Vendredi 4 mai | Friday, May 4 |
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8:25am – 8:30am | Mot de bienvenue / Welcoming Address |
8:30am – 10:15am | Session I Président / Chair : Eric Jacquier (HEC Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) George Jiang (University of Arizona) (avec/with Abdoul Sam) Nonparametric Estimation of the Short Rate Diffusion Process from a Panel of Yields
Dobrislav Dobrev (Northwestern University) Capturing Volatility from Large Price Moves : Generalized Range Theory and Applications Éric Renault (University of North Carolina) (avec/with Yanqin Fan, Sergio Pastorello) Maximization by Parts in Extremum Estimation Commentateurs / Discussants: Jianqing Fan (Princeton University) Kim Christensen (University of Aarhus) Marine Carrasco (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) |
10:15am – 10:45am | Pause / Break |
10:45am – 12:30pm | Session II Président / Chair : Jeroen Rombouts (HEC Montréal) Peter Christoffersen (McGill University, CIREQ, CIRANO) (avec/with Kris Jacobs, Lotfi El-Karoui, Karim Mimouni) Estimating Term Structure Models Using Swap Rates Matthew Harding (MIT, Harvard University) Structural Estimation of High-Dimensional Factor Models : Uncovering the Effect of Global Factors on the US Economy Nour Meddahi (Imperial College, CIREQ, CIRANO) (avec/with Bruno Feunou) Generalized Affine Models Commentateurs / Discussants: Bob Kimmel (The Ohio State University) Alexei Onatski (Columbia University) Christian Gouriéroux (University of Toronto) |
12:30pm – 2:00pm | Lunch |
2:00pm – 3:10pm | Session III Président / Chair : John Galbraith (McGill University, CIREQ, CIRANO) Rob Engle (New York University) (avec/with Bryan Kelly) Dynamic Equicorrelation Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina) (avec/with Xilong Chen) News – Good or Bad – and Its Impact Over Multiple Horizons Commentateurs / Discussants: Peter Christoffersen (McGill University, CIREQ, CIRANO) Benoit Perron (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) |
3:10pm – 3:40pm | Pause / Break |
3:40pm – 5:25pm | Session IV Président / Chair : Bryan Kelly (Stern School of Business) Allan Timmermann (University of California at San Diego) (avec/with Tolga Cenesizoglu) Predictability of Stock Returns : A Quantile Regression Approach Debrah Meloso (Caltech) (avec/with Peter Bossaerts) Portfolio Correlation and the Power of Portfolio Efficiency Tests Viktor Todorov (Duke University) Variance Risk Premium Dynamics Commentateurs / Discussants: Raffaella Giacomini (UCLA) Kris Jacobs (McGill University, CIREQ, CIRANO) Mikhail Chernov (London Business School) |
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Samedi 5 mai | Saturday, May 5 |
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9:00am – 10:10am | Session V Président / Chair : Bryan Campbell (Concordia University, CIREQ, CIRANO) Dennis Kristensen (University of Columbia) (avec/with Yongseok Shin) Estimation of Dynamic Models with Nonparametric Simulated Maximum Likelihood Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton University) (avec/with Jean Jacod) Testing for Jumps in a Discretely Observed Process Commentateurs / Discussants: George Tauchen (Duke University) Cecilia Mancini (University of Firenze) |
10:10am – 10:35am | Pause / Break |
10:35am – 12:20pm | Session VI Président / Chair : Lars Stentoft (HEC Montréal) Tom McCurdy (University of Toronto) (avec/with John Maheu) How Useful Are Historical Data for Forecasting the Long-Run Equity Return Distribution? Jessica Wachter (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania) (avec/with Missaka Warusawitharana) What is the Chance that the Equity Premium Varies over Time? Evidence from Predictive Regressions Dana Kiku (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania) (avec/with Ravi Bansal, Amir Yaron) Risks for the Long Run : Estimation and Inference Commentateurs / Discussants: Nick Polson (University of Chicago) Michael Johannes (Columbia Business School) Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Kellogg School of Management) |
12:20pm – 1:45pm | Lunch |
1:45pm – 3:30pm | Session VII Président / Chair : Tolga Cenesizoglu (HEC Montréal) Michael Brandt (Duke University) (avec/with David Chapman) Linear Approximations and Tests of Conditional Pricing Models René Garcia (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) (avec/with Richard Luger) Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Substitution, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates Gurdip Bakshi (University of Maryland) (avec/with Dilip Madan) Investor Heterogeneity, Long–Short Equity Positions, Aggregation, and the Non-Monotonicity of the Aggregate Marginal Rate of Substitution in the Price of Market-Equity Commentateurs / Discussants: Ray Kan (Rotman School of Management) Hao Zhou (Federal Reserve) René Garcia (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) |
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3:30pm | Clôture / Adjourn |