February
Professor Rudi Winter-Ebmer, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz.
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer is Professor of Labour Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and Research Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. He studied Economics and Maths in Linz where he also received his PhD. He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and holds visiting Professorships at the University of Zurich, Vienna and Paris. He is research fellow of the CEPR (London), a member of IZA (Bonn) and was a consultant for the World Bank. In 2007 he became coordinator of the Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Welfare State, a research network funded by the Austrian Science Foundation. Rudolf has published extensively, including papers in the American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics and the European Economic Review. His current research interests include the effects of pension systems on labor supply as well as the costs of worker displacement.
April
Professor Roger Craine, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley.
Roger Craine joined UC Berkeley as a Professor in 1977 after serving as Senior Economist on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1968-1977. He also served as Economist from 1981-1982 at the Federal Reserve System. He currently is on the JEDC Board of Advisors and is a member of the IFAC International Program Committee. Professor Craine also was Special Projects Editor for the Review of Economic Dynamics from 1997-2000 and Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control from 1987-1994. Between 1992-1997 he was a member of the International Bureau for Economic Research, and he was a member of the Council of the Society for Economic Dynamics between 1994-2004.
July
Professor David Hendry, Department of Economics and Nuffield College, Oxford University.
David Hendry is an ESRC Professorial Research Fellow, Chairman of the Economics Department, and Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Econometrics, London School of Economics, as well as a visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, San Diego, Yale, Duke, CORE, and the Australian National University. He has been an editor of Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and an associate editor of Econometrica and International Journal of Forecasting. He is listed by the ISI as one of the world’s 200 most cited economists. He has published extensively on econometric methods, theory, modelling, and history; numerical techniques; computing; empirical economics; and economic forecasting, including more than 130 papers, and 12 books.
Professor Yacine Aït-Sahalia, Department of Economics, Princeton University.
Yacine Aït-Sahalia is the Otto A. Hack '03 Professor of Finance and Economics and the Director of the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. He was previously an Assistant Professor (1993-96), Associate Professor (1996-98) and Professor of Finance (1998) at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Professor Aït-Sahalia is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research concentrates on financial econometrics, investments, fixed income and derivative securities, and has been published in leading academic journals. He currently serves as the editor of the Review of Financial Studies and an associate editor for a number of academic finance journals. He received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and is a graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique.
Dr Ralf Becker, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester.
Ralf Becker received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Johannis Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) and his PhD degree from Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia). After completing his PhD in 2003 he worked as a Lecturer at QUT before he started as a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester in January 2005 where he is a member the Center for Growth and Business Cycle Research. His research interest is in econometrics and financial econometrics. He currently teaches a course in econometrics, particularly time-series econometrics.
August
Professor Kenneth Lindsay, Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow.
Kenneth Lindsay received an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and a D.Phil in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics from the University of Oxford (Merton College). His early work concerned aspects of nonlinear wave propagation leading to shock wave formation. Later work involved the use of spectral analysis and energy methods to study the stability of fluid convection driven by heating and other destabilising mechanisms followed later by work in linear and second order elasticity based on the use of integral transform methods. His most recent research is concerned with the use of mathematics in Neuroscience and in Finance. The important theme unifying what appear at first sight to be very different disciplines is the inherent stochastic nature of the underlying problems. The treatment of this stochasticity requires analyses based on the theory of point processes for discrete processes and stochastic differential equations in the case of continuous processes.
September
Professor Adonis Yatchew, Department of Economics, University of Toronto.
Adonis Yatchew is a Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Economics Department at the University of Toronto. He undertook his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has held visiting appointments at Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Chicago. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Journal. His main areas of research are econometrics, energy and regulatory economics. His book “Semiparametric Regression for the Applied Econometrician” was published by Cambridge University Press.
Professor Kenneth F. Wallis, Economics Department, University of Warwick
Kenneth F. Wallis is Emeritus Professor of Econometrics at the University of Warwick. He was educated at Manchester University and Stanford University. He held the Chair of Econometrics at Warwick from 1977 to 2001; previously he taught at the London School of Economics. He was Director of the ESRCs Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau and a member of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in the UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
