Speakers at the Duke Financial Econometrics Lunch Group: 1998 to 2016

 

Links:

 

·         Here is the lunch group schedule for the current semester

 

·         Link to the original web master of this group - surely one of the first seminar web masters of all!

 


Summer 1998:

 

May 4: Charles Shen

May 11: Hao Zhou

May 18:Bin Zhang

May 26: Adrian's successful defense

 

June 1: Discussion of jump diffusion papers (Bates, RFS 1996) and Bakshi et al (JoF, Dec 1997)

June 8:  Continuation of discussion

June 15: Students only

June 22: Students only

June 29: Students only

 

 July 6: Chris Lundblad

 July 13: Bin Zhang

 July 20: Hao Zhou

 July 27: Charles Shen

 

August 3: Discussion of Gallant/Tauchen paper "The Relative Efficiency of ..."

August 10: Students only

August 17: Students only

August 24: Frank Ryan

August 31: Chris Lundblad

 

September 7: Bin Zhang

 

Fall 1998:

 

September 14: Chris Lundblad

September 21: Bin Zhang

September 28: Charles Shen

 

October 5: Hao Zhou

October 12: students only

October 19: Eduardo Rossi

October 26: Frank Ryan

 

November 2: Jon Tang

November 9: students only

November 16: Diego Valderrama

November 23: Ravi Bansal

November 30: Chris Lundblad (joint work with Ravi Bansal)

 

December 7: Hao Zhou (joint work with Ravi Bansal)

December 11: Triangle Econometrics Conference

December 14: Larry Kochard (Tim's Ph.D. student from UVA)

 

Spring 1999:

 

January 18: Chris Lundblad

January 25: Hao Zhou

 

February 1: Hao Zhou and Ravi

February 8: Frank Ryan

February 15: Diego Valderrama

February 22: Jon Tang

 

March 1: Chris Lundblad

March 8: Ravi Bansal (very preliminary work)

March 15: Hao Zhou

March 22: Ben Zhang

March 29: Drew and Emma (round I)

 

April 5: Tina Rydberg (Oxford University)

April 12: Chris Lundblad

April 19: Tao Jiang

 

Summer 1999:

 

May 24: Ravi Bansal (new developments in asset pricing)

May 31: George Tauchen (review of recent developments in affine derivatives models)

 

June 7: Hao Zhou (work with Ravi)

June 14: Chris Lundblad

June 21: Students only

June 28: Tao Jiang

 

July 5:Hao Zhou

July12: Jon Tang

July 19: Tao Jiang

July 26: Chris Lundblad

 

August 2: Students only

August 9: Students only

August 16: Students only

August 23: Students only

 

Fall 1999:

 

September 6: Hao Zhou (initial overview of work on volatility diffusions and integrated volatility)

September 13: Chris Lundblad

September 20: Tao Jiang (prospectus defense)

September 27: George Tauchen (multi-factor long memory volatility models)

 

October 4: Hao Zhou

October 11: Jon Tang

October 18: Jon Tang -- follow up

October 25: Drew and Emma

 

November 1: Students

November 8: Chris Lundblad

November 15: Drew and Mohan

November 22: Hao Zhou

November 29: Chris Lundblad

 

December 6: James Weston, UVA Grad Student of Tim Bollerslev

December 13: Lin Peng, new member, Fuqua Ph.D. student.

 

Spring 2000:

 

January 10: Jon Tang

January 17: Hao Zhou

January 24: Frank Ryan

January 31: Drew and Mohan

 

February 7: Review papers of Econometrics Job Candidates P. Hansen (UCSD) and Victor C. (Stanford)

February 14: Garland Durham

February 21: Jon Tang (Prospectus Defense)

February 28: Chris Lundblad

 

March 6: B Park

March 13: Students only

March 20: Lars Forsberg, Visiting scholar from Uppsala

March 27: Frank Ryan

 

April 3: Hao Zhou

April 10: Jon Tang

April 17: Emmma Rasiel

April 24: Frank Ryan

 

May 1: Final Orals for Chris Lundblad and Hao Zhou (regular meeting)

May 8: Yibin Zhang

May 15: Garland Durham

May 22: Frank Ryan

May 29: Julia Litvinova

 

Summer 2000:

 

May 22: Frank Ryan

May 29: Julia Litvinova

 

June 5: Jon Tang

June 12: Emma Rasiel

June 19: Drew Roper

June 26: Mohan Gopalan

 

July 3: Garland Durham

July 10: Ravi Bansal

July 17: Benjamin Zhang

July 24: Frank Ryan

July 31: Alan Bester

 

August 7: Lin Peng

August 14: Students only

August 21: Jon Tang

August 28: Mohan Gopalan

 

Fall 2000:

 

Missing!

 

Spring 2001:

 

January 8: Benjamin Zhang

January 15: Magnus Dahlquist (new participant from Fuqua faculty) "An Evaluation of International Asset Pricing Models"

January 22: Gregory Kordas, U of Illinois

January 29: Frank Ryan

 

February 5: Lars Forsberg

February 12: Jon Tang

February 19: Lars Forsberg

February 26: Etsuro Shioji (visiting faculty) "Aspects of Term Structure Analysis from a Macro Perspective"

 

March 5: Alan Bester

March 12:

March 19: Julia Litvinova

March 26: Magnus Dahlquist

 

April 2: Etsuro Shioji

April 9: Alan Bester

April 16: Lin Peng

April 23: Frank Ryan

April 30: Mohan Gopalan

 

May 7: Lars Forsberg (Back from Sweden)

May 14: Jon Tang

May 21: Benjamin Zhang

May 28:

 

June 4: Alan Bester

June 11: Julia Litvinova

 

Summer 2001:

 

June 4: Frank Ryan

June 11: Hao Zhou (Back visiting from the Fed)

June 18: Julia Litvinova

June 25: Edward Fang

 

July 2: Lin Peng

July 9: Jon Tang

July 16: Frank Ryan

July 23: Alan Bester

July 30: Mohan Gopalan

 

August 6: Students Only

August 13: Jon Tang

August 20: Julia Litvinova

 

Fall 2001:

 

MIssing!

 

Spring 2002:

 

January 7:  Tim Bollerslev

January 14: Ming Guo

January 21: Ravi Bansal

January 28: Julia Litvinova

 

February 4: Ed Fang

February 11: Alan Bester

February 18: Varoujan Khatchatrian

February 25: Benjamin Zhang

 

March 4: Hong Leng Chuah

March 11: Mohan Gopalan

March 18: Michael R. Roberts (Fuqua faculty)

March 25: Barbara Rossi

 

April 1: Julia Litvinova

April 8: Ed Fang

April 15: Alan Bester

April 22: Varoujan Khatchatrian

April 29: Jon Tang (final thesis defense) & Hong Leng Chuah

 

May 6: Hong Leng Chuah

 

Summer 2002:

 

May 13: Si Li

May 20: Benjamin Zhang

May 27: Students only

 

June 3: Hao Zhou (Federal Reserve Board, former active member of the group)

June 10: Tim Bollerslev

June 17: Meeting with Econ Year 3+ students followed by Tauchen's presentation

June 24: Ming Guo

 

July 1: Alessandro Palandri

July 8:  Ed Fang

July 15: Varoujan Khatchatrian

July 22: Hong Leng Chuah

July 29: Julia Litvinova

 

August 5: Benjamin Zhang

August 12: Students only

August 19:Ming Guo

August 26: Barbara Rossi

 

Fall 2002:

 

September 2: Ed Fang

September 9: Alan Bester

September 16: Varoujan Khatchatrian {tentative}

September 23: Benjamin Zhang

September 30: Hong Long Chuah

 

October 7:  Mark Coppejans

October 14: Ravi Bansal

October 21: Ming Guo

October 28:  Dana Kiku

 

November 4: Julia Litvinova

November 11:Alan Bester

November 18: Allessandro Palandri

November 25: Benjamin Zhang

 

December 2:  Nour  Meddahi (University of Montreal and Princeton University)

December 9: Lars Stentoft (Aarhus University, Denmark)

December 16: Ming Guoand Dana Kiku (progress reports on thesis prospectuses)

 

Spring 2003:

 

January 6: George Tauchen   

January 13: Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar (UNC graduate student who is joining the group)

January 20: Meg Cheng (UNC graduate student who is joining the group)

January 27: Ming Gao: initial pre-prospectus presentation

 

February 3: Dana Kiku: initial pre-prospectus presentation

February 10: Informal meeting, free sandwiches, newer members might want to talk a few minutes about their interests.

February 17: Alessandro Palandri [postponed because of  winter storm]

February 24: Ming Gao - prospectus defense

 

March 3: Dana Kiku - prospectus defense

March 10: Alessandro Palandri and Varoujan Khatchatrian

March 17: Jianguo (Will) Xu: initial pre-prospectus presentation

March 24: Meg Cheng

March 31: Julia Litvinova    

 

April 7: Jianguo (Will) Xu: prospectus defense

April 14: Alan Bester         

April 21: NOTE -- Starting time is 11:15 AM.

              Benjamim Zhang  [final thesis defense] 

              Helena Veiga [visiting Ph.D. student from Barcelona]

April 28: Barbara Rossi       

 

May 5: David Raggi          

May 12: Ed Fang

 

Summer 2003:

 

May 19: Ron Gallant (The General Theory of Scientific Models)   (Discussant: Bjorn Eraker)

May 26: Students only

 

June 2: Bjorn Erakar

June 9: Ed Fang    and   Ming Guo

June 16: Julia Litvinova    and Alan Bester  

June 23: Xin Huang        and  Alessandro Palandri

June 30: Alan Bester and Varoujan Khatchatrian

 

July 7: Dana Kiku

July 14: Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and (Meg) Ai-ru Cheng

July 21: Ming Guo

July 28: Alan Bester  Xin Huang   (Special after session talk by Ron Gallant )

 

August 4: Varoujan Khatchatrian   and Ed Fang  

August 11: Si Li

August 18:  Ming Guo (prospectus defense)   and  Xin Huang  

 

Fall 2003:

 

August 25: Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Julia Litvinova 

 

September 1: Michael Brandt 

September 8: George Tauchen

September 15: Xin Huang 

September 22: Alan Bester

September 29: Varoujan Khatchatrian 

 

October 6: Julia Litvinova  

October 13: Dana Kiku

October 20: Barbara Rossi 

October 27: Alessandro Palandri  

 

November 3: Ed Fang   

November 10: Bjorn Eraker

November 17: Bob Kimmel

November 24: Maxym Dedov  

 

December 1: (Meg) Ai-ru Cheng 

December 8: Julia Litvinova  and Varoujan Khatchatrian 

December 15: Julia Litvinova

 

Spring 2004:

 

January 5: Students only

January 12: Alessandro Palandri 

January 19: Students only

January 26:  Canceled due to weather

 

February 2: Xin Huang (prospectus defense) 

February 9: Maxym Dedov (prospectus defense)  

February 16: Alessandro Palandri (prospectus defense)

February 23: General discussion of the defenders' future plans and celebrate their successful defenses.

 

March 1: Dana Kiku

March 8: Students only

March 15: Corsi Fulvio 

March 22: Duy Tran     

March 29: Ming Guo    

 

April 5: Ed Fang         

April 12: Final defense of Julia Litvinova   / Meg Cheng (discussion of technical issue that arose in previous presentation)

April 19: Final defenses of Varoujan Khatchatrian   and Alan Bester 

April 26: S. Viswanathan (joint work with PhD student Bin Wei)

 

Summer 2004:

 

May 3: Bjorn Eraker (Optimal Derivative Portfolios )

May 10: Xin Huang   

May 17: Si Li

May 24: Yuriy Kitsul    

May 31: Students only

 

June 7: Maxym Dedov   

June 14: Alessandro Palandri     

June 21:  Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar    

June 28:  Barbara Rossi

 

July 5: Students only

July 12: Dana Kiku     

July 19: Duy Tran

July 26: Ed Fang     

 

August 2: Viktor Todorov  

August 9: Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar

August 16: George Tauchen   

 

Fall 2004:

                          

August 23:  Ming Guo

August 30:  Si Li

 

September 6: Students only

September 13: Uta Kretschmer (visitor from Bonn, Germany)

September 20: Ed Fang  (Job market, initial presentation)      

September 27: Ming Guo  (Job market, initial presentation)   

 

October 4:  Alessandro Palandri ( PhD thesis update)   

October 11: Students only

October 18:  Max Dedov ( PhD thesis update)             

October 25:  Duy Tran (Prospectus Defense)             

 

November 1: Xin Huang: ( PhD thesis update) )             

November 8: Ed Fang : (Job Market Presentation)       

November 15: Ming Guo (Job Market Presentation)    

November 22: Viktor Todorov (Prospectus Defense)   

November 29: Yuriy Kitsul (Job Market Presentation)  

 

December 3:  Go to the Triangle Econometrics Conference Bo Honore, Plenary Speaker

December 6:  12 Noon Start Time: Mohammad Jahan-Parvar  

 

Spring 2005:

 

January 10: Xin Huang  (PhD research update)   

January 17: Students only

January 24: Dana Kiku ( PhD research update)       

January 31: Max Dedov ( PhD research update)     

 

February 7:  Uta Kretschmer (visitor from Bonn, Germany)    

February 14: Alessandro Palandri (PhD research update)       

February 21: Duy Tran ( PhD research update)                      

February 28: Viktor Todorov (PhD research update)             

 

March 7:  11:30-12:30 Javier Mencia  (visitor from Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid)

                12:30-1:15   Ming Guo, Final PhD Examination     

March 14: Students only

March 21: Dana Kiku ( PhD research update)

March 28: Xin Huang  (PhD research update)      

 

April 4:  Raffaella Giacomini (visitor from UCLA)      

April 11: Javier Mencia (visitor from Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid)

April 18: Ed Fang, Final PhD Examination               

April 25: Max Dedov (PhD research update)           

 

May 2:  Duy Tran (PhD research update) 

May 9:  Viktor Todorov (PhD research update)            

 

Summer 2005:

 

May 2:  Duy Tran (PhD research update)                          

May 9:  Viktor Todorov (PhD research update)                

May 16: Alessandro Palandri (PhD research update)         

May 23: Xin Huang  (PhD research update)                     

May 30: Students only

 

June 6: Dana Kiku ( PhD research update)                        

June 13: Frank Ryan (PhD research update)                     

June 20: Max Dedov ( PhD research update)                    

             Duy Tran (PhD research update)                        

June 27: Alessandro Palandri (PhD research update)        

 

July 4: Students only

July 11: Viktor Todorov (PhD research update)                    

July 18: Max Dedov (PhD research update)                          

July 25:  Frank Ryan (PhD research update)                         

 

August 1: Bjorn Eraker                                                         

August 8: Alessandro Palandri (PhD research update)           

August 15: Viktor Todorov (PhD research update)                      

August 22: Dana Kiku (PhD research update)                              

 

Fall 2005:

 

August 29: Max Dedov (PhD research update)           

 

September 5: Students only (mandatory for those here)

                        Bon Voyage and now welcome back to Ale, Viktor, and Tim who gave papers at a major finance

                       Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark: http://www.econ.ku.dk/fru/conference/

September 12: Faculty preview of student posters for SAMSI workshop (Thanks go to Barbara for her mentorship.)

September 19: SAMSI Opening Workshop

September 26: Max Dedov (PhD research update)           

 

October 3: Uta Kretschmer (visitor from Universität Bonn, Deutschland)           

October 10: Students only (mandatory)

October 17: Xin Huang (job market practice talk)             

October 24: Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar (PhD research update)                      

October 31: Thomas Busch (visitor from Aarhus Universitet, Danmark)              

 

November 7: Dana Kiku (job market practice talk)               

November 14: Alessandro Palandri (job market practice talk)                

November 21: Max Dedov (job market practice talk)                           

November 28: Marcus Larson and Mia Holmfeldt (visitors from Sverige)

 

December 5: Ivan Shaliastovich (initial research report) )                      

December 12: Bjorn Eraker

December 19: Students only

December 26: Students only

 

Spring 2006:

 

January 2: Students only

January 9: Students only

January 16: Students only

January 23: Tim Bollerslev and welcome session for undergraduates who attend as part of the research/lab course, Econ 201FS.

January 30: Viktor Todorov 

 

February 6: Xin Huang 

February 13: Duy Tran

February 20:  Ivan Shaliastovich (Prospectus defense)

February 27: No meeting at Duke, the SAMSI closing workshop is Feb 27-28.  Registration required.

 

March 6:  Alessandro Palandri

March 13: Students only

March 20:  Max Dedov

March 27:  Jules van Binsbergen

 

April 3:    Natalia Sizova (Presentation of research material)

April 10:  Max Dedov, Final PhD thesis defense and

Alessandro Palandri, Final PhD thesis defense

April 17:   Bjorrn Eraker (Presentation of recent research)

April 24:  General discussion of financial econometrics

 

May 1:    Duy Tran

May 8: Jean Jacod, Université Paris VI (On some statistical problems for high frequency data)

May 15:  Viktor Todorov

May 22:  Ron Gallant and Han Hong ("A Statistical Enquiry into the Plausibility of Epstein-Zin-Weil Utility")

May 29: Students only

 

Summer 2006:

 

May 1:    Duy Tran

May 8: Jean Jacod, Université Paris VI (On some statistical problems for high frequency data)

May 15:  Viktor Todorov

May 22:  Ron Gallant and Han Hong ("A Statistical Enquiry into the Plausibility of Epstein-Zin-Weil Utility")

May 29: Students only

 

June 5:   Duy Tran (Research summary)

June 12:   General discussion of research

June 19: Tzuo Hann Law (Presentation of recent research)

June 26: Alessandro Palandri  (Presentation of recent research)

 

July 3: Students only

July 10:   Xin Huang (Presentation of recent research)

July 17:   Natalia Sizova (Presentation of recent research)

July 24:   Viktor Todorov (Presentation of research material)

July 31:   Ivan Shaliastovich (Presentation of research material)

 

August 7: Viktor Todorov (informal summary of research material)

August 14:   Xin Huang (Presentation of recent research)

 

Fall 2006:

 

August 21:   Tzuo Hann Law (Presentation of recent research)

August 28:   Hengjie Ai (New Fuqua Finance Faculty)

 

September 4: Students only

September 11:   Duy Tran (Presentation of research material)

September 18:   Viktor Todorov (Presentation of research material)

September 25:   Bjorn Eraker

 

October 2:   Ivan Shaliastovich  (Presentation of research material)

October 9: Students only

October 16:   Tzuo Hann Law (Duke undergraduate, presentation of recent research)

October 23:   Jules H. van Binsbergen  (Fuqua School, Presentation of recent research)

October 30:   Xin Huang (Presentation of research material)

 

November 6:   Samuel Henkel (UNC Chapel Hill, Presentation of recent research)

November 13:  Bin Chen (visitor from Cornell)

November 20:  Nataliya Khmilevska

November 27:  Natalia Sizova (Presentation of recent research)

 

December 4:   Xin Huang (Presentation of research material)

December 11:  Viktor Todorov (Presentation of research material)

 

Spring 2007:

 

January 8: Students only

January 15: Students only

January 22: Tzuo Hann Law (Presentation of recent research)

January 29: Natalia Sizova (Preliminary presentation of prospectus research)

 

February 5: Runeet Kishore (Presentation of recent research)

February 12: Ivan Shaliastovich (Presentation of research material)

February 19: Theis Lange (Visitor from Denmark)

February 26: Natalia Sizova (Prospectus Defense)

 

March 5: Dana Kiku (PhD thesis defense)

March 12: Students only

March 19: Bjorn Eraker (Presentation of recent research)

March 26: Econometrics Field Day, All Duke PhD students

 

April 2: Report on the new PhD job market from recent successful participants

April 9: Duy Tran (Final PhD Examination)

April 16: Tzuo Hann Law (Presentation of recent research)

April 23: Eric Aldrich (Presentation from the literature)

April 30: Viktor Todorov and Xin Huang (Final PhD Examinations)

 

May 7: Ralph Koijen and Jules Vanbinsbergen (Presentation of recent research)

May 14: Ravi Bansal (Presentation of recent research)

May 21:

May 28: Students only

 

Summer 2007:

 

June 4: Viktor Todorov (Presentation of recent research)

June 11: Natalia Sizova (Presentation of recent research)

June 18: Craig Burnside (Presentation of recent research)

June 21-24 Econometric Society Summer Meeting:

 

July 2: Students only

July 9: Open

July 16: Andrey Fradkin (Presentation of recent research)

July 23: General discussion of paper by J. Woerner

July 30:  Students only

 

August 6: Students only

August 13: Eric Aldrich (Presentation of research material)

August 20: Howard Kung (Presentation of research material)

 

Fall 2007:

 

August 27: Andrey Fradkin (Presentation of recent research)

 

September 3: Ivan Shaliastovich (Presentation of research material)

September 10: Peter Van Tassel (Presentation of research material)

September 17: Warren Davis (Presentation of research material)

September 24: Natalia Sizova (Presentation of research material)

 

October 1: Jonathan B. Hill (Visitor, UNC – Chapel Hill)

October 8: Students only

October 15: Bjorn Eraker (Presentation of research material)

October 22: Peter Van Tassel (Presentation of research material)

October 29: Warren Davis (Presentation of research material)

 

November 5: TBA, Perhaps a general discussion of the frontiers of financial econometrics

November 8:  (Thursday) Econometrics Seminar, Federico Bandi, University of Chicago

November 12: Denis Nekipelov (Presentation of research material)

November 19: Viktor Todorov, Northwestern University Davis (Presentation of research material)

November 26: Peter Van Tassel and Warren Davis (Presentation of research material)

 

December 3: Andrey Fradkin (Presentation of recent research)

December 10: Students only

December 17: Students only

December 24:

December 31: Students only

 

Spring 2008:

 

January 7: Students only

January 14: Eric Aldrich

January 21: Students only

January 28: Ivan Shaliastovich

 

February 4:  Natalia Sizova

February 11: Howard Kung, Fuqua

February 18: No workshop, departmental seminar week

February 25: Ivan Shaliastovich and Natalia Sizova

 

March 3: Eric Aldrich (Prospectus defense)

March 10: Students only

March 17: Natalia Sizova

March 24: Juan Rubio-Ramirez

March 31: Theis Lange (University of Copenhagen)

 

April 7: Mike Schwert and Baishi Wu

April 14: Brian Jansen and Allison Keane

April 21: Zhongyan Zhu (University of Indiana)

April 28: Mike Schwert

 

May 5: Ron Gallant

May 12: PhD Students, general discussion

May 19: Eric Aldrich

May 26: Students only

 

Summer 2008:

 

June 2: Natalia Sizova

June 9: Ivan Shaliastovich

June 16: General discussion of research frontiers led by advanced students

June 23: Eric Aldrich

June 30: Natalia Sizova

 

July 7: New students – meet to review summer projects

July 14: New students – meet to review summer projects

July 21: New students – meet to review summer projects

July 28: New student(s) present progress on summer project

 

August 4: New student(s) present summer project(s)

August 11: New students – meet to review summer projects

August 18: New student(s) present summer project(s)

 

Fall 2008:

 

August 25: Ravi Bansal, Fuqua School

 

September 1: Natalia Sizova

September 8: Ivan Shaliastovich

September 15: Students only

September 22: Natalia Sizova

September 29: Kai Li

 

October 6: Howard Kung, Fuqua PhD student

October 20: Ivan Shaliastovich

October 27: Kai Li

 

November 10: Eric Aldrich

November 17: Bruno Feunou

 

December 5: Triangle Econometrics Conference

 

Spring 2009:

 

January 5: Students only

January 12: Eric Aldrich

January 19: Students only

January 26: Barry Rafferty

 

February 2: Iaryna Grynkiv

February 9: Romeo Tedongap (Visitor)

February 16: Ravi Bansal

February 23: Howard Kung

 

March 2: Kai Li

March 9: Students only

March 16: Ben Carlston

March 23: Natalia Sizova

March 30: Kai Li

 

April 6: Natalia Sizova (Final PhD Defense)

April 13: Mohammad Jahan-Parvar

April 20: undergraduate presentations

 

Fall 2009:

 

August 24: Hengjie Ai (Duke-Fuqua), Mariano Massimiliano Croce (UNC), Kai Li (Duke-Economics)

August 31: Andrew Patton (New Duke Economics faculty member)

 

September 7: Students only

September 14: Ron Gallant (Duke-Fuqua Faculty)

September 21: Eric Aldrich

September 28: Ravi Bansal (Duke-Fuqua Faculty)

 

October 5: Students only

October 12: Howard Kung (Fuqua)

October 19: Bruno Feunou

October 26: Hao Zhou (Fed Board)

 

November 2: Nour Meddahi (University of Toulouse)

November 9: Ravi Bansal

November 16: Ben Carlston

November 23: Kai Li

November 30: Iaryna Grynkiv

 

December 4: Triangle Econometrics Conference

December 7: Jean Sébastien Fontaine (Bank of Canada).

 

Spring 2010:

 

January 11: Students only

January 18: Students only

January 25: Viktor Todorov (Northwestern)

 

February 1: Ben Carlston, Prospectus Defense

February 8: Kai Li, Research update

February 15: Iaryna Grynkiv, Prospectus Defense

February 22: Daniela Osterrieder, Maastricht University and the Fuqua School

 

March 1: Ben Carlston, Iaryna Grynkiv, Prospectus Followups

March 8: Students only

March 15: Tarun Ramadorai, Oxford Business School

March 22: Eric Aldrich

March 29: Francesco Bianchi

 

April 5: Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar (Lunchgroup alum)

April 12: Kai Li, Prospectus Defense

April 19: Eric Aldrich

April 26: Howard Kung

 

May 3: Graduate student / faculty session

May 10: Iaryna Grynkiv

 

Fall 2010:

 

August 30:  Iaryna Grynkiv

 

September 6:  Kai Li

September 13:  Ben Carlston

September 20: Selma Chaker (University of Montreal)

September 27:  Dong Hwan Oh

 

October 4: Lai Xu

October 11:  Sophia Li

October 18: Bruno Feunou

October 25: Bryan Kelly (University of Chicago)

 

November 1: Valeri Voev (Aarhus University, visiting Duke Econ)

November 8: 2nd year students

November 15: 2nd year students + Iaryna Grynkiv

November 22: Eric Aldrich

November 29:  Ben Carlston + Kai Li

 

December 6:  Dong Hwan Oh

December 13:  Lai Xu

December 20:  Sophia Li

 

Spring 2011:

 

January 24:  Howard Kung

January 31:  Kameliya Filipova (University of St. Gallen)

 

February 7:  Ravi Bansal (Duke Fuqua)

February 14:  Dong Hwan Oh

February 21:  Lai Xu

February 28: Sophia Li

 

March 14:  Iaryna Grynkiv

March 21:  Ben Carlston

March 28:  Kai Li

 

April 4:  Pat Bayer (Slides on housing data sets and related research)

April 11:  Kevin Sheppard (University of Oxford)

April 18:  Second year students

April 25:  Hao Zhou (Federal Reserve Board)

 

May 2:  Howard Kung & Kai Li

May 9:  Iaryna Grynkiv & Ben Carlston

 

Summer 2011:

 

May 23:  Kameliya Filipova

May 30:  Sophia Li

 

July 25:  Kai Li

 

Aug 1:  Dong Hwan Oh

Aug 8:  Jia Li (new Duke faculty member)

Aug 15:  Iaryna Grynkiv

Aug 22:  Wenjing Wang

 

Fall 2011:

 

            Aug 29:  Lai Xu

 

            Sep 5:  Kristoph Kleiner

            Sep 12:  Lily Liu

            Sep 19:  Roel Oomen (Deutsche Bank)

            Sep 26:  Erik Vogt

 

            Oct 3:  Iaryna Grynkiv

            Oct 10:  Ben Carlston

            Oct 17:  Iaryna Grynkiv (practise job market talk)

            Oct 24:  Asger Lunde (Aarhus University): “And Now, the Rest of the News: Volatility and Firm Specific News Arrival”

            Oct 31:  Kai Li

 

            Nov 7:  Ravi Bansal (Fuqua)

            Nov 14:  Dong Hwan Oh

            Nov 21:  Lai Xu

            Nov 28:  Sophia Li

 

            Dec 5:  Wenjing Wang / Lily Liu

            Dec 12:  Kristoph Kleiner / Erik Vogt

 

Spring 2012:

 

Jan 9:  Ben Carlston

Jan 16:  Lai Xu

Jan 23:  Lily Liu

Jan 30:  Kai Li

 

Feb 6:  Viktor Todorov (ERID visitor from Northwestern University)

Feb 13:  Erik Vogt

Feb 20:  Francisco Peñaranda (visitor from Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "A Unifying Approach to the Empirical Evaluation of Asset Pricing Models" (PDF)

Feb 27:  Wenjing Wang / Iaryna Grynkiv

 

Mar 12:  Philippe Mueller (London School of Economics): "Bond Variance Risk Premia"

Mar 19:  Roberto Marfe (visiting PhD student from St Gallen)

Mar 26:  Dong Hwan Oh   

 

Apr 2:  Sophia Li

Apr 9:  Ben Carlston / Kai Li

Apr 16:  Lily Liu / Erik Vogt

Apr 23:  Lai Xu

Apr 30:  Jiakou Wang (visiting PhD student from U. Wisconsin - Madison)

 

May 7:  Wenjing Wang

May 14:  Roberto Marfe

May 21:  Erik Vogt

May 28:  Jia Li

 

June 4:  Lai Xu

 

Fall 2012:

 

Aug 20: George Tauchen (PDF of paper is here)

Aug 27: Kai Li

 

Sep 3:  Lai Xu

Sep 10: Sophia Li

Sep 17: Dong Hwan Oh

Sep 24: Ben Carlston

 

Oct 1: Andrea Vedolin (LSE faculty visiting Fuqua)

Oct 8: Erik Vogt

Oct 15: Lily Liu

Oct 22: Wenjing Wang

Oct 29: Jakob Stoeber (visiting PhD student at Duke stats dept)

 

Nov 5:  Irving De Lira Salvatierra / Yichong Zhang

Nov 12: Zdravko Paskalev / Sophia Li

Nov 19: Gustavo Fruet Dias (visiting PhD student from Queen Mary, University of London)

Nov 26: Cristina Scherrer (visiting PhD student from Queen Mary, University of London)

 

Dec 3: Xin Huang (a Monday lunch alumna, now at the University of Oklahoma). Paper is available here.

Dec 10: Erik Vogt

 

Spring 2013:

 

Jan 14: Lai Xu

Jan 21: Dong Hwan Oh

Jan 28: Wenjing Wang

 

Feb 4: Lily Liu

Feb 11: Irving De Lira Salvatierra

Feb 18: Lai Xu

Feb 25: Erik Vogt

 

Mar 4: Ron Gallant

Mar 18: Jia Li

Mar 25: Kai Li (PhD defense)

 

Apr 1: Dacheng Xiu (Chicago): "Volatility Risk Premia and Volatility Derivatives"

Apr 8: Sophia Li & Ben Zhao

Apr 15: Ben Carlston

Apr 22: Torben Andersen (Northwestern)

 

May 6: Wenjing Wang

May 13: Erik VogtMay 20: Lily Liu    

 

Fall 2013:

 

            Aug 26: Lai Xu

 

            Sep 2: Dong Hwan Oh

            Sep 9: Ilaria Piatti (Lugano)

            Sep 16: Enrique Sentana (CEMFI)

            Sep 23: Erik Vogt

            Sep 30: Wenjing Wang

 

            Oct 7: Jia Li, "Inference Theory for Volatility Functional Dependencies" (joint with Tauchen and Todorov)

            Oct 21: Wenjing Wang

            Oct 28: Irving De Lira Salvatierra

 

            Nov 4: Soroush Ghazi Kalahroudi

            Nov 11: Lily Liu

            Nov 25: Ben Zhao

 

            Dec 2: Lai Xu

 

Spring 2014:

 

            Jan 13: George Tauchen

            Jan 20: Lily Liu

            Jan 27: Ben Zhao

 

            Feb 3: Soroush Ghazi

            Feb 10: Irving De Lira Salvatierra

            Feb 17: Alexandru Rosoiu

            Feb 24: Andrew Patton

 

            Mar 3: Ben Zhao

            Mar 17: Ilze Kalnina (University of Montreal)

            Mar 24: Wenjing Wang / Erik Vogt

            Mar 31: Dong Hwan Oh / Lai Xu

 

            Apr 7: No seminar

            Apr 14: Ben Zhao

            Apr 21: Kristoph Kleiner

 

Fall 2014:

 

            Aug 25: Peter Hansen (European University Institute)

 

            Sep 1: Irving De Lira Salvatierra

            Sep 8: Lily Liu

            Sep 15: Rogier Quaedvlieg (Maastricht University)

            Sep 22: Silvia Goncalves (University of Montreal)

            Sep 29: Ben Zhao

 

            Oct 6: Andrew Patton

            Oct 13: Jia Li

            Oct 20: Lily Liu

            Oct 27: Irving De Lira Salvatierra

 

            Nov 3: Suzanne Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology)

            Nov 10: Red Davies

            Nov 17: Yuan Xue

            Nov 24: Alexandru Rosoiu

 

            Dec 1: Ben Zhao

 

Spring 2015:

 

Jan 12: Red Davies

Jan 19: MLK DAY (no seminar)

Jan 26: Ben Zhao

 

Feb 9: Caio Almeida (Graduate School of Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas)

Feb 16: Dacheng Xiu (Chicago Booth)

Feb 23: Red Davies (prospectus defense)

 

Mar 16: Irving De Lira Salvatierra / Lily Liu

Mar 30: Alexandru Rosoiu

 

Apr 13: Jia Li

Apr 20: Kevin Sheppard (Oxford University and the Office of Financial Research, US Treasury)

 

 

Fall 2015:

 

            Aug 24: Alexandru Rosoiu  

            Aug 31: Ben Zhao  

 

Sep 7: Red Davies  

Sep 11: Linxi Chen & Tyler Ransom  

Sep 14: Yuan Xue  

Sep 21: Dacheng Xiu (Chicago Booth)

Sep 28: Juho Nyholm (Helsinki)

 

Oct 5: Anna Cieslak

Oct 26: Joel Hasbrouck (NYU Stern)

 

Nov 2: Ben Zhao  

Nov 16: Brian Weller (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management)

Nov 23: Red Davies  

 

Spring 2016:

 

Jan 18: Yuan Xue  

Jan 25: Red Davies  

 

Feb 1: Ben Zhao  

Feb 8: Yunxiao Liu  (UNC)

Feb 15: Rui Chen  

Feb 22: Xiye Yang  (Rutgers)

Feb 29: Erik Vogt (NY Fed)  

 

Mar 7: Yuan Xue (3rd year paper defense)  

Mar 21: Ben Zhao  

Mar 28: Red Davies  

 

Apr 4: Rui Chen  

Apr 11: Yunxiao Liu  

Apr 18: Yuan Xue