CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd XMU-Humboldt Workshop on
“Nonparametric and Nonstationary Econometrics”
Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, China
School of Economics, Xiamen University, China
The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Econometrics, Xiamen University, China
The Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Statistical Sciences, Xiamen University, China
We are delighted to announce that the third XMU-Humboldt workshop organized by the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen (Amoy) University, China, and Center for Applied Statistics and Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, will be held on May 19-20, 2012 at Xiamen University.
In April 2008, the Xiaman-Humboldt workshop was first launched and held in Xiamen. In July 2010, the second Humboldt-Xiamen workshop took place at Humboldt University in Berlin, during the 200th anniversary of Humboldt University of Berlin. The previous two workshops successfully assembled many excellent papers on the frontier research in modern statistics, econometrics and related interdisciplinary work. The third workshop to be held in Xiamen is a continuation of this series of workshops.
Xiamen University is located in the beautiful island of Xiamen in Southeast China, also known as "Garden over the Sea." The forum will consist of a new series of workshop or conferences focusing on new developments of modern statistical and econometric theory and methodology as well as their applications, in particular in economics and finance. The purpose of this forum is to promote methodological, theoretical and empirical research in nonparametric and nonstationary statistics and econometrics.
The program committee invites high quality papers on related fields in nonparametric and nonstationary statistics and econometrics. To be considered for forum presentation, a PDF or a WORD file of the full paper should be submitted to our conference website
http://www.wise.xmu.edu.cn/Activity/XMU-HUB2012/ or e-mail to our conference e-mail address
xmuhumboldt@gmail.com before
April 15, 2012. The title page of the paper should include the information of the presenter (full name, affiliation, email address, phone number and fax number), up to
three JEL or IMS classifications, and up to six keywords. The decision of acceptance will be made no later than
May 1, 2012. The high quality papers will be considered for a special issue in Econometric Theory.
Organization Committee:
Marcel Bluhm, Xiamen University, Fellow of Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Ying Fang, Xiamen University
Wolfgang Haerdle (Co-Chair), Humboldt University of Berlin
Yongmiao Hong (Co-Chair), Cornell University & Xiamen University,
Linlin Niu, Xiamen University
Inquiries should be directed to our local organizers Dr. Marcel Bluhm (Email: bluhm.wise.xmu@googlemail.com) for academic affairs and Ms. Emma Gao (Email: emmagao.wise@gmail.com, Tel: +86(0)592-2180855) for other information.
Xiamen University was founded in 1921 by Mr. Tan Kah-Kee, a well-known Oversea Chinese leader who lived in Singapore most of his lifetime. This is the first Chinese university founded by an oversea Chinese. Thanks to the contribution and influence of the late president, Professor Wang Yanan, who was also a prominent economist in China and the Chinese translator of Karl Marx's On Capital, Economics in Xiamen University has been among the very top programs in China, with currently 5 state-rated key fields -- Accounting, Finance, Political Economics, Public Economics, and Social Statistics.
The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics was established in 2005 and its main mission is to focus on high-quality graduate training, frontier research in modern economics, finance and statistics, and intensive international academic exchanges and cooperation.
