2012 fall 2 hours meeting

1st October 24 Research Xu Behavioral economics
2nd 31 Research Bala Oil-price volatility in Nigeria
Research Deng CO2 emissions in Beijing
3rd November 7 Research Xu Economic growth in China
Vuving (2012) The future of China's Rise: How China's economic growth will shift the Sino-U.S. balance of Power, 2010-2040, Asian Politics & Policy.
Woo and Zhang (2010) Time for China to move from macro-stability to macro-sustainability: Making macro-stimulus work and maintaining its effect, Journal of the Asian Pacific Economy.
Huang (2010) Dissecting the China puzzle: Asymmetric liberalizaton and cost distortion, Asian Economic Policy Review.
Statistics Bala Set theory
4th 14 Research Bala External reserves, oil-price and revenue in Nigeria
Statistics Kubo The probability set function, conditional probability and independence
5th 21 Research Xu Xu (2011) The Funfamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development, Journal of Economic Literature
Statistics Deng Random variables, discrete random variables
6th December 5 Research Bala Hand (2008) Statistics: A very short introduction, Oxford
7th 12 Research Xu Xu (2011) The Funfamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development, Journal of Economic Literature
Statistics Bala Continuous random variables
8th 19 Research Bala A-FIGARCH modelling for financial stock price data
Statistics Deng Continuous random variables, expectation of a random variable, some special expectations
9th January 9 Research Xu Xu (2011) The Funfamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development, Journal of Economic Literature
Statistics Bala Important inequalities, distributions of two random variables
10th 16 Research Bala Modelling the stock market volatility
Research Deng CO2 emissions in Japan
11th 23 Research Kubo Determinants of farming and off-farming in Malawi
12th February 6 Research Xu China inflation
Statistics Bala Distribution of two random variables, expectation
13th February 13 Research Bala Japan's macroeconomic time series
Statistics Deng Transformation: bivariate random variables, conditional distributions and expectations
14th March 6 Research Deng Stock market volatility, Journal paper
Statistics Bala Correlation coefficient, independent random variables
15th March 27 Research Bala Bollerslev and Mikkelsen (1996) Journal of Econometrics, 73, pp.151-184.
Statistics Deng Extension to several random variables,transformations: random vectors