Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

GREATER NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA
ECONOMETRICS COLLOQUIUM

December 2, 2006

Coordinators: Yuichi Kitamura and Taisuke Otsu

| Participating Universities | List of Attendees |

8:30-9:00 Coffee, Opening Remarks
9:00-10:30 SESSION 1: Times Series — Chair: Bruce Hansen

Jushan Bai, NYU, "Panel Cointegration with Global Stochastic Trends" (with Chihwa Kao & Serena Ng)
Ulrich Mueller, Princeton University, "t-statistic Based Correlation and Heterogeneity Robust Inference" (with Rustam Ibragimov)

Haipeng Xing, Columbia,"Stochastic Change-Point ARX-GARCH Models and their Applications to Econometric Time Series"
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:15

SESSION 2: Microeconometrics — Chair: Jean-Marc Robin

Debopam Battacharya, Dartmouth and Yale, "Inferring Optimal Resource Allocation from Experimental Data"

Dylan Small, Wharton, "Sensitivity Analysis for Instrumental Variables Regression with Overidentifying Restrictions"
Gautam Tripathi, University of Connecticut, "Estimating Linear Functionals of Nonparametric Regression Models with Endogenous Regressors" (with T. Severini)
12:15-1:45 Lunch (Catered)
1:45-3:15 SESSION 3: Special Session by Graduate Students — Chair: Yuichi Kitamura
Brendan Beare, Yale University, "Copulas and Temporal Dependence"
Alfred Galichon, Harvard University and Columbia University, "The Dilation Bootstrap" (with Marc Henry)
Demain Pouzo, NYU, "Efficient Estimation of Semi/Nonparametric Conditional Moment Models with Nonsmooth Moments" (with Xiaohong Chen)
Ke-Li Xu, Yale University, "Empirical Likelihood Based Inference of Nonlinear Diffusions"
3:15-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 SESSION 4: Advances in Econometric Theory — Chair: Peter Phillips
Donald Andrews, Yale University, "Hybrid and Size-Corrected Subsample Methods" and "The Limit of Finite-Sample Size and a Problem with Subsampling"
Aureo de Paula, University of Pennsylvania, "Interdependent Durations" (with Bo Honore)
Dennis Kristensen, Columbia University, "Nonparametric Filtering of the Realised Spot Volatility: A Kernel-based Approach"
Kevin Song, University of Pennsylvania, "Testing Conditional Independence using Conditional Martingale Transforms"
6:30 Dinner, Scoozzi Trattoria and Wine Bar
PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES: Brown University, Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, University of Connecticut, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University

ATTENDEES

FACUlTY
Donald Andrews (Yale)
Andres Aradillas (Princeton)
Jushan Bai (NYU)
Debopam Bhattacharaya (Dartmouth and Yale)
Xiaohong Chen (NYU)
Robert Engle (NYU)
Eric Gautier (Yale)
Bill Greene (NYU)
Bruce Hansen (U-WI Madison)
Marc Henry (Columbia)
Rustam Ibragimov (Harvard)
Yuichi Kitamura (Yale)
Frank Kleibergen (Brown)
Dennis Kristensen (Columbia)
Sophocles Mavroeidis (Brown)
Ulrich Mueller (Princeton)
Alexei Onatski (Columbia)
Taisuke Otsu (Yale)
Aureo de Paula (U-Penn)
Peter Phillips (Yale)
Gonzalo Rangel (NYU)
Jean-Marc Robin (Univ. of Paris)
Bernard Salanie (Columbia)
FACULTY, continued
Azeem Shaikh (Univ. of Chicago & Yale)
Dylan Small (Wharton)
Kevin Song (U-Penn)
Joerg Stoye (NYU)
Gautam Tripathi (U-Conn)
Ed Vytlacil (Columbia)
Zhijie Xiao (Boston College)
Haipeng Xing (Columbia)

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Brendan Beare (Yale)
Xu Cheng (Yale)
Wei Dou (Yale)
Yaxin Duan (Yale)
Kirill Evdokimov (Yale)
Alfred Galichon (Columbia and Harvard)
Seik Kim (Yale)
Toru Kitagawa (Brown)
Huaming Peng (Yale)
Demain Pouzo (NYU)
Xiaoxia Shi (Yale)
Ke-Li Xu (Yale)
Mingyuan Zhang (Wharton)