Curriculum Vitae

George Tauchen

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Department of Economics
213 Social Science
Box 90097
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0097
+1 919 660 1812, +1 919 660 1800 (office)
(email)
Personal

Date of this CV: April 15, 2008

Birth date: November 26, 1949

Education

PhDUniversity of Minnesota1978
BAUniversity of Minnesota1971
Areas of Research

Econometrics, Financial Economics

Areas of Interest

Econometrics
Financial Economics

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor of Finance (Joint Appointment), Fuqua School of Business, 1998 - present
William Henry Glasson Professor of Economics, Duke University, 1997 - present
Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, 1987 - present
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Economics, Duke University, 1983-1987
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, 1977-1982
Visiting Positions
Visitor, University of Chicago, January 1995-March 1995
Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University, April 1995-June 1995
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago, January 1987-June 1987
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Founding member of the Society for Financial Econometrics, September, 2007
Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, 2004
Scholar/Teacher of the Year, 2003, Duke University
William Henry Glasson Professor of Economics, Duke University, 1997
Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1994
Fellow of the American Statisticial Association, 1993
Conferences Organized

Program Chair, 2007 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, March 1, 2006 - December 31, 2007
Co-Organizer, Conference on the Risk Neutral and Objective Probability Distributions, October 2000
Co-organizer, 1997 NSF-NBER Time Series Meeting, October 1997
Co-organizer, Conference on New Computational Methods in Economics and Finance, September 1995
Co-organizer, CIRANO/CRDE International Conference on Stochastic Volatility, October 1994
Co-organizer, Triangle Econometrics Conference, December 1993-1998
Organizer, Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamic Models, 1989
Co-organizer, Conference on Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods in Statistics and Econometrics, May 1988
Editorial Service
Scholarly Journals, Approximately 7-10 per year, Referee, 1977 - present
Journal of Financial Econometrics, Co-Editor, 2006 - present
Journal of Econometrics, Associate Editor, 2006 - 2008
Journal of Econometrics, Co-Editor, Special Issue: Frontiers of Financial ..., 2003
Journal of Dynamic Macroeconomics, Co-Editor, Special Issue, 1997
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Editor, 1992 - 1996
Journal of Empirical Finance, Associate Editor, 1991 - 1992
Econometric Theory, Associate Editor, 1989 - 1992
Econometrica, Associate Editor, 1986 - 1992
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Associate Editor, 1986 - 1989
Journal of the American Statistical Association, Associate Editor, 1984 - 1989

Professional Service

  Internal Service

President's Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, Chair, July 01, 2006 - June 30, 2008
Duke University Research Committee, Member, September 1, 2002 - June 30, 2006
APT: Provost's Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure, September 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005
Provost's Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure, Chair(September 2001-June 2002), September 1999-June 2002
Provost's Advisory Committee on Distinguished Professors, Member, Spring 1999
Arts and Sciences Computing Committee, Chair
Department of Economics, Director of Graduate Studies, 1990-1992, 1997-1998
Faculty Review Committee for Xianhong Chen, Chair
Review Committee for outside appointment with tenure, Member
Econometrics Search Committee, Member
Review Committee for outside appointment with tenure, Chair
MA Program, Department of Economics, Coordinator, 1992-1994
Review Committee for promotion to full rank of Fuqua candidate, Member, 1994

  External Service

Business and Economics Section of the American Statistical Association, Chair, 1997-1998
Program Committee, 1996 Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Member, 1996
Program Committee, Twelfth World Congress of the Econometric Society, Member, 1995
Program Committee, 1988 Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Member, 1988
1986 Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Local Arrangements Chairman, 1986

Publications (listed separately)
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Symposium on Nonlinear and Nonparametric Time Series, Xiamen China, May 12, 2008
Visitor, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, October 2-5, 2007
NSF-NBER Time Series Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, October, 2007
Conference on Financial Econometrics, London, England, May, 2007
Leverage and Volatility, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, April 15, 2006
Asian Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications (ASETA), Taipei, Taiwan, May 19, 2005
Invited Lecture, Joint Meeting of the European Econometric Society and the European Economics Association, Madrid, Spain, September 2004
Lectures on Financial Econometrics, Uppsala, Sweden, October 2003
Models for Stock Price Dynamics, Nuffield College, Oxford University, October 2001
Lectures on Financial Econometrics: 2001 CIDE, Italian Centre for Econometrics, Econometrics Summer School, Bertinoro Italy, June 2001
Invited Address, American Statistical Association, B&E Section, Indianapolis, August 2000
Lectures on Financial Econometrics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, May 1997
Lectures on Financial Econometrics, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Vienna, Austria, May 1996
Invited Address for the Seventh World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 1995
Invited Address for Business and Economics Section of the 1986 Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1986
Doctoral Theses Directed

Viktor Todorov, High Frequency Finanical Econometrics, (2007)
Duy Tran, Structural Models for High Frequency Data Analysis, (2007)
Alan Bester, MCMC Methods for Random Field and Latent Factor Models in Finance, (2004)
Jon Tang, Essays on Volatility Transmission, (2002)
Bin Zhang, Essays on Specification Analysis, (2001)
Christian Lundblad, (2000)
Chaeshick Chung, "Specification and Estimation of Target Zone Models for Foreign Exchange Markets", (1998)
Adrian Austin, Interest Rates and Regime Shifts, (1998)
Waping Wang, Essays on Financial Volatility, (1998)
Scott Mixon, Estimation of Diffusions, (1997)
Ming Liu, Essays in Financial Volatility, (April 1996)
Romulo Chumacero, Intertemporal Asset Pricing without Consumption Data: An Application of the Efficient Method of Moments Estimation Technique, (1995)
Paige Wellensiek, Modeling the Term Structure of Interest Rates, (1995)
Harold Zhang, Estimation and Calibration of Heterogeneous-Agent Models, (1994)
Shigeyuki Hamori, Tests of the Asset Pricing Model in a Monetary Economy: Some Evidence from the U.S.A. and Japan, (1991)
George Mokrzan, Aggregate Shocks and the Test of the Sectoral Employment Demand Hypothesis, (1990)
Joo-Ha Nam, Habit-Persistence/Durability, Taxation and Seasonality in Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Model, (1990)
Robert Hussey, Seminonparametric Modeling of Aggregate Employment Dynamics, (1989)
Marilyn Dutton, International Real Interest Equality Based on Price Indexes for Traded Goods, (1989)
Allan Brunner, Nonlinearities in U.S. Business Cycles, (1989)
Peter Muoio, Empirical Tests of the Utility-Based Asset Pricing Model Using Temporally Aggregated Twentieth Century Data, (1988)
Anthony Becker, An Econometric Analysis of the Nuclear Arms Race, (1986)
Charles Gilbert, A Panel Data Approach to Testing the Natural Rate Hypothesis, (September 1984)
Mark Kumm, Comparison of the Generalized Box-Cox and Fourier Functional Forms for Analysis of Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing Experiments, (1981)
Augusto Lopex, Inflation and Exchange Rates in Latin America, (December 1981)
Mark Pitts, The Relationship of Trading Volume to the Probability Distribution of Speculative Price Changes, (1980)
Javier Salas, A Rational Expectations Macroeconomic Model of the Mexican Economy, (1979)

Conference Invitations and Seminar Invitations:


3-5 major national and international conferences per year

Seminars given at every major research university



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