Texas Econometrics Camp XI

(2/25 and 2/26, 2006)

Waterwood National Resort

 

 

2/25, Saturday

 

12:00-1:00

Lunch

 

1:00-1:50

Keynote speaker: John Rust (University of Maryland)

 

    When to Replace a Car? Predictions of the Actual Replacement Decisions of an 

 

    Automobile Rental Company with the Predictions of an Optimal Stopping Model

 

 

1:50-2:40

Keynote speaker: Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University)

 

    Spatial Panels

 

 

2:40-3:00

Coffee Break

 

 

3:00-3:30

David Papell

 

    Inflation Persistence and the Taylor Rule

 

 

3:30-4:00

Dennis Jensen (A&M)

 

   Evidence on Asymmetric Gasoline Price Responses

 

 

3:30-4:00

Daniel Henderson (SUNY-Binghamton)

 

     Is Gravity Linear? (with Daniel Millimet)

 

 

4:30-5:00

Coffee Break

 

 

5:00-5:30

Bill Brown (Rice)

 

    The Identification Problem in Nonlinear Systems Revisited

 

 

5:30-6:00

Paul Wilson (UT)

 

    Estimation and Inference in Cross-Sectional, Stochastic Frontier Models

 

 

6:30 --

Dinner

 

 

2/26, Sunday

 

 

 

7:00-8:30

Breakfast

 

 

8:30-9:00

Aliaksandr Amialchuk (grad student, UH)

 

    The Effect of Husband's Earnings Shocks on the Timing of Childbearing

 

 

9:00-9:30

Rick Evans (grad student, UT)

 

    The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: Myth or Measurable

 

 

9:30-10:00

Liye Zhu (grad student, SMU)

 

     Is There A Tradeoff between Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Wages?

 

 

10:00-10:20

Coffee Break

 

 

10:20-10:50

Tanya Molodtsova (grad student, UH)

 

    The Out-of-Sample Performance of Empirical Exchange Rate Models from the 1970's

 

     to the 2000's

 

 

10:50-11:20

Jeffrey Jacobs (grad student, SMU)

 

    What matters for Economic Development: Institutions, Geography and Trade --

 

     A Panel Data Study (with Thomas Osang)

 

 

11:20-11:40

Bibo Jiang (grad student, Rice)

 

   Nonstationary Logistic Regression

 

 

11:40-12:00

Joe Qian (grad student, Rice)

 

   Functional Autoregressive Model with an Application to Forecasting Risk Neutral PDF

 

 

12:00-1:00

Lunch

 

 

1:00-1:30

Chad Dacus and Robin Sickles

 

   The Relative Profitability of the Institution of American Slavery: 1830-1860

 

 

1:30-2:00

Maxwell Stinchcombe (UT)

 

    Geometry, Genericity, and the Curse of Dimensionality

 

 

2:00-2:30

Ximing Wu (A&M)

 

    Maximum Entropy Approximation to Small Sample Distributions