This seminar series is made possible through the generosity of two prominent Vanderbilt alumni, Ambassador K. Terry Dornbush (BA '55) and Joe L. Roby (BA '61)

Department Seminar Series Coordinator for Fall 2006:  Professor Tong Li

Empirical Economics Seminar Series (coordinator: Tong Li)
International Economics Seminar Series (coordinator: Rick Bond)
Statistics Study Group Seminar Series (coordinator: Yanqin Fan)

All seminars will take place in room 204, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)

September 2006

Thursday, September 21st
Bo Honore
Princeton University
"Discreet Time Duration Models with Group-Level Heterogeneity"

Thursday, September 28th
Patrik Guggenberger
UCLA
“The limit of finite sample size and a problem with subsampling”
“Hybrid and size-corrected subsample methods”

October 2006

Thursday, October 12th
Lutz Kilian 
University of Michigan
"Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike: Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market"

November 2006

Thursday, November 9th
Quang Vuong
Penn State University
"Efficient Conditional Quantile Estimation: The Time Series Case"

Thursday, November 30th
Stephen Cosslett
Ohio State University
"Efficient estimation of semiparametric models by smoothed maximum likelihood"

Archived Statistics Study Group Seminars from 2005-06

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