On November 25, the 2024 Workshop on Recent Advances in Panel Data Analysis, Microeconometrics and Applied Microeconomics was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University (XMU). The workshop was co-organized by XMU Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics Research, the Centre for Forecasting Science at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy...
In recent days, Associate Professor Lina Meng and Professor Yinggang Zhou from XMU College of Economics, in collaboration with Associate Professor Pengfei Liu from the University of Rhode Island and Associate Professor Yingdan Mei from Renmin University of China, have published a paper entitled “Blaming the wind? The impact of wind turbine on bird biodiversity” in the Journal of Development E...
Recently, the paper “Multivariate Spatiotemporal Models with Low Rank Coefficient Matrix” was accepted by and published online in the Journal of Econometrics, a top international journal in economics and statistics. The paper is authored by Dan Pu, a PhD graduate of the class of 2023 from the Department of Statistics and Data Science of XMU School of Economics, in collaboration with her XMU s...
Mathematician and Educator Shing-Tung Yau Paid a Visit to XMU College of EconomicsOn the morning of November 18, Shing-Tung Yau, a famous mathematician and educator, visited the College of Economics of Xiamen University, and gave a lecture on “Thoughts on the training and promotion of outstanding talents” at room N402 which was packed with audience.Prof. Shing-Tung Yau gave an in-depth analys...
The first SMU-XMU Econometrics Conference (2024), a joint workshop on econometrics between Singapore Management University (SMU) and Xiamen University (XMU), was held on November 15-16 at SMU. A 12-member group of faculty from XMU College of Economics participated in this conference and had an exchange with their counterparts from SMU School of Economics. Prof. Yongmiao Hong from the University...
On November 8, the 13th National Conference on Probability and Statistics kicked off in Xiamen. Focusing on “Frontier Development of Probability and Statistics for the Era of Artificial Intelligence”, the conference attracted nearly 800 experts and scholars in the field of probability and statistics from universities and research institutes at home and abroad. Participants made wonderful pres...
Dr. Michael Lokshin, Lead Economist with the Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank, delivered a lecture titled “Age Policy Index” in the Economics Building of Xiamen University on the afternoon of November 5. This was the 10th lecture of the Fubon Economics and Finance Lecture Series initiated by XMU College of Economics.
Conference on Frontiers in Sustainable Development Studies Successfully HeldOn November 2-3, the Conference on Frontiers in Sustainable Development Studies, jointly initiated by the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), and School of Economics at Xiamen University, was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University....
Prof. Howell Tong Visited XMU College of Economics and Gave a Nanqiang LectureOn the afternoon of October 23, Professor Howell Tong, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University and Emeritus Professor in Statistics of the London School of Economics and Political Science, visited XMU College of Economics and gave a Nanqiang lecture titled “Threshold models in time series analysis: 40...
2024 Symposium on Recent Developments in Time Series Econometrics and Applied Macroeconomics Successfully HeldOn October 21, the 2024 Symposium on Recent Developments in Time Series Econometrics and Applied Macroeconomics was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University. Prof. Thomas Sargent, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, was specially invited to give a keynote speech enti...
