Conference in Honour of Adrian Pagan, 2009

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CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF ADRIAN PAGAN, 13 - 14 JULY 2009

Registration
Conference Program
Papers
Sponsors
Plenary Speakers
Conference Venue
Accommodation

Registration
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Registration to attend the conference presentations is free. Delegates who are not presenting are responsible for their own accommodation and travel arrangements and costs.

Attendance at the conference dinner will require payment of dinner cost of $90 and delegates need to pre-register. The dinner venue can accommodate limited numbers and delegates are encouraged to register early.

Conference Program
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Papers

Monday 12 July
Plenary Speaker
Hashem Pesaran - Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College & University of Cambridge

Session 1 - Adrian the Supervisor
George Mailath – University of Pennsylvania - Common Learning
Frank Vella – Georgetown University - Triangular Semiparametric Models Featuring Two Dependent Endogenous Binary Outcomes

Session 2 - Adrian the Colleague
George Tauchen – Duke University - Volatility Jumps
Eric Renault – University of North Carolina - Maximization by Parts in Extremum Estimation

Session 3 - The Influence of Adrian’s Work 1
Michael Binder – Goethe University & Centre for Financial Studies - On the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Exchange Rates
Ken Wallis – University of Warwick - Evaluating Density Forecasts: Forecast Combinations, Model Mixtures, Calibration and Sharpness

Tuesday 13 July
Session 4 - Adrian and Labour Markets
Eric Hanushek – Stanford University - Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Tom Cooley – Stern, NYU - Executive Compensation: The Facts

Plenary Speaker
Pravin Trivedi - Indiana University - Dynamic Cost-offsets of Prescription Drug Expenditures: Panel Data Analysis Using a Copula-based Bivariate Hurdle Model

Session 5 - The Influence of Adrian’s Work 2
Denise Osborn - University of Manchester - International Linkages and Identification for Open Economies with a SVAR Representation

Session 6 - Adrian the Coauthor
Aman Ullah – University of California, Riverside - Expectations of Quadratic Forms in Normal And Nonnormal Variable with Econometric Applications
Louis Maccini – John Hopkins University - Interest Rates and the Market for New Automobiles

Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the following sponsors:
Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis
Economic Society of Australia - Central Council
Economic Society of Australia - NSW Branch
Journal of Applied Econometrics
National Centre for Economic Research
Economic Program, Research School of Social Sciences
Reserve Bank of Australia
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Treasury
University of New South Wales
University of Queensland
University of Tasmania

Plenary Speakers
We are delighted to announce that plenary speakers for this conference will be:
Professor M. Hashem Pesaran
Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College
University of Cambridge

Professor Pravin K. Trivedi
Rudy Professor of Economics
Indiana University, Bloomington

Conference Venue
Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach
242 Arden Street
Coogee NSW 2034
Front desk: +61 (0)2 9315 7600
Email: reservations (at) crowneplazacoogee.com.au

Accommodation
Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach (conference venue)
242 Arden Street
Coogee NSW 2034
Phone: +61 (0)2 9315 7600
Email: reservations (at) crowneplazacoogee.com.au

Coogee Sands Hotel & Apartments
161 Dolphin Street
Coogee NSW 2034
Phone: +61 (0)2 9665 8588
Email: info (at) coogeesands.com.au

Medina Executive Coogee Hotel
183 Coogee Bay Road
Coogee NSW 2034
Phone: +61 (0)2 9578 6000
Email: mecg (at) medina.com.au