Conference and Seminar Program

The Centre aims to organize occasional conferences, workshops, and seminars where associated fellows of the centre are invited to contribute.

2018 Seminar Speakers

DATE	TIME	LOCATION	EVENT	PRESENTATION TITLE
January 16th	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	ACB 238	Seminar Series Roberto Rigobon MIT	"Contingent Linear Financial Networks"
January 23rd Note time change	10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	KAP 335	Seminar Series Davide Pettenuzzo Brandeis University	"Adaptive Hierarchial Priors for High- Dimensional Vector Autoregressors"
February 6th Note time change	10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	RTH 306	Seminar Series Geert Dhaene KU Leuven	"Profile-Score Adjustments for Incidental-Parameter Problems"
February 13th Note room change	10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	RTH 526	Seminar Series Joint with CAFE Alexander Chudik Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas	"Global and Country Specific Effects of Technology and Fiscal Policy Shocks on Output and Debt Using a Multicountry Approach"
February 20th Note room change	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	ACB 238	Seminar Series Essie Maasoumi Emory University	"Entropy-Based Aggregation of Misspecified Asset Pricing Models"
February 27th	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	KAP 319	Seminar Series Gordon Hanson UC San Diego	"Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S."
March 6th	10:30 a.m. - 12:00 a.m	RTH 306	Seminar Series S. Anukriti Boston College	"Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India"
March 6th Note room change	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	ACB 238	Seminar Series Jonathan Wright Johns Hopkins University	"Interest Rate Conundrums in the Twenty-First Century”
March 20th	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	ACB 238	Seminar Series Sid Chib Washington University in St. Louis	"Bayesian Estimation and Comparison of Moment Condition Models"
March 27th	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	KAP 319	Seminar Series Joint with CAFE Ron Smith Birkbeck University of London	"Tests of Policy Interventions in DSGE Models"
April 3rd	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	KAP 319	Seminar Series Joint with Econometrics Tomohiro Ando University of Melbourne	"Large Scale Panel Choice Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity"
April 6th & 7th	8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Vineyard Room	Conference "Housing, Urban Development, and the Macroeconomy"	CLICK HERE for More Information
Note time change	2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m	KAP 319	Seminar Series Joint with CAFE Yiannis Dendramis University of Cyprus	"A Regularization Approach for Estimation and Variable Selection in High Dimenstional Regression Models"
April 10th	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	KAP 319	Seminar Series Serena Ng Columbia University	"Principal Components and Regularized Estimation of Factor Models"
April 17th Note room change	4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.	ACB 238	Seminar Series Joint with CAFE Jean-Marie Dufour McGill University	“Simple Estimators and Inference for Higher-Order Stochastic Volatility Models”
April 24th Note time and room change	1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	TCC 227	Distinguished Lecture Series Frank Diebold University of Pennsylvania	"Egalitarian LASSO for Combining Economic Forecasts"

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