Plenary Speakers
Sergio Rebelo
Lecture sponsored by Czech
National Bank
Friday, June 29 at 2:15 p.m.
"Understanding Booms and
Busts in Housing Markets"
Dr. Rebelo is
the Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance at the
Kellogg School of Management, where he has served as Chair of the Finance
Department. Prior to joining Kellogg, Rebelo taught at the University of
Rochester and at the Portuguese Catholic University. He does research on
macroeconomics and international finance. He has studied the causes of
business cycles, the impact of economic policy on economic growth, and the
sources of exchange rate fluctuations. His research has been financed by the
National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Sloan Foundation, and the
Olin Foundation. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the National
Bureau of Economic Research, and of the Center for Economic Policy Research.
He has been a member of the editorial board of various academic journals,
including the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the
Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Economic Growth. He has
won numerous teaching awards at the Kellogg School of Management, including
the Executive Masters Program Outstanding Professor Award and the Professor
of the Year Award. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the
International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, the European Central Bank, the McKinsey Global Institute, and other
organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of
Rochester.
Siem Jan Koopman
Lecture sponsored by CEPREMAP
Wednesday, June 27 at 2:30 p.m.
"Generalized Autoregressive Score Models for
Time-Varying Parameters in Economics and Finance"
Dr. Koopman
is Professor
of Econometrics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and research fellow at
the Tinbergen Institute since 1999. His Ph.D. is from the London School of
Economics (LSE) and dates back to 1992. He had positions at the LSE between
1992 and 1997 and at the CentER (Tilburg University) between 1997 and 1999.
In 2002 he visited the US Bureau of the Census in Washington DC as an ASA/NSF/US
Census/BLS Research Fellow. More recently, in 2010 he was a Fernand Braudel
Senior Fellow at the Department of Economics, European University Institute
in Florence. His research output is close to 100 publications in refereed
journals. His book with J. Durbin, "Time series analysis by state space
methods", is well-known; the second edition will appear in 2012. His
research interests are statistical and econometric analysis of time series,
financial econometrics, simulation-based methods, forecasting and the Kalman
filter. He fulfills editorial duties at Journal of Applied Econometrics,
Journal of Forecasting and Journal of Multivariate Analysis. Finally he is
an OxMetrics software developer and is actively engaged in the development
of the time series software packages STAMP and SsfPack for Timberlake
Consultants Ltd.
Richard S. J. Tol
Lecture sponsored by Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control
Thursday, June 28 at 2:30 p.m.
"Targets
for Global Climate Policy"
Dr. Tol is a Professor of Economics, University of Sussex and Professor of
the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and
Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Formerly he
was a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute,
Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at
Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and
Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University. He has had visiting appointments
at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British
Colombia, at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global
Environment, University College London, and at the Princeton Environmental
Institute and the Department of Economics, Princeton University. He received
an M.Sc. in econometrics (1992) and a Ph.D. in economics (1997) from the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is ranked among the top 200 economists in
the world, and has 194 publications in learned journals (with 100+
co-authors), 3 books, 5 major reports, 37 book chapters, and many minor
publications. He specialises in the economics of energy, environment, and
climate, and is interested in integrated assessment modelling. He is an
editor for Energy Economics, and an associate editor of economics
the e-journal. He is advisor and referee of national and international
policy and research. He is an author (contributing, lead, principal and
convening) of Working Groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, shared winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007; an author
and editor of the UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact
Assessment and Adaptation Strategies; a GTAP Research Fellow; and a member
of the Academia Europaea. He is actively involved in the European Climate
Forum, the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment, and the
Energy Modelling Forum.
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