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Conference in honour of Professor Ron Smith

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Venue: Senate House

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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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