IFS’s Richard Blundell will be giving the keynote lecture at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Applied Econometrics (IAAE), held this year in Nicosia, Cyprus. The lecture is titled, ‘Nonlinear Persistence and Partial Insurance: Explorations in the Panel Data Dynamics of Income and Consumption’. This will be the sixth conference held by the IAAE,

The main aims of IAAE are to advance the education of the public in the subject of econometrics and its applications to a variety of fields in economics, in particular, but not exclusively, by advancing and supporting research in that field, and disseminating the results of such useful research to the public. The IAAE conference brings together leading researchers in the field and is a major forum where all aspects of econometrics (theory and practice) are discussed and debated.

Other speakers include:

Fabio Canova
Norwegian Business School

Bryan S. Graham
University of California, Berkeley

Ivana Komunjer
Georgetown University

Raffaella Giacomini
University College London

Christian Hansen
University of Chicago

Petra Todd
University of Pennsylvania