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Virtual Time Series Seminar, 2025 Autumn Edition will start soon! Please check here:
New paper on Measuring Systemic Growth at Risk:
In brief, this paper introduces new tools to assess the distribution of growth-at-risk across countries, quantify the net benefits of economic integration, and identify the factors that explain why some countries gain more than others—particularly in regional integration efforts. For full details, please read the paper here: Paper
LAMBDA's Roundtable: "AI Confidence: The Leader’s Role in Empowering Teams to Solve Business Challenges."
June 13th, 2025
I am pleased to announce that LAMBDA will be hosting its third Roundtable on June 13. I am delighted to share a preliminary list of confirmed speakers:
Michael McQueen, Senior Manager, AI Strategy at HSBC UK
Ajay Sharma, Head HR - International Delivery ( APAC and Europe)
Chris Gray, Director, Government Practice at Actica Consulting
Sona Loretsyan, CEO and Co-founder, A&SL Consulting
Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please register here:
Many thanks. I look forward to seeing many of you soon.
ESSEC, Rabat Morocco, APRIL 10-12, 2025
Workshop program is here: Workshop: Recent advances in statistical Robustness - Program
Virtual Workshop for Junior Researchers in Time Series
April 10, 2025
Program here: Virtual Time Series Seminar - Workshop
I am pleased to announce that on the 10th of April 2025, the Virtual Time Series Seminar Series (VTSS) will host the second virtual workshop for junior researchers.
For this year, the presentation is open to current PhD students and those within five years of their PhD defense. The aim of the event is to offer junior researchers an opportunity to present their work and receive feedback on their research. The workshop is open to both presenters and external participants and will take place on at the same Zoom meeting as the VTSS seminar.
Important dates and the link to submission can be found below. The selection committee and the chairs of sessions will be composed of the organizers of VTSS. For any question, please email.
Deadline: 27/02/2025
Notification: 13/3/2025
Final Program: 27/03/2025
Hosted by the Management School’s Economics Group, the ‘Identification and Misspecification Problems in Econometrics’ workshop is an excellent opportunity for researchers, PhD students and practitioners in the field of econometrics to learn recent theoretical and empirical developments in this area.
Submit your paper: Submit your full paper before 28 February 2025 using the link below:
More information here:
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2024 Africa Training Workshop in Econometrics (AFTW2-2024): Causal Machine Learning and Modelling with Big Data in Economics
December 3-6, 2024, Fully Remote
Over the past decade, the use of unstructured data has been growing steadily in economics and related disciplines. This training workshop on "Causal Machine Learning and Modeling with Big Data in Economics" offers a comprehensive introduction to empirical methods used to extract economically meaningful information from such data, with a particular focus on natural language. Starting with methods based on term counts, the course progresses to neural language models that represent words as vectors for word prediction tasks, laying the groundwork for modern large language models.
Additionally, the course delves into causal machine learning using the statistical software "R." Participants will learn how to assess the causal effect of interventions or treatments on outcomes, ensuring comparability between treated and untreated groups through data-driven models. The course covers key algorithms like double lasso regression, causal random forests, double machine learning, and optimal policy trees, enabling attendees to detect effect heterogeneity and target optimal subgroups. By the end, participants will gain a solid understanding of the assumptions, intuition, and practical applications of machine learning for causal analysis using real-world datasets.
Speakers: Stephen Hansen (University College London) and Martin Huber (University of Fribourg).
Deadline for application: October 18, 2024, Admission decision: October 30, 2024, Registration deadline: November 20, 2024. Applications shall be submitted through Head Hunter at: https://editorialexpress.com/apply/AFTW2_2024
Organizers: Abderrahim Taamouti and Prosper Dovonon
Keynote Speaker at the Annual Fintech and AI in Finance Conference
I am delighted to deliver a keynote address at the 2024 FinTech and AI in Finance Conference on October 14, 2024.
Research Award from University of Liverpool Management School
July 17th, 2024
I am deeply honored and sincerely grateful for this recognition from my school!
LAMBDA's Roundtable: "AI: Benefits and Challenges for Business."
June 7th, 2024
We just had the roundtable! I am grateful to all the speakers and attendees for their insightful contributions and participation, making this event a great success.
Stories - Management School - University of Liverpool
I am pleased to announce that Liverpool Advanced Methods for Big Data Analytics (LAMBDA) is organizing a Roundtable scheduled for June 7th. The theme for this second edition is "AI: Benefits and Challenges for Business." We have confirmed the following speakers:
Pauline Norstrom, Founder and CEO, Anekanta® Consulting and Anekanta® AI
Radhika Jakkula, Big Data & Analytics Prototyping Architect at Amazon
Michael O'Keefe, Data Scientist at Raytheon
Olivia Bridgewater-Smith, Data Scientist at Heimdal Satellite Technologies
Edgar Everardo Garcia Aguilar, Data Scientist at AXA
Please register online to guarantee a place at the event. You can do it using the following link:
Virtual Workshop for Junior Researchers in Time Series
We now have the program for the Virtual Workshop for Junior Researchers in Time Series on the 18 of April ready to circulate. It can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/view/vtss/workshop
Zoom link: Please register here. The same registration gives access to the workshop and all seminars.
You can follow the workshop and seminars updates on Twitter.
2024 LAMBDA’s Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Data Analysis Workshop, 22nd of April, Liverpool, UK
I am pleased to inform you that the LAMBDA centre is organizing a quantitative workshop on Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Data Analysis scheduled for the 22nd of April. We have a great list of speakers:
Professor Roberto Renò, ESSEC Business School
Professor Anders Kock, University of Oxford
Professor Valentina Corradi, University of Surrey
Professor Jeroen Rombouts, ESSEC Business School
The program can be found here: here
For the registration, please click here
Virtual Time Series Seminar, 2024 Winter-Spring Edition started! Please check here:
Virtual Time Series Seminar (google.com)
LAMBDA Workshop on Data Science, AI, and Social Sciences
November 30, 2023
Liverpool Advanced Methods for Big Data Analytics (LAMBDA) is organizing a workshop on Data Science, AI, and Social Sciences.
Time: 11h45AM to 5pm, November 30, 2023
For registration and place, visit:
Speakers:
Christophe Mues, Professor of Data Science and Info Systems, Southampton University
Talk’s title: Deep learning methods in credit scoring: empirical insights into when and how they can add value
Simon Rudkin, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Social Statistics, University of Manchester
Talk’s title: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Messages in Social Science Data
Slava Jankin, Chair in Data Science and Government and Director of the Centre for the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government (CAIG) at the University of Birmingham
Talk’s title: Uncovering Causal Mechanisms in Political Texts: How Natural Language Processing Can Aid Social Science Research
Francisco Rowe, Professor in Population Data Science, University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences
Talk’s title: Unleashing the potential of digital footprint data to understand human mobility: Opportunities, challenges and practice
Fellow of Econometric Society
October 9, 2023
Extremely privileged and honored to have been elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society:
Stories - Management School - University of Liverpool
The Econometric Society Africa Training Workshop will be held on December 13-15, 2023 (fully remote).
APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: Before Oct. 15th!
For this second edition, the focus is on Computational Macroeconomics. Come and learn how to solve dynamic equilibrium models and improve your coding skills with two excellent instructors, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Pablo Winant!
Financial support is available for Africa-based PHD students and scholars.
More info here: https://lnkd.in/dH3kFZss
Virtual Time Series Seminar series (VTSS):
We re-start again this week (week of September 12, 2023). Please register and check for the list of speakers here:
https://sites.google.com/view/vtss/home
LAMBDA Research Cluster: Big Data Analytics Roundtable
Date: 26 June 2023
Time: 3-5pm
Place: University of Liverpool Management School - Seminar Room 5 (first floor)
Keynote speakers:
Janet Bastiman, Chief Data Scientist, Chair of the RSS Data Science and AI Section, Napier AI
Matthew Whittle, Data Science Manager at Meta
Geoff Wainwright, Chief Operating Officer, Impact Data Metrics Ltd
Gary Leeming, Director, LCR Civic Data Cooperative.
Abderrahim Taamouti, Moderator
After the preliminary remarks and discussion, we will open the floor to questions from the audience.
Register your place here
The 10th Days of Econometrics for Finance jointly organized with The 12th Workshop on High Dimensional Data Analysis (HDDA-XII)
April 26-28th, 2023, Mohammed V University in Rabat (UM5R) and ESSEC Africa, Morocco
Please see the program here
The registration for this workshop is free. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Organizers:
Ejaz Ahmed, Brock University, Canada
Mohamed Amezziane, Central Michigan University, USA
Taoufik Bouezmarni, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Ahmed El Ghini, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco
Christian Francq, ENSAE and Université de Lille, France
Mohamed Ndaoud, ESSEC Business School, France
Jeroen Rombouts, ESSEC Business School, France
Abderrahim Taamouti, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
Virtual Workshop for Junior Researchers in Time Series on 20 April 2023:
Please see the program here
The videos of all presentations can be found here
The registration for this workshop is free and access to it can be obtained by registering to the VTSS seminar here and joining the meeting at the listed time.
Organizers:
Majid Al-Sadoon, Durham University
Adriana Cornea-Madeira, ISEG, Lisbon
Dimitris Korobilis, Glasgow University
Alessandra Luati, Imperial College London and University of Bologna
Geert Mesters, Pompeu Fabra University
Michele Piffer, King's College London
Abderrahim Taamouti, University of Liverpool Management School
Economics Workshop 2023
17th and 18th of April, 2023, University of Liverpool Management School
Please see the program here
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), the Economics group is organising a two-day Economics conference on Monday 17 - Tuesday 18 April at the ULMS Atrium.
Launching a Virtual Time Series Seminar series (VTSS):
With group of friends and colleagues, we are launching a new initiative: a Virtual Time Series Seminar series (VTSS). The new series starts on September 15 and takes place regularly on Thursday at 16:00 UK time. All info and registration are available at:
https://sites.google.com/view/vtss/home
We are all enjoying going back to in-person events. But online seminars can still help the community after the Covid era, since they keep the two sides of the Atlantic closer to each other.
Post-doc opportunity at Liverpool University Management School
Please check here:
Job Specification (corehr.com)
MMF Sponsored Workshop 2022
Econometric and Big Data Analyses of Global Economy, Financial Markets and Economic Policies
28-29 June, 2022
Liverpool University Management School
Day 1: Tuesday, 28 June
09:00 – 09:25 Coffee Reception
09:25 – 09:30 Welcome Address
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote 1
Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge)
TBC
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:45 Invited Session 1 (International Trade)
Jun Du (Aston Business School)
TCA, Non-tariff Measures and UK Trade
Yuan Tian (University of Nottingham)
Trade Disruptions along the Global Supply Chain
Dennis Novy (University of Warwick)
Urban-Biased Structural Change
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:15 Keynote 2
Glenn Magerman (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB, CEPR)
The Impact of Covid Rescue Policies on Productivity Growth and Reallocation
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Invited Session 2 (Productivity and Change)
Gert Bijnens (National Bank of Belgium)
Emissions and Carbon Pricing: Do Firms Strive or Shrink?
Joep Konings (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business, ULMS, CEPR)
FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions
Balazs Murakozy (University of Liverpool)
Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets
18:30 – 20:30 Conference Dinner (by Invitation)
Day 2: Wednesday, 29 June
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote 3
Sudipto Karmakar (Bank of England)
(Un-)Intended Consequences of Government Support Measures During Covid-19
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:45 Invited Session 3 (Economic Policies)
Jiaqi Li (Bank of Canada)
Predicting the Demand for Central Bank Digital Currency: A Structural Analysis with Survey Data
Tim Jackson (University of Liverpool)
Optimal Central Bank Balance Sheets
Mingli Chen (University of Warwick)
Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Monetary Model
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:15 Keynote 4
Caio Almeida (Princeton University)
Can a Machine Correct Option Pricing Models
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Invited Session 4 (Financial Markets and Risks)
Marco Bardoscia (Bank of England)
TBC
Shixuan Wang (University of Reading)
TBC
Michael Ellington (University of Liverpool)
Persistence in Economic Networks
Sponsors:
· Money Macro & Finance Society
· The Economics Group, ULMS
· Econometrics and Big Data Research Cluster, ULMS
Organizers:
· Ruijun Bu
· Oliver de Groot
· Lu Han
· Tim Jackson
· Joep Konings
· Balazs Murakozy
· Abderrahim Taamouti
Registration Details:
· Participation to the conference including coffee and lunches are free of charge. Please email Ruijun Bu at ruijunbu@liv.ac.uk to register your interest.
· MMF society members seeking financial support from the society, please indicate this in your email and also contact the society for more details.
Conference Venues:
· Welcome address and all presentations (ULMS SR6 at the University of Liverpool)
· Coffee reception and breaks (ULMS SR6 Breakout Area)
· Lunches and Dinners (TBC)
N.B. The programme and venues are provisional and may be subject to minor amendments. Please contact Ruijun Bu at ruijunbu@liv.ac.uk for queries.
QRFE - Econometrics and Big Data Cluster (University of Liverpool Management School) Workshop on Econometrics
June 6th, 2022
Venue: 405 MHL (Durham Business School)
To attend the workshop online, please register here
Preliminary program
09:00-09:45 Liangjun Su ( School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University)
Estimation of Heterogeneous Panel Data Models with an Application to Program Evaluation
09:45-10:30 Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California)
Trimmed Mean Group Estimator for Ultra Short T Panels with Correlated Random Coefficients
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:45 Bas Werker (Tilburg University)
Ancillarity and Semiparametric Efficiency
11:45-12:30 Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill University)
Approximation bounds for conditional expectations and nonparametric regressions:
theory and inference
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:15 Barbara Rossi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & CREI)
TBA
14:15-15:00 Fabio Canova (Norwegian Business School)
Using Structural and Nonstructural Shocks in the Estimation of DSGE Models
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:15 Lynda Khalaf (Carlton University)
Identification-robust beta pricing, spanning, mimicking portfolios, and the benchmark neutrality of catastrophe bonds
16:15-18:00 Walk to Durham Cathedral
18:00-19:30 Dinner
Organizers:
Abderrahim Taamouti (Econometrics and Big Data Cluster at University of Liverpool Management School)
Majid Al Sadoon (QRFE at Durham University Business School)
Bo Zhou (Durham University Business School)
Please check the website of Econometrics and Big Data Cluster at University of Liverpool Management School and get in touch if you are interested in the research agenda/activities of the cluster:
Econometrics and Big Data - Management School - University of Liverpool
Very useful information: Econometric Society-Africa Region offers every year a limited number of sponsored Econometric Society membership to students and young scholars from low income regions who do not have financial support. To apply see here:
Econometric Society Membership | Africa Econ. Society (africaeconometricsociety.com)
See below some PhD scholarships at University of Liverpool Management School [Deadline 25 of March 2022]. Please get in touch if you are interested:
ULMS Economics PhD Funding Call: October 2022 entry at University of Liverpool (jobs.ac.uk)
QRFE seminars (Durham Business School) that I organized since 2014:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/business/research/economics/qrfe/seminars/
Forthcoming QRFE seminars: Autumn 2021/2022
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 3:00pm
Timothy Christensen (New York University)
Title: Robust Forecasting
Zoom link (To register):durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fbe_9y8qQhG6EdQ_-OKoYA
Thursday, October 21, 2021, 3:00pm
Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford University)
Title: Testing the effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy in Japan and the United States
Zoom link (To register):durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fbe_9y8qQhG6EdQ_-OKoYA
Thursday, 28 of October, 2021, 3:00pm
Laura Coroneo (York University)
Title: Testing the predictive accuracy of COVID-19 forecasts
Zoom link (To register): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_grVi9mZXS2KJIsQJ-zqiOg
Thursday, 4 of November 2021, 3:00pm
Stefano Giglio (Yale School of Management)
Title: A Quantity-Based Approach to Constructing Climate Risk Hedge Portfolios
Zoom link (To register): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5yYNcNCIRj-iKU-oRGPiGw
Thursday, 11 November, , 2021, 3:00pm
Rasmus Tangsgaard Varneskov (Copenhagen Business School)
Title: Consistent Local Spectrum (LCM) Inference for Predictive Return Regressions
Zoom link (To register): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wGU9jWV2QHaPcJJCtCWH4w
Thursday, 18 of November 2021, 2021, 3:00pm
Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)
Title: Estimating Individual Responses when Tomorrow Matters
Zoom link (To register): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vLZ2Xo_dTfe0lxnIiOtLgg
Thursday, November 25, , 2021, 3:00pm
Jia Li (School of Economics, Singapore Management University)
Title: Reading the Candlesticks: An OK Estimator for Volatility
Zoom link (To register): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_63vwwbdPT06FE_GF9MOPGQ
Thursday, 2nd of December, 2021, 3:00pm
David Preinerstorfer (University of St. Gallen)
Title: Consistency of p-norm based tests in high dimensions: characterization, monotonicity, domination
Zoom link (To register): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EIc2SxoNR5WQMnBDXmKgIw
Past QRFE seminars/Workshops
Virtual QRFE Workshop on Financial Econometrics, June 14-15, 2021
Venue: Zoom
To attend the workshop and for the link to zoom, please register here:
Program
June 14, 2021
16:25 - 16:30PM Opening remarks
16:30 - 17:15PM Torben Andersen (Kellogg School of Management)
On Measurement Errors and Inference for Option-Based Volatility Indices
17:15 - 17:20PM Break
17:20 - 18:05PM Dacheng Xiu (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)
Test Assets and Weak Factors
18:05 - 18:10PM Break
18:10 - 18:55PM Giuseppe Cavaliere (University of Bologna and University of Exeter Business School)
Bootstrap Inference for Hawkes and General Point Processes
18:55 - 19:00PM Closing remarks
June 15, 2021
16:25 - 16:30PM Opening remarks
16:30 - 17:15PM Jesus Gonzalo (University Carlos III de Madrid)
Long-Term Climate Forecasts
17:15 - 17:20PM Break
17:20 - 18:05PM Christiane Baumeister (University of Notre Dame)
Advances in Structural Vector Autoregressions with Imperfect Identifying Information
18:05 - 18:10PM Break
18:10 - 18:55PM Domenico Giannone (Senior Principal Economist at Amazon.com)
Nowcasting with Large Bayesian Vector Autoregressions
18:55 - 19:00PM Closing remarks
Organizers: Bo Zhou, Majid Al-Sadoon, Abderrahim Taamouti
End of Workshop
QRFE seminars for 20/21 Academic Year
Thursday, 8 October, 3:00pm
Luca Fanelli (University of Bologne)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 15 October, 3:00pm
Bertille Antoine (Simon Fraser University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 22 October, 3:00pm
Liang Chen (HSBC Business School, Peking University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 29 October, 3:00pm
Ekaterina Smetanina (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 5 November, 3:00pm
Canceled: Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna (Vanderbilt University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 12 November, 3:00pm
Kirill Evdokimov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 19 November, 3:00pm
Yuan Liao (Rutgers University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 26 November, 3:00pm
Anisha Ghosh (McGill University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 3 December, 3:00pm
Canceled: Katerina Petrova (University Pompeu Fabra)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 10 December, 3:00pm
Nicola Fusari (Johns Hopkins University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 17 December, 3:00pm
Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 14 January, 3:00pm UK time
Xiye Yang (Rutgers University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 28 January, 3:00pm UK time
Katerina Petrova (University Pompeu Fabra)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 4 Feburary, 3:00pm UK time
Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna (Vanderbilt University)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 11 Feburary, 3:00pm UK time
Bruno Feunou (Bank of Canada)
To attend this seminar, please register here:
Thursday, 18 Feburary, 3:00pm UK time
Tetsuya Kaji (University of Chicago)
To attend this seminar, please register here
Thursday, 25 Feburary, 3:00pm UK time
Martin Weidner (Oxford University)
To attend this seminar, please register here
Thursday, 4th of March, 3:00pm UK time
Yinchu Zhu (Brandeis University)
To attend this seminar, please register here
Thursday, 11 of March, 3:00pm UK time
Gustavo Schwenkler (Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business)
To attend this seminar, please register here
Thursday, 18 of March, 3:00pm UK time
Amin Shams (Ohio State University )
To attend this seminar, please register here
Thursday, 25 of March, 3:00pm UK time
Nazarii Salish (University Carlos III de Madrid)
To attend this seminar, please register here
Thursday, 20 of May, 3:00pm UK time
Daniel Kim (Norwegian Business School)
To attend this seminar, please register here
2019 African Econometric Society Meeting (2019 AESM), Rabat, July 11-13, 2019:
https://www.econometricsociety.org/meetings/schedule/2019/07/11/2019-africa-meeting
Reaction of Prof. John Taylor to his participation in the 2019 African Econometric Society Meeting:
Africa Meeting of Econometricians: History, Revival and Ways Forward | Economics One
Some videos of online workshops and seminars organised by the QRFE center in response to Covid-19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc3RSIz1hYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90zZCrqgL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToCBGohUpvE