Brendan K. Beare
Econometrics research at USyd
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Recent and upcoming conference and seminar presentations
February 16, 2023: Duke University.
February 28, 2023: Georgetown University.
March 10, 2023: University of Connecticut.
March 24, 2023: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
April 3, 2023: Emory University.
April 12 and 17, 2023: Yale University.
May 31, 2023: University of California Los Angeles.
June 29, 2023: Symposium for High Dimensional Econometrics and Machine Learning. Tsinghua University.
July 1, 2023: Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society. Tsinghua University.
July 18, 2023: Academia Sinica.
August 8, 2023: Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society. University of New South Wales.
October 27, 2023: University of Sydney (statistics).
November 16-17, 2023: Australia New Zealand Econometric Study Group Meeting. University of Adelaide.
Publications
Optimal measure preserving derivatives revisited (2023). Mathematical Finance, 33 (2), 370-388.
Tail behavior of stopped Lévy processes with Markov modulation (2022). Econometric Theory, 38 (5), 986-1013. With Won-Ki Seo and Alexis Akira Toda.
Determination of Pareto exponents in economic models driven by Markov multiplicative processes (2022). Econometrica, 90 (4), 1811-1833. With Alexis Akira Toda.
Distributional replication (2021). Entropy, 23 (8), 1063.
Least favorability of the uniform distribution for tests of the concavity of a distribution function (2021). Stat, 10 (1), e376.
Improved nonparametric bootstrap tests of Lorenz dominance (2021). Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 39 (1), 189-199. With Zhenting Sun. (MATLAB code.)
Randomization tests of copula symmetry (2020). Econometric Theory, 36 (6), 1025-1063. With Juwon Seo. (MATLAB code.)
On the emergence of a power law in the distribution of COVID-19 cases (2020). Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 412, 132649. With Alexis Akira Toda. (MATLAB code.)
Representation of I(1) and I(2) autoregressive Hilbertian processes (2020). Econometric Theory, 36 (5), 773-802. With Won-Ki Seo.
An improved bootstrap test of density ratio ordering (2019). Econometrics and Statistics, 10, 9-26. With Xiaoxia Shi. (MATLAB code.)
Cointegrated linear processes in Bayes Hilbert space (2019). Statistics and Probability Letters, 147, 90-95. With Won-Ki Seo.
Unit root testing with unstable volatility (2018). Journal of Time Series Analysis, 39 (6), 816-835.
Option augmented density forecasts of market returns with monotone pricing kernel (2018). Quantitative Finance, 18 (4), 623-635. With Asad Dossani.
Book review: "Convolution Copula Econometrics" (2017). Journal of Economic Literature, 55 (4), 1615-1619.
Weak convergence of the least concave majorant of estimators for a concave distribution function (2017). Electronic Journal of Statistics, 11 (2), 3841-3870. With Zheng Fang.
Cointegrated linear processes in Hilbert space (2017). Journal of Time Series Analysis, 38 (6), 1010-1027. With Juwon Seo and Won-Ki Seo.
The Chang-Kim-Park model of cointegrated density-valued time series cannot accommodate a stochastic trend (2017). Econ Journal Watch, 14 (2), 133-137.
An empirical test of pricing kernel monotonicity (2016). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 31 (2), 338-356. With Lawrence Schmidt.
Nonparametric tests of density ratio ordering (2015). Econometric Theory, 31 (3), 471-492. With Jong-Myun Moon.
Vine copula specifications for stationary multivariate Markov chains (2015). Journal of Time Series Analysis, 36 (2), 228-246. With Juwon Seo. (Corrigendum.)
Stable limit theory for the variance targeting estimator (2014). Advances in Econometrics, 33, 639-672. With Igor Vaynman.
Time irreversible copula-based Markov models (2014). Econometric Theory, 30 (5), 923-960. With Juwon Seo.
A coarsening of the strong mixing condition (2014). Communications on Stochastic Analysis, 8 (3), 317-329.
Archimedean copulas and temporal dependence (2012). Econometric Theory, 28 (6), 1165-1185.
Measure preserving derivatives and the pricing kernel puzzle (2011). Journal of Mathematical Economics, 47 (6), 689-697.
Copulas and temporal dependence (2010). Econometrica, 78 (1), 395-410.
A generalization of Hoeffding's lemma, and a new class of covariance inequalities (2009). Statistics and Probability Letters, 79 (5), 637-642.
The Soviet economic decline revisited (2008). Econ Journal Watch, 5 (2), 135-144.
Unpublished manuscripts
Modified Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests of stochastic dominance. With Jackson Clarke.
Stochastic arbitrage with market index options. With Juwon Seo.
The resolution and representation of time series in Banach space. With Amie Albrecht, Konstantin Avrachenkov, John Boland, Massimo Franchi and Phil Howlett.
Teaching
Semester 1, 2023 (Yale). ECON553: Time Series Econometrics. 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room A102.
Semester 2, 2023 (USyd). ECMT2160: Econometric Analysis. John Wooley Lecture Theater N395.
Advice on mathematics coursework for econometrics students
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