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The Zellner Thesis Award in Business and
Economic Statistics
To cite this article: (2013) The Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics,
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 31:1, 122-123, DOI: 10.1080/07350015.2013.750219
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The Zellner Thesis Award in Business and
Economic Statistics
2013 Zellner Award Competition
The Business and Economic Statistics Section of the Amer-ican Statistical Association announces the competition for the 2013 Zellner Thesis Award and its $1500 prize.
The Zellner award and associated cash prize is given for the best Ph.D. thesis dealing with an applied problem in Business and Economic Statistics. It is intended to recognize outstanding work by promising young researchers in the field. The winner of the award is announced at the Annual ASA Meeting in August. A portion of the winning thesis is eligible for publication in
JBES.
The award is named in honor of the late Arnold Zellner. From 1966 until his death, he was the H.G.B. Alexander Pro-fessor of Economics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. A pioneer in econometrics, Profes-sor Zellner is widely recognized as one of the most influential statisticians of the 20th century primarily for his lifelong contri-butions to the use of Bayesian methods. He is past Chair of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, past President of the American Statistical Association, founding editor of theJournal of Business & Economic Statistics, theJournal of Econometrics, andBayesian Analysis. He founded, and was the first president of, the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He passed away on August 10, 2010.
Topics
The range of topics is broad and includes, among others, econometric methods, statistical problems in forecasting, sea-sonal adjustment, data quality, empirical studies including fi-nance, industrial organization, health, labor, general micro and macroeconomic analysis, as well as policy evaluations. Theses in the areas of computation, simulation, and graphics are eligi-ble as long as the research is of direct interest to business and economic statistics.
Sponsors
The sponsors for the 2013 Zellner award are the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association under the auspices of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and SAS Institute, Inc.
The officers of the Business and Economic Statistics Section and the editors of theJournal of Business & Economic Statistics
wish to thank the SAS Institute for their generous support of the 2013 prize.
Criteria
Review standards place substantial weight on research with significant results, high quality methodological work, substan-tial empirical content, and good exposition. The research should be of immediate and practical value for applications in business and economic statistics.
Deadline: March 31, 2013
Eligibility
Theses are eligible for the Zellner Award if they have been defended in the preceding two years, January 2011 to December 2012, and have not previously been considered for the Award.
Awards Committee
The editors ofJBESconvene the Awards Committee in con-sultation with the current Chair of the Business and Economic Statistics Section to form the Awards Committee from the Sec-tion Membership and the Editorial Board ofJBES.
Submission Procedure
Entrants must supply a web URL from which a PDF copy of the thesis can be downloaded. After posting your thesis, send an email with your name and contact information, the date and institution of your defended thesis, and the URL, to the Zellner Awards Committee atjbes-asa@hotmail.com. You will receive confirmation that your submission was received.
More information on the Zellner Award can be found on the Business and Economic Statistics Section Website at http://www.amstat.org/sections/bus_econ/zellner.html or by contacting the Awards Committee at the E-mail address listed above. Many of the winning theses and links or references to papers derived from the theses are available from the web page.
Past Recipients of the Zellner Award
2012—Winner: Alex Torgovitsky, for the Yale University thesis, “Essays in Econometric Theory.” Honorable Mention:
Zhipeng Liao, for the Yale University thesis, “Shrinkage Meth-ods for Automated Econometric Model Determination.”
2011—Winner: Kirill Evdokimov, for the Yale Univer-sity thesis, “Essays on Nonparametric and Semiparametric
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Econometric Models.” Honorable Mentions: Xu Cheng, for the Yale University thesis, “Essays on Weak Identification and Cointegrating Rank Selection,” Brian T. Kelly, for the New York University thesis, “Essays in Asset Pricing and the Econometrics of Risk.”
2010—Co-Winners: Francesco Bianchi, for the Prince-ton University thesis, “Three Essays in Macroeconometrics,” Roopesh Ranjan, for the University of Washington thesis, “Com-bining and Evaluating Probabilistic Forecasts.”
2009—Winner:Amanda Kowalski, for the MIT thesis, “Es-says on Medical Care Using Semiparametric and Structural Econometrics.”Honorable Mention:Xun Tang, for the North-western University thesis, “Essays in Empirical Auctions and Partially Identified Econometric Models.”
2008—Winner:Victor Todorov, for the Duke University the-sis, “Jump Processes in Finance: Modeling, Simulation, Infer-ence, and Pricing.”Honorable Mention:Andriy Norets, for the University of Iowa thesis, “Bayesian Inference for Dynamically Discrete Choice Models.”
2007—Winner:Panle Jia, for the Yale University thesis, “En-try and Competition in the Retail and Service Industries.” Hon-orable Mention: Azeem Shaikh, for the Stanford University thesis, “Inference for Partially Identified Econometric Models.”
2006—Winner:Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, for the Yale Uni-versity thesis, “Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Models With Multiple Agents.”Honorable Mention:Zhongjun Qu, for the Boston University thesis, “Essays on Structural Change, Long Memory and Cointegration,” Stephen P. Ryan, for the Duke University thesis, “Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry.”
2005—Winner:Motohiro Yogo, for the Harvard University thesis, “Essays on Consumption and Expected Returns.” Honor-able Mention:Morten Ø. Nielsen, for the University of Aarhus, Denmark, thesis, “Multivariate Fractional Integration and Coin-tegration,” Giorgio E. Primiceri, for the Princeton University thesis, “The Effect of Stabilization Policy on U.S. Postwar Busi-ness Cycle Fluctuations.”
2004—Winner: Francesca Molinari, for the Northwestern University thesis, “Contaminated, Corrupted and Missing Data.”
Honorable Mention:Rebecca Hellerstein, for the University of California, Berkeley thesis, “Empirical Essays on Vertical Con-tracts, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy,” Andrew Patton, for the University of California, San Diego thesis, “Applications of Copula Theory in Financial Econometrics.”
2003—Winner:Jin Gyo Kim, for the University of Toronto thesis, “Three Essays on Bayesian Choice Models.”
2002—Winner:Arie Beresteanu, for the Northwestern Uni-versity thesis, “Nonparametric Estimation of Supermodular
Regression Functions With Application to Telecommunica-tions.” Honorable Mention: Goveert Bijwaard, for the Free University of Amsterdam thesis, “Rank Estimation of Duration Models.”
2001—Co-Winners:Mikhail Chernov, for The Pennsylvania State University thesis, “Essays in Financial Econometrics,” Monika Piazzesi, for the Stanford University thesis, “Essays in Monetary Policy and Asset Pricing.”
2000—Winner:Elie T. Tamer, for the Northwestern Univer-sity thesis, “Studies in Incomplete Econometric Models.” Hon-orable Mention: Alberto Abadie, for the MIT thesis, “Semi-parametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Response Models,” Han Hong, for the Stanford University thesis, “Equi-librium and Econometric Model of Ascending Auctions.”
1999—Co-Winners: Qiang Dai, for the Stanford University thesis, “Specification Analysis of Affine Term Structure Mod-els,” Keisuke Hirano, for the Harvard University thesis, “Essays on the Econometric Analysis of Panel Data.”
1998—Winner:Patrick L. Bajari, for the University of Min-nesota thesis, “The First Price Sealed Bid Auction With Asym-metric Bidders: Theory With Applications.” Honorable Men-tion:Tong Li, for the University of Southern California thesis, “Affiliated Private Values in OCS Wildcat Auctions,” Ahmet K. Tahmiscioglu, for the University of Southern California thesis, “A Bayesian Analysis of Pooling Cross-Section and Time Series Data: An Investigation of Company Investment Behavior.”
1997—Winner:Jeffrey Currie, for the University of Chicago thesis, “The Geographic Extent of the Market: Theory and Ap-plication to U.S. Petroleum Markets.”Honorable Mention: Ja-son Abrevaya, for the MIT thesis, “Semiparametric Estimation Methods for Nonlinear Panel Data Models and Mismeasured Dependent Variables,” Stephen Gray, for the Stanford Univer-sity thesis, “Essays in Financial Economics.”
1996—Winner: Ekaterini Kyriazidou, for the Northwestern University thesis, “Essays in Estimation and Testing of Econo-metric Models.” Honorable Mention: Graham Elliot, for the Harvard University thesis, “Application of Local to Unity Asymptotic Theory to Time Series Regression.”
1995—Winner: Marjorie Rosenberg, for the University of Michigan thesis, “A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of the Rate of Non-Acceptable In-Patient Hospital Utilization.”Honorable Mention: Phillip Braun, for the University of Chicago thesis, “Asset Pricing and Capital Investment.”
1994—Winner:Geert Bekaert, for the Northwestern Univer-sity thesis, “Empirical Analysis of Foreign Exchange Markets: General Equilibrium Perspectives.”Honorable Mention:Yacine A¨ıt-Sahalia, for the MIT thesis, “Nonparametric Functional Es-timation With Applications to Financial Models.”
