Curriculum Vitae
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Department of Economics 213 Social Science Box 90097 Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0097
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- Personal
Date of this CV: April 15, 2008
Birth date: November 26, 1949
- Education
| PhD | University of Minnesota | 1978 |
| BA | University of Minnesota | 1971 |
- 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
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- William Henry Glasson Professor of Economics, Duke University, 1997 - present
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- Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, 1987 - present
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- Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Economics, Duke University, 1983-1987
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- 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
Last modified: 2008/04/15
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