11th Advances in Econometrics Conference: Essays in Honor of Jerry Hausman

Lod and Carol Cook Conference Center www.cookconferencecenter.com
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 17-19, 2012

Friday, February 17

• 5:30-6:30 Reception [Clemons room]
• 6:30-8:30 Dinner at Lod Cook Conference Center [Clemons room]

Saturday, February 18

• 9:00-10:20 Session 1
• Badi Baltagi (Syracuse) and Georges Bresson (ERMES (CNRS), Université Paris II / SORBONNE Universités), A Robust Hausman-Taylor Estimator
• George Judge (U.C.-Berkeley) and Ron Mittelhammer (Washington State University), A Risk Superior Semiparametric Stein-Like IV Estimator under Quadratic Loss
• 10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
• 10:40-12:00 Session 2
• Marco Gallegati (Università Politecnica delle Marche) and James B. Ramsey (New York University), Errors-in-Variables and the Wavelet Structural Approximation Approach: a Monte Carlo Study
• Francesco Bravo (University of York), Juan Carlos Escanciano (Indiana Unversity) and Taisuke Otsu (Yale University), A Simple Test for Identification in GMM under Conditional Moment Restrictions
• 12:00-1:30 Lunch Break (Box lunches provided for participants)
• 1:30-2:50 Session 3
• John C. Chao (University of Maryland), Jerry A. Hausman (MIT), Whitney K. Newey (MIT), Norman R. Swanson (Rutgers), and Tiemen Woutersen (University of Arizona), Testing Overidentifying Restrictions using Many Moments
• Matthew Harding (Stanford University) and Carlos Lamarche (University of Oklahoma), Quantile Regression Estimation of Panel Duration Models with Censored Data
• 2:50-3.10 Coffee Break
• 3.10-4:30 Poster Sessions
• Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University), Peter Egger (ETH Zurich) and Michaela Kesina (ETH Zurich), Small Sample Properties and Pretest Estimation of a Spatial Hausman-Taylor Model
• Hild-Marte Bjørnsen (Norwegian Agricultural Economics Institute) and Ashok Mishra (Louisiana State University), Can Multiple Job-Holding in a Household Affect Production Efficiency? A Dynamic Panel Analysis
• Hector O. Zapata (Louisiana State University), Christina M. Caminita (Louisiana State University), The Diffusion of Hausman’s Econometric Ideas
• Lee C. Adkins (Oklahoma State University), Randall C. Campbell (Mississippi State University), Viera Chmelarova and R. Carter Hill (Louisiana State University), The Hausman Test, and Some Alternatives, with Heteroskedastic Data
• Michael D. S. Morris (Oklahoma State University), Using Panel Data to Examine Racial and Gender Differences in Debt Burdens
• Gregory K. Leonard (NERA Economic Consulting), A Comparison of AIDS, Aggregate Random Coefficient Logit Demand Models,  and Individual-Level Mixed Logit Demand Models
• 5:30-8:00 Dinner at Juban’s, a “Louisiana Style” restaurant www.jubans.com

Sunday, February 19

• 9:00-10:20 Session 4
• Nicky Grant (University of Cambridge), Generalized Method of Moments With Singular Variance
• Anil Bera (University of Illinois) and Monalisa Sen (University of Illinois), TBA
• 10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
• 10:40-12:00 Session 5
• Catherine Dehon (Université libre de Bruxelles, ECARES), Marjorie Gasser (Université libre de Bruxelles, ECARES and CKE) and Vincenzo Verardi (University of Namur (CRED) and Université libre de Bruxelles, ECARES and CKE), Extending the Hausman test to check for the presence of outliers
• Jerry Hausman: Closing remarks
• 12:00 Lunch (Box lunches provided for participants) and Departure

For information: contact R. Carter Hill (eohill@lsu.edu)