Events
Week of Events
Seminars in Economics Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
Seminars in Economics Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
“Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations” abstract In the United States, federal and state governments spent nearly $21 billion in 2014 on the enforcement of environmental regulations and laws, including the Clean Air Act and Amendments and the Clean Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency uses a dynamic approach to…
Seminars in Statistics Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham)
Seminars in Statistics Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham)
Latent Branching Trees: Modelling and Bayesian Computation. In this talk a novel class of semi-parametric time series models will bepresented, for which we can specify in advance the marginal distributionof the observations and then build the dependence structure of theobservations around them by introducing an underlying stochastic processtermed as 'latent branching tree'. It will be…