IES "Special Workshop"(Speaker:Keisuke Hirano)

       

Details

Date and Time: Tuesday, 31 May 2016, 16:30-18:00
Speaker: Keisuke Hirano (Univeristy of Arizona)
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hirano/index.html
Title: Forecasting with Model Uncertainty: Representations and Risk Reduction (tentative)
Chair: Masao Ogaki

       

Place

South School Building, #457 (5th fl.)
     

Notes

Host: the Institute for Economic Studies at Keio University
Joint with Special Workshops and Econometrics Workshop
       

Date

2016/05/31(Tue)

Event Reports

The first speaker for the Special Workshop series, which had been instituted this year, was Professor Keisuke Hirano (University of Arizona), who is the winner of the 2015 Japan Economic Association Nakahara Prize.
It was joint with macroeconomics, econometrics, and applied economics workshop series. The seminar was on estimation and forecasting in regression models when there is uncertainty about the choice of predictor variables, and involved active questions by many participants.