5th Annual Advances in Econometrics Conference

Econometrics of Risk Management

Lod and Carol Cook Conference Center www.cookconferencecenter.com

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

November 3-5, 2006

 

Friday, November 3

 

*       Arrive at LSU in the afternoon.

*       5:30-6:30 Reception

*       6:30-8:30 Dinner at Lod Cook Conference Center

 

Saturday, November 4

 

*       Breakfast (complimentary at the LSU Conference Center)

*       9:00-10:20

*       Kanak Patel and Ricardo Pereira “The Determinants of Default Correlations

*       Zhen WeiData Mining Procedures in Generalized Cox Regressions

*       10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

*       10:40-12:00

*       Daniel Totouom and Margaret Armstrong “Dynamic Copula Processes: A New Way of Modelling CDO Tranches

*       Jean-Pierre Fouque and Xianwen Zhou “Perturbed Gaussian Copula

*       12:00-1:30 Lunch Break (Box Lunches provided in LSU Conference Center)

*       1:30-2:50

*       Wenbo Hu and Alec N. KerchevalThe Skewed t Distribution for Portfolio Credit Risk

*       Jingyi ZhuJump Diffusion in Credit Modeling: A Partial Integro-differential Equation Approach”

*       2:50-3.10 Coffee Break

*       3.10-400 Paper Presentation

*       Andrei Lopatin and Timur MisirpashaevTwo-Dimensional Markovian Model for Dynamics of Aggregate Credit Loss

*       6:30-9:00 Dinner at Juban’s, a “Louisiana Style” restaurant www.jubans.com

 

Sunday, November 5

*       Breakfast (complimentary at the LSU Conference Center)

*       9:00-10:20

*       Knut Solna and Rafael DeSantiago, "Interest rate market with stochastic volatility

*       Don Chance, Eric Hillebrand and Jimmy Hilliard “Pricing an Option on Movie Revenue: Theory and Application

*       10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

*       10:40-11:30 Round Table Discussion of Credit Risk, moderated by Jean-Pierre Fouque, Knut Solna and Don Chance

*       11:30 Lunch (Box Lunches provided in LSU Conference Center) and Departure

 

For information on the Advances in Econometrics conference, contact Carter Hill (eohill@lsu.edu). 

For more information on the Department of Economics or the Ourso College visit www.bus.lsu.edu.