IAAE 2014 Annual Conference

International Association for Applied Econometrics

Call for Papers

IAAE 2014 Annual Conference International Association for Applied Econometrics Conference

Queen Mary University of London, June 26-28, 2014

The first annual conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics will be held at Queen Mary University of London, on June 26-28, 2014.

The main aims of IAAE are to advance the education of the public in the subject of econometrics and its applications to a variety of fields in economics, in particular, but not exclusively, by advancing and supporting research in that field, and disseminating the results of such useful research to the public.

The conference will bring together leading researchers in the field and will be a major forum where all aspects of econometrics (theory and practice) will be discussed and debated.

Keynote Speakers David F. Hendry, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford, and Director, Program in Economic Modeling, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Cheng Hsiao, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California James Hamilton, Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego Rosa L. Matzkin, Charles E. Davidson Professor of Economics, University of California Los Angeles

JAE Lecturer Jean-Marc Robin, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics of Sciences Po, Paris and University College London

Organizers Badi H. Baltagi, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Syracuse University, and Director of IAAE Fabio Canova, Pierre Werner Chair in Monetary Economics at the Schuman Center, EUI and Chair in Econometrics, Department of Economics, EUI, and Director of IAAE Marcelle Chauvet (Program Co-Chair), Professor, University of California Riverside, and Director of IAAE Hashem Pesaran, John Elliot Chair of Economics, and Director of Centre for Applied Financial Economics, University of Southern California, and Director of IAAE Barbara Rossi (Program Co-Chair), Professor, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE, CREI, and Director of IAAE

Local Organizers

Natalia Bailey, Liudas Giraitis, George Kapetanios and Haroon Mumtaz, Queen Mary University of London (Local Organizing Committee Members)

Scientific Committee Badi Baltagi, Syracuse University Christian Belzil, École Polytechnique Richard Blundell, University College of London Peter Boswijk, Amsterdam School of Economics Fabio Canova, European University Institute Marcelle Chauvet, University of California Riverside Valentina Corradi, University of Warwick Graham Elliott, University of California San Diego Atsushi Inoue, Southern Methodist University Bryan Graham, University of California Berkeley George Kapetanios, Queen Mary University Siem Jan Koopman, VU University Amsterdam Michael Lechner, University of St Gallen Tong Li, Vanderbilt University Thierry Magnac, Tolouse School of Economics Massimiliano Marcellino, European University Institute Serena Ng, Columbia University Hashem Pesaran, University of Southern California Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University Barbara Rossi, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra John Rust, Georgetown University Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania Matthew Shum, Caltech University Allan Timmermann, University of California San Diego Pravin Trivedi, Indiana University Francis Vella, Georgetown University Quang Vuong, New York University Edward Vytlacil, New York University Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Michigan State University Jonathan Wright, Johns Hopkins University

Registration

Conference details will be posted on the IAAE’s website: http://appliedeconometrics.org/

Logistics

The conference will be held on June 26-28 on the campus of Queen Mary University.

For further logistic information, please contact Elizabeth Price at [email protected]

Paper Submission Procedure

Authors are invited to submit theoretical and empirical papers/or abstracts on the suggested topics. Papers should be submitted electronically (pdf only) no later than February 1, 2014 to: http://editorialexpress.com/conference/IAAE2014

Student Prize

The IAAE will award a 500 USD prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student in the poster session. To be eligible, candidates' paper submissions should be followed up by a letter from a professor certifying that the submitter is a graduate student in good standing. The paper should be submitted at the conference website. The letter should be submitted electronically to [email protected]. The winner will be announced during the conference.