts",
American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Denver, Jan.
6-9, 2011.
Invited discussant, Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics Invited Paper: Forecast Rationality Tests Based on Multi-Horizon
Bounds, Econometric Society Meetings, Denver, Jan.
6-9, 2011.
Invited paper, 7th International Institute of Forecasters�
Workshop on Flash Indicators, Verbier
(Switzerland), Jan. 21-22, 2011.
Invited discussant, Seventh ECB Workshop on Forecasting
Techniques: New directions for forecasting, Frankfurt am Main, May 4-5, 2012
Keynote speaker, ZEW Conference "The Role of
Expectations in Financial Markets",
Mannheim/Germany on May 10-11, 2012.
Invited discussant, Deutsche Bundesbank
� ifo Institute workshop on "Uncertainty and Forecasting in
Macroeconomics",
June 1-2, 2012, Eltville am Rhein,
Germany.
Invited paper "The
Impact of Reporting Bias on the Measurement of Socioeconomic Health Inequalities
in the U.S." (with P. Noroski). The Royal
Statistical Society: 2012 International Conference, Telford, UK, 3-6 September,
2012.
Discussant, 2012 Annual Health Econometrics Workshop (AHEW)
2012 Annual Health Econometrics Workshop (AHEW), Roosevelt Institute, Hunter
College, New York, Sept 27-29, 2012.
Bank of France Conference on Global Spillovers, May 29-30,
2013.
Participant, 33rd International
Symposium on Forecasting, Seoul, Korea, June 23-26, 2013.
Seminar at Hosei University
Graduate school, Tokyo, June 27, 2013.
Seminar presented at Institute for Monetary and Economic
Studies of the Bank of Japan, June 28, 2013.
Presented a paper in the 9th Annual
CIRANO-CIREQ Workshop on Data Revision in Macroeconomic Forecasting and Policy,
Montreal October 11-12, 2013.
Invited Discussant, 8th Workshop on
Forecasting Techniques, June 13-14, 2014. European
Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany.
Presented a paper at the 1st
International Conference on Applied Econometrics, Queens Mary College, London,
June 26-28, 2014. London.
Presented a paper and Chaired a
session at the 34th International Symposium on Forecasting, Rotterdam. June
29-July 2, 2014.
Presented a paper at the 1st conference of the Society for
Economic Measurement, University of Chicago, August
18-20, 2014.
Invited Discussant, 2014 Conference Real-Time Data Analysis,
Methods, and Applications (October 10-11, 2014) - Philadelphia Federal Reserve
Bank, October 10-11, 2014.
Invited Discussant, Recent
Innovations in Info-Metrics Friday-Saturday, October 31 and November 1, 2014 at
American University.
Invited paper presented at the XXIVth
Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Organized by
the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Dec 20-21, 2014.
Presented a seminar at the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, May 21, 2015.
Presented a paper at the World
Congress of the Econometric Society, Montreal.
August 2015.
Presented a seminar at Lubar School of Business, University of Madison, Milwaukee,
Oct 16, 2015.
Conducted a 3 � day workshop to PhD
students/faculty on Binary Prediction Models at Centre for Training and
Research in Public Finance and Public Policy (CTRPFP), CSSSC, Kolkata, Jan
2016.
Presented a paper "ROC
Curve, Forecast Combination and Prediction of Rare Events" at Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata, Jan 19, 2016 and spent a week as a Visiting Professor at the Economic
Research Unit.
Presented a paper at the Econometric
Society Meetings, ASSA, San Francisco, January 2-5, 2016.
Keynote address, New York Camp Econometrics XI, The 1000 Islands Harbor Hotel, Clayton, NY, April 8-10, 2016.
Presented a paper at the International Symposium on
Forecasting, Santander, Spain, June 19-22. 2016.
Presented a paper at the 3rd Conference of the International
Applied Econometrics Association, Milan, July 2016.
Presented a paper at 2016 Africa Meeting of the Econometric
Society, Hotel Kruger Gate, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 25-28
July.
Presented a paper at the 33rd CIRET
conference, Statistik Denmark, Copenhagen, Sept
14-17, 2016.
Presented a paper at the 4th Conference of the International
Association of Applied Econometrics, Sapporo, Japan, June
26-30, 2017.
Invited talk at School of Economics, Riemen
University, Beijing, July 4, 2017.
Summer school lectures at Xiamen and Northeasten
Universities, July 5-11 2017.
Invited paper presented at New Frontiers in Econometrics,
Sponsored by Department of Economics at UCONN, June 15-17, 2018.
Chaired a session and presented a paper at the 38th
International Forecasting Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, June
16-20, 2018.
Chaired a session and presented a paper at the Conference of
the International Association of Applied Econometrics, Montreal, June 26-29. 2018.
Seminar, Presidency University, Kolkata, December 26, 2018.
Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 1,
2019.
Paper presented at the International Symposium on
Forecasting, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 15-19, 2019.
Paper presented at the Conference of the International
Association of Applied Econometrics, Nicosia, June
25-28, 2019.