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CIREQ
Conference on GMM
/ Colloque CIREQ sur MMG
Montréal,
16-17 novembre/November 2007
Salle/Room Léonard-Gagnon, 6e étage/6th
floor
| Vendredi
16 novembre |
Friday,
November 16
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| 08:30
- 09:00 |
Bienvenue
et inscriptions / Welcome and registration
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| 09:00
- 10:30 |
SESSION
I
Président / Chair : Nour
MEDDAHI (Imperial College London, CIREQ)
Manual Arellano
(CEMFI), Lars
Peters HANSEN (University of Chicago), Enrique Sentana
(CEMFI)
Underidentification Revisited
Alastair
HALL (University of Manchester, North Carolina State University),
Sanggohn Han (Hyundai Research Institute), Otilia Boldea (Tilburg
University)
Inference
Regarding Multiple Changes in Linear Models Estimated via Two
Stage Least Squares
Caio Almeida
(Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro), René
GARCIA (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO)
Empirical Likelihood Estimators for Stochastic Discount Factors
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| 10:30
- 11:00 |
Pause
/ Break |
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| 11:00
- 12:30 |
SESSION
II
Président / Chair : Silvia
GONÇALVES (Université de Montréal,
CIREQ)
Donald Andrews
(Yale University), Marcelo Moreira, James
H. STOCK (Harvard University)
Efficient
Two-Sided Nonsimilar Invariant Tests in IV Regression with Weak
Instruments
Guido
KUERSTEINER (University of California at Davis), Ryo Okui
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Estimator Averaging for Two Stage Least Squares
Mehmet
CANER (North Carolina State University), Nese Yildiz (Rochester
University)
Jackknife
CUE with Many Weak Moments and Nearly-Singular Design
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| 12:30
- 14:00 |
Lunch (Salle/Room Gérard-Delage, 6e étage/6th floor)
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| 14:00
- 15:30
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SESSION
III
Président / Chair : Fallaw
SOWELL (Carnegie Mellon University)
Donald
W.K. ANDREWS (Yale University, CIREQ)
Inference
for Parameters Defined by Moment Inequalities Using Generalized
Moment Selection
Jean-Marie
DUFOUR (McGill University, CIREQ, CIRANO), Frédéric
Jouneau-Sion, Olivier Torrès (Université de Lille)
Testability and Methods of Moments in Nonparametric and Semiparametric
Models"
Yuichi
KITAMURA, Taisuke Otsu, Kirill Evdokimov (Yale University)
Robustness, Infinitesimal Neighborhoods, and Moment Restrictions
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| 15:30
- 17:00 |
Pause /
Break - POSTER SESSION (Salle/Room Gérard-Delage, 6e étage/6th floor)
Mike
AGUILAR, Éric Renault (University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill)
Simulation - Based Truncated GMM
Stanislav
ANATOLYEV (New Economic School, Moscow)
Inference
in Regression Models with Many Regressors
Bertille
ANTOINE (Simon Fraser University), Éric
Renault (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CIREQ, CIRANO)
Testing
Parameters in GMM without Assuming that They are Identified :
A Comment
Martin
BURDA (University of Toronto)
Locally Weighted Generalized Minimum Contrast Estimation under
Conditional Moment Restrictions
Pierre
CHAUSSÉ (Université du Québec à
Montréal)
Generalized Empirical Likelihood for a Continuum of Moment
Conditions
Nikolay
GOSPODINOV (Concordia University, CIREQ), Taisuke Otsu
(Yale University)
Local GMM Estimation of Time Series Models with Conditional
Moment Restrictions
Alain
GUAY (Université du Québec à Montréal,
CIREQ), Jean-François Lamarche (Brock University)
The Information Content of Implied Probabilities to Detect
Structural Change
Marine Carrasco, Rachidi KOTCHONI
(Université de Montréal, CIREQ)
Optimal Choice of the Regularization Parameter for GMM Estimation
Based on the Characteristic Function
Pascal
LAVERGNE (Simon Fraser University), Valentin Patilea (CREST-ENSAI)
Efficient
Smooth GMM and Dimension Reduction
Victoria Hnatkovska,
Vadim MARMER,
Yao Tang (University of British Columbia)
"Comparison of Misspecified Calibrated Models: The Minimum
Distance Approach
Jean-Marie
Dufour (McGill University, CIREQ, CIRANO), Pascale
VALÉRY (HEC Montréal)
Regularized Inference in a GMM Framework
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SESSION
IV
Président
/ Chair : Benoit
PERRON (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO)
Gary
CHAMBERLAIN, Marcelo Moreira (Harvard University)
Decision
Theory Applied to a Linear Panel Data Model
Thomas Severini,
Gautam TRIPATHI
(University of Connecticut)
Efficiency
Bounds for Estimating Linear Functionals of Nonparametric Regression
Models with Endogenous Regressors
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| 19:00 |
Conference
Dinner |
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| Samedi
17 novembre |
Saturday,
November 17
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| 09:00
- 10:30 |
SESSION
V
Président / Chair : Marc
HENRY (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO)
Jerry Hausman,
Whitney
NEWEY (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tiemen
Wootersen (John Hopkins University), John Chao (Maryland University),
Norman Swanson (Rutgers University)
Instrumental
Variable Estimation with Heteroskedasticity and Many Instruments
Richard
SMITH (University of Cambridge), Patrik Guggenberger (University
of California, Los Angeles), Joaquim J.S. Ramalho (Universidade
de Évora)
GEL
Pearson-Type Statistics under Weak Identification
Bertille Antoine
(Simon Fraser University), Éric
RENAULT (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
CIREQ, CIRANO)
Efficient
Minimum Distance Estimation with Multiple Rates of Convergence
(preliminary
paper 2)
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| 10:30
- 11:00 |
Pause
/ Break |
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| 11:00
- 12:30 |
SESSION
VI
Président / Chair : Vicky
ZINDE-WALSH (McGill University, CIREQ)
Jiang Huang
(University of Iowa), Joel
HOROWITZ (Nothwestern University, CIREQ), Shuangge Ma
(Yale University)
Asymptotic
Properties of Bridge Estimators in Sparse, High-Dimensional Regression
Models
Jean-Pierre
FLORENS (GREMAQ, Université de Toulouse 1), Sebastien
Van Bellegem (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Hilbert-Scale Regularization for Functional Estimation under
Conditional Moment Conditions
Xiaohong
CHEN (Yale University), Demian Pouzo (New York University)
On Estimation of Semi/Nonparametric Conditional Moment Models
with Possibly Nonsmooth Moments
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| 12:30
- 14:00 |
Lunch
(Salle/Room Gérard-Delage, 6e étage/6th floor) |
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| 14:00
- 16:00 |
SESSION
VII (Salle/Room Léonard-Gagnon, 6e étage/6th floor)
Président / Chair : Lynda
KHALAF (Carleton University, CIREQ)
Christian
BONTEMPS (Toulouse School of Economics), Thierry Magnac
(TSE, IDEI), Eric Maurin (PSE)
Set Identified Linear Models
Atsushi
INOUE (University of British Columbia), Alastair Hall
(University of Manchester, North Carolina State University), James
M. Nason (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Barbara Rossi (Duke
University)
Information
Criteria for Impulse Response Function Matching Estimation of
DSGE Models
Alastair Hall
(North Carolina State University, University of Manchester),
Denis PELLETIER
(North Carolina State University)
Non-Nested
Testing in Models Estimated via Generalized Method of Moments
Marine
CARRASCO (Université de Montréal, CIREQ,
CIRANO)
A
Regularization Approach to the Many Instruments Problem
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