Princeton-QUT-SJTU-SMU Conference on Econometrics 2019

About

School of Economics at Singapore Management University, together with the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University, the National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) at Queensland University of Technology, and Antai School of Management at Shanghai Jiaotong University, will hold a 2-day conference titled "Frontiers in Econometrics" at SMU, Singapore, on Friday and Saturday, 23 - 24 August 2019.

The conference aims to bring econometricians from these four universities and beyond to exchange ideas in econometrics and share their most recent research findings.

Conference Venue:

Singapore Management University
School of Economics & Social Sciences
Seminar Room 5.1, Level 5
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903

Registration

Registration for the conference has closed.

Programme

Princeton-QUT-SJTU-SMU Conference on Econometrics 2019
Organiser: School of Economics, SMU

Date: 23 - 24 August 2019 (Friday and Saturday)
Venue: Seminar Room 5.1, Level 5, School of Economics, SMU
(Updated 23 August 2019)

Papers are 30 minutes: 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions.

23 August 2019 (Friday)

TimeEvent

12.00pm - 12:15pm

Registration

12.00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 3:00pm  

 Session 1 Chaired by Jun YU (SMU)

  1. Yacine AIT-SAHALIA (Princeton)
    Title: Testing Whether Volatility Can Be Written As a Function of the Asset Price
  2.  Adam CLEMENTS (QUT)
    Title: Using Weighted Least Squares in Multivariate HAR Models
  3. Liangjun SU (SMU)
    Title: Inference in Partially Identified Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects
  4. Bin WANG (HIT)
    Title: Testing for jump diffusion models based on threshold estimation of diffusive volatility

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea

3:30pm - 5:30pm

Session 2 Chaired by Sainan JIN (SMU)

  1.  Xun LU (HKUST)
    Title: Uniform Inference in Linear Panel Data Models with Two-dimensional Heterogeneity
  2. Vance MARTIN (University of Melbourne)
    Title: Coastal Dynamics and Adaptation to Uncertain Sea Level Rise: Optimal Portfolios for Salt Marsh Migration
  3. Annastiina SILVENNOINEN (QUT)
    Title: Not all quiet on the MTV-STCC-GARCH front
  4. Wenxin HUANG (SJTU)
    Title: Beat the Midpoint: Heterogeneity in Bid-ask long-run Equilibrium

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Conference Dinner (Hotel Rendezvous Straits Café)

24 August 2019 (Saturday)

TimeEvent

8:45am - 9:00am

Morning Tea

9:00am - 10:30am

Session 3 Chaired by Yichong ZHANG (SMU)

  1. Katherine UYLANGCO (QUT)
    Title: Asset Allocation with Regime Shifts and Feedback Effects
  2. Xi QU (SJTU)
    Title: Social Networks with Misclassified or Unobserved Links
  3. Allen LUI (SMU)
    Title: Bubble Detection under Long Memory Error Processes

11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 4 Chaired by Stan HURN (QUT)

  1. Weilin XIAO (ZJU)
    Title: Local powers of the least squares estimator-based test for the panel fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
  2. Yanbo LIU (SMU)
    Title: Inferences in the Predictive Regression with Functional Nonstationary Processes
  3. Stan HURN (QUT)
    ​​​​​​​Title: Modelling Wind Drought

12:30pm - 12:35pm

Photo Taking

12:35pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

Getting Here

Venue

Singapore Management University
School of Economics, Level 5
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903
Seminar Room 5.1

Please enter by the visitor's gate at the entrance, and let the security guard know that you are attending this conference.

Contact

Ms. CHEONG Pei Qi
Senior Executive
Office of Dean / School of Economics​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​Singapore Management University
Email: pqcheong@smu.edu.sg
DID: +65 6828 0855

Photos

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