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The Zellner Thesis Award in Business and
Economic Statistics
To cite this article: (2011) The Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 29:4, 595-596, DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2011.294za
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The Zellner Thesis Award in Business and
Economic Statistics
2012 Zellner Award Competition
The Business and Economic Statistics Section of the Amer-ican Statistical Association announces the competition for the 2012 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 Professor of Economics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. A pioneer in econometrics, Professor Zell-ner is widely recognized as one of the most influential statisti-cians of the 20th century primarily for his lifelong contributions to the use of Bayesian methods. He is past Chair of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, past President of the Ameri-can 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 2012 Zellner award are the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Associ-ation under the auspices of theJournal 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 2012 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, 2012
Eligibility
Theses are eligible for the Zellner Award if they have been defended in the preceding two years, January 2010 to December 2011, 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 athttp:// www.amstat.org/ sections/ bus_econ/ zellner.htmlor by contact-ing 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
2011—Winner: Kirill Evdokimov, Yale University thesis, “Essays on Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometric Models.”Honorable Mentions:Xu Cheng, Yale University the-sis, “Essays on Weak Identification and Cointegrating Rank Se-lection,” and Brian T. Kelly, New York University thesis, “Es-says in Asset Pricing and the Econometrics of Risk.”
2010—Co-Winners:Francesco Bianchi, Princeton University thesis, “Three Essays in Macroeconometrics,” and Roopesh Ranjan, University of Washington thesis, “Combining and Evaluating Probabilistic Forecasts.”
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2009—Winner: Amanda Kowalski, MIT thesis, “Essays on Medical Care Using Semi-Parametric and Structural Economet-rics.”Honorable Mention:Xun Tang, Northwestern University thesis, “Essays in Empirical Auctions and Partially Identified Econometric Models.”
2008—Winner: Victor Todorov, Duke University thesis, “Jump Processes in Finance: Modeling, Simulation, Inference, and Pricing.” Honorable Mention: Andriy Norets, University of Iowa thesis, “Bayesian Inference for Dynamically Discrete Choice Models.”
2007—Winner:Panle Jia, Yale University thesis, “Entry and Competition in the Retail and Service Industries.”Honorable Mention:Azeem Shaikh, Stanford University thesis, “Inference for Partially Identified Econometric Models.”
2006—Winner: Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Yale University thesis, “Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Models With Multiple Agents.”Honorable Mention:Zhongjun Qu, Boston University thesis, “Essays on Structural Change, Long Memory and Coin-tegration,” and Stephen P. Ryan, Duke University thesis, “Envi-ronmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry.”
2005—Winner: Motohiro Yogo, Harvard University thesis, “Essays on Consumption and Expected Returns.” Honorable Mention:Morten Ø. Nielsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark, thesis, “Multivariate Fractional Integration and Cointegration,” and Giorgio E. Primiceri, Princeton University thesis, “The Ef-fect of Stabilization Policy on U.S. Postwar Business Cycle Fluctuations.”
2004—Winner: Francesca Molinari, Northwestern Univer-sity thesis, “Contaminated, Corrupted and Missing Data.” Hon-orable Mention:Rebecca Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley thesis, “Empirical Essays on Vertical Contracts, Ex-change Rates, and Monetary Policy,” and Andrew Patton, Uni-versity of California, San Diego thesis, “Applications of Copula Theory in Financial Econometrics.”
2003—Winner: Jin Gyo Kim, University of Toronto thesis, “Three Essays on Bayesian Choice Models.”
2002—Winner: Arie Beresteanu, Northwestern University thesis, “Nonparametric Estimation of Supermodular Regression Functions With Application to Telecommunications.” Honor-able Mention: Goveert Bijwaard, Free University of Amster-dam thesis, “Rank Estimation of Duration Models.”
2001—Co-Winners: Mikhail Chernov, The Pennsylvania State University thesis, “Essays in Financial Econometrics,”
and Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University thesis, “Essays in Monetary Policy and Asset Pricing.”
2000—Winner:Elie T. Tamer, Northwestern University the-sis, “Studies in Incomplete Econometric Models.”Honorable Mention: Alberto Abadie, MIT thesis, “Semiparametric In-strumental Variable Methods for Causal Response Models,” and Han Hong, Stanford University thesis, “Equilibrium and Econometric Model of Ascending Auctions.”
1999—Co-Winners: Qiang Dai, Stanford University thesis, “Specification Analysis of Affine Term Structure Models,” and Keisuke Hirano, Harvard University thesis, “Essays on the Econometric Analysis of Panel Data.”
1998—Winner: Patrick L. Bajari, University of Minnesota thesis, “The First Price Sealed Bid Auction With Asymmetric Bidders: Theory With Applications.”Honorable Mention:Tong Li, University of Southern California thesis, “Affiliated Private Values in OCS Wildcat Auctions,” and Ahmet K. Tahmiscioglu, University of Southern California thesis, “A Bayesian Analysis of Pooling Cross-Section and Time Series Data: An Investiga-tion of Company Investment Behavior.”
1997—Winner:Jeffrey Currie, University of Chicago thesis, “The Geographic Extent of the Market: Theory and Applica-tion to U.S. Petroleum Markets.”Honorable Mention: Jason Abrevaya, MIT thesis, “Semiparametric Estimation Methods for Nonlinear Panel Data Models and Mismeasured Dependent Variables,” and Stephen Gray, Stanford University thesis, “Es-says in Financial Economics.”
1996—Winner:Ekaterini Kyriazidou, Northwestern Univer-sity thesis, “Essays in Estimation and Testing of Econometric Models.”Honorable Mention:Graham Elliot, Harvard Univer-sity thesis, “Application of Local to Unity Asymptotic Theory to Time Series Regression.”
1995—Winner:Marjorie Rosenberg, University of Michigan thesis, “A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of the Rate of Non-Acceptable In-Patient Hospital Utilization.” Honorable Men-tion:Phillip Braun, University of Chicago thesis, “Asset Pricing and Capital Investment.”
1994—Winner:Geert Bekaert, Northwestern University the-sis, “Empirical Analysis of Foreign Exchange Markets: Gen-eral Equilibrium Perspectives.” Honorable Mention: Yacine Aït-Sahalia, MIT thesis, “Nonparametric Functional Estimation With Applications to Financial Models.”
