Conference - speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kris JACOBS (C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston)

Kris Jacobs is professor of Finance. He published numerous articles in leading journals including Review of Financial Studis, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Econometrics. He is also associate Editor of Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance and Financial Management.

Jun YU (Singapore Management University)

Jun Yu is professor of Econometrics, fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and Inaugural Fellow, Society of Financial Econometrics (SoFiE). He published more than 70 articles in leading journal including Management Science, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Review of Financial Studies, Quantitative Economicsa and International Economic Reviews. He is also associate Editor of Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory and Journal of Financial Econometrics.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Ilze KALNINA (North Carolina State University)

Ilze Kalnina is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, North Carolina State University. She published several articles in international journals including Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Esther Ruiz ORTEGA (Department of Statistics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Esther Ruiz Ortega is professor of econometrics at the Department of Statistics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research areas are time-series and financial econometrics, stochastic volatility models, unobserved component models, bootstrap procedures for prediction intervals and dynamic factor models. She is senior editor of International Journal of Forecasting and Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters. She published more than 50 articles in international journal like International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Review of Economic Studies and Journal of Econometrics.

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