University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory
2005 Institute on Computational Economics
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ICE 2005 TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
July 18, 2005
Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory
See ORGANIZERS: Affiliates for brief bio.
July 19, 2005
Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory
See ORGANIZERS: Affiliates for brief bio.
Edward Simpson Prescott, The Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995.
Research Interests:
Financial intermediation, the theory of the firm,
and private information theory. More narrowly firms in general equilibrium, bank
regulation, communication in private information models, and methods for solving
private information programs. I also study the need and use of financial
services by low-income people.
July 20, 2005
Kenneth Judd, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
See ORGANIZERS: Chairs of the Committee for brief bio.
July 21, 2005
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2001.
Kravis Award
for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, 2004; University of Pennslyvania
Research Foundation Grant, 2003.
Research Interests:
Formulation of dynamic equilibrium models, their efficient computation and
their estimation.
Felix Kubler, University of Mannheim
Ph.D., Yale University,
1999.
NSF grant, 2001;
Center for Economics Policy Research, 1999.
Research Interests:
Observable Restrictions of General Equilibrium Models, General Equilibrium,
Money and Finance, Computational Methods for General Equilibrium Analysis.
July 22, 2005
John F. Geweke, University of Iowa
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1975.
Alfred P.
Sloan Research Fellow, 1982; Fellow American Statistical Association, 1990;
Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1982.
Research Interests:
Bayesian econometrics and statistics, Time Series Analysis, Financial
Economics, Industrial Organization, and Demand Analysis.
Nick Polson, University of
Chicago, GSB
Ph.D., University
of Nottingham, 1988.
Research Interests: Financial Econometrics and Statistics, Markov Chain
Monte Carlo, and Bayesian Analysis.
