ICE 2006 SPEAKERS

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2001
Research Interests: Formulation of dynamic equilibrium models, their efficient computation and their estimation.

John Geweke, University of Iowa
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1975
Research Interests: Bayesian Analysis, Computation and Communication in the Social Sciences, Flexible Bayesian Econometric Modeling, Analysis of Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility.
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Han Hong, Duke University
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998
Research Interests: theoretical econometrics and econometric applications in applied microeconomics. Some of his recent research focused on structural estimation of empirical auction models and Monte Carlo Markov chain based estimation methods.
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Shinichi Nishiyama, Georgia State University
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2000
Research Interests: applications of dynamic general equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents to problems in a household’s risk sharing and social insurance.
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Karl Schmedders, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996
Research Interests: Computational Economics, General Equilibrium Theory, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Choice
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Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1995
Research Interests: Social insurance programs; incomplete markets; annuity markets; tax reform; pricing government guarantees
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Greg Thain, University of Wisconsin
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Stephen J. Wright, University of Wisconsin
Ph.D., University of Queensland, Australia, 1984
Research Interests: Algorithms for nonlinear optimization Interior-point methods. Optimization software: PCx (linear programming), OOQP (convex quadratic programming). Applications of optimization to cancer radiotherapy, process control, statistics, weather forecasting, signal processing, computational biology, and other areas. Parallel optimization algorithms: Design and implementation
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