Texas Camp Econometrics 15
La Torretta Lake Resort and Spa
Lake Conroe, Texas
February 20-21, 2010

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Saturday

2/20/2010

 Time Title Presenter University
  1:00 - 2:00

Indicators for Dating Business Cycles: Cross-History Selections and Comparisons

 Mark Watson Princeton
  2:00 - 2:15   Break  
  2:15 - 2:45

Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program

 Dann Millimet SMU
  2:45 - 3:15 Executive Compensation, Share Repurchases and Investment Expenditures: Econometric Evidence from U.S. Firms Alok Bhargava UH
  3:15 - 3:45 Measuring World Productivity Robin Sickles Rice University
  3:45 - 4:15 Bounds on Treatment Effects Using Monotonicity Richard Chiburis

UT Austin
  4:15 - 4:30   Break  
  4:30 - 5:00 Bounded Stochastic Frontiers with an Application to the US Banking Industry: 1984-2009 Pavlos Almanidis Rice University
  5:00 - 5:30 Do Estimated Taylor Rules Suffer From ZILCH? Juan Urquiza UH
  5:30 - 6:00 Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation: A Multi-Country Time-Varying Analysis Using the Taylor Rule Anastasia Zervou Texas A&M
  6:00 - 6:30   Hotel Check-in  
  6:30 - 7:00   Beer & Wine Reception  
 

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Sunday

2/21/2010

 Time Title Presenter University
  7:30 - 8:30   Continental Breakfast  
  8:30 - 9:00 U.S. Congressional Vote Empirics: A Discrete Choice Model of Voting Kyle Kretschman UT Austin
  9:00 - 9:30 Sectoral Effects of Aggregate Shocks Nathan Balke SMU
  9:30 - 10:00 A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Markets with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences Li Gan Texas A&M
  10:00 - 10:30 Dressed for Success? The Effect of School  Uniforms on School Achievement and Behavior Scott Imbermann UH
  10:30 - 11:00   Break  
  11:00 - 11:30 Vehicle Miles Traveled, Fuel Economy Efficiency and Costs of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard Yizao Liu UT Austin
  11:30 - 12:00 Predicting Long-Term Returns using Financial Volatility:
    Statistical Significance		 Natalia Sizova Rice University
  12:00 - 12:30 A Test of Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Theory of Consumer Bankruptcy Hellen Zhang Texas A&M
  12:30 - 1:00 Numerical Performance of MCMC Algorithms for Classical Estimation Anna Kormilitsina SMU
  1:00   Lunch & Adjourn