Andrew J. Patton, Zelter Family Distinguished Professor

Patton’s research interests lie in financial econometrics, with an emphasis on forecasting volatility and dependence, forecast evaluation methods, and the analysis of hedge funds and mutual funds. His research has appeared in a variety of academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He has given hundreds of invited seminars around the world, at universities, central banks, and other institutions. A complete list of his current and past research is available at: http://econ.duke.edu/~ap172/research.html

Contact Info:

Office Location:	228F Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-1849
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://public.econ.duke.edu/~ap172/

Teaching (Spring 2021):

• ECON 104D.001, FDN OF ECONOMETRICS & DATA SCI Synopsis

  Online ON, TuTh 12:00 PM-01:15 PM

• ECON 104D.01D, FDN OF ECONOMETRICS & DATA SCI Synopsis

  Online ON, W 08:30 AM-09:20 AM

• ECON 104D.02D, FDN OF ECONOMETRICS & DATA SCI Synopsis

  Online ON, F 03:30 PM-04:20 PM

• ECON 104D.03D, FDN OF ECONOMETRICS & DATA SCI Synopsis

  Online ON, M 12:00 PM-12:50 PM

• ECON 104D.04D, FDN OF ECONOMETRICS & DATA SCI Synopsis

  Online ON, Tu 08:30 AM-09:20 AM

• ECON 104D.05D, FDN OF ECONOMETRICS & DATA SCI Synopsis

  Online ON, Th 05:15 PM-06:05 PM

• ECON 707D.001, ECONOMETRICS II Synopsis

  Online ON, TuTh 01:45 PM-03:00 PM

• ECON 707D.01D, ECONOMETRICS II Synopsis

  Online ON, Th 06:15 PM-07:05 PM

• ECON 707D.02D, ECONOMETRICS II Synopsis

  TBA, -

• ECON 957S.01, RSRCH SEM: FINANL ECONOMETRICS Synopsis

  Online ON, M 12:00 PM-01:30 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California - San Diego	2002
M.A.	University of California - San Diego	2000
B.Bus.	University of Technology Sydney (Australia)	1998

Specialties:

Econometrics
Financial Economics
Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
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Macroeconomics

Research Interests: Time series econometrics and financial economics

Professor Patton’s research areas include econometrics, financial economics and forecasting. His work focuses on improved models for risk and dependence between financial assets, methods for forecast evaluation and comparison, and empirical asset pricing. Patton's recent publications include "Simulated Method of Moments Estimation for Copula-Based Multivariate Models" (2013, Journal of the American Statistical Association, joint with Dong Hwan Oh), "On the High Frequency Dynamics of Hedge Fund Risk Exposures" (2013, Journal of Finance, joint with Tarun Ramadorai) and "Copula Methods for Forecasting Multivariate Time Series" (2012, Handbook of Economic Forecasting). His research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) and Inquire UK. A complete list of his current and past research is available at: http://econ.duke.edu/~ap172/research.html

Areas of Interest:

Econometrics
Financial economics
Forecasting
Copulas
Time series
Volatility
Hedge funds

Keywords:

Inference

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Patton, AJ, Comparing Possibly Misspecified Forecasts, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, vol. 38 no. 4 (October, 2020), pp. 796-809 [doi]  [abs]
2. Patton, AJ; Weller, BM, What you see is not what you get: The costs of trading market anomalies, Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 137 no. 2 (August, 2020), pp. 515-549 [doi]  [abs]
3. Bollerslev, T; Patton, AJ; Quaedvlieg, R, Multivariate leverage effects and realized semicovariance GARCH models, Journal of Econometrics, vol. 217 no. 2 (August, 2020), pp. 411-430 [doi]  [abs]
4. Bollerslev, T; Li, J; Patton, AJ; Quaedvlieg, R, Realized Semicovariances, Econometrica, vol. 88 no. 4 (July, 2020), pp. 1515-1551 [doi]  [abs]
5. Bollerslev, T; Patton, AJ; Quaedvlieg, R, Realized Semibetas: Signs of Things to Come (February, 2020)