Conference in honour of Professor Ron Smith
When:
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Venue:
Senate House
No booking required
A conference in honour of long-term member of Faculty, Professor Ron Smith, takes place at Senate House on 6 June 2014.
Conference Programme
Opening remarks, Sandeep Kapur
The Feldstein-Horioke puzzle revisited, Jerry Coakley
Time-varying coefficient models: a proposal for selecting the Coefficient Driver Sets, Stephen Hall
Commodity risk factors and intertemporal asset pricing, Ana Maria Fuertes
On Ron's contributions to applied economics, David Foster
Forecasting global recessions in a GVAR model of actual and expected output in the G7, Kevin Lee
Transformed max likelihood estimation of short dynamic panel data models with interactive effects, Vanessa Smith
Technical analysis: is it still beating the foreign exchange market? Mark Taylor
On Ron's contribution to development economics, Derick Boyd
International security, sustainable development and the power of nations, Jacques Fontanel
The measurement of progress and the operationalisation of Sen's approach to welfare economics, Paul Anand
Debts, deficits and the real interest rate in a model of endogenous growth, George Alogoskoufis
On Ron's contribution to defence economics, Malcolm Chalmers
The demand for military spending, Paul Dunne
Strategic bombing in WWII: an economic analysis, Keith Hartley
Military aid, direct intervention and counter-terrorism, Maria Garcia-Alonso and Paul Levine
Concluding remarks (Ron Smith)
Speech at Conference Dinner, Hashem Pesaran, Reflections on my time with Ron
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Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics