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2012
May 2012 - Attending the inaugural meetings of the Midwest Applied Time Series and Econometrics Group (MATSEG) in Minneapolis, MN to present my paper "Persistence of Cyclical Unemployment", which is work in progress.
Spring 2012: Teaching Econ 202 and Econ 736
Revising draft of "Volatility, Persistence and Nonlinearity of Simulated DSGE Real Exchange Rates", joint work with Ming Chien Lo (St. Cloud State University) and Olena Mykhaylova (U. of Richmond). Revise and resubmit at Journal of International Economics
2011
November 2011: Attending Southern Economics Association Conference, Washington DC, to present Real exchange rate paper with Ming Lo and Olena Mykhaylova
I am now the co-associate director of Undergraduate Research at UW-Whitewater
Fall 2011: Teaching Econ 202 and Econ 402
July - August 2011: Teaching Summer School Session 2: Econ 354 - Money and Banking; Econ 736 - Business Conditions Analysis
July 2011: Finished revised draft of "Volatility, Persistence and Nonlinearity of Simulated DSGE Real Exchange Rates", joint work with Ming Chien Lo (St. Cloud State University) and Olena Mykhaylova (U. of Richmond). Submitted paper for publication.
June 2011: Organizing conference: Georgetown Center for Economic Research 2011 Conference, Washington DC
Attending Society for Computational Economics 2011 Conference, San Francisco to present Temporal Biases paper (joint work with Ivan Paya)
May 2011: Paper with Bill Craighead "Temporal Aggregation and Purchasing Power Parity Persistence" accepted and forthcoming at Journal of International Money and Finance.
Finished a preliminary draft of "Temporal Biases of Random Walk Processes and Implications for Asset Prices", joint work with Ivan Paya
April 2011: Was awarded the College of Business and Economics' Leon P. Hermsen Teaching Award
March 2011: Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Conference, Washington DC
Finished a preliminary draft of "Persistence and Non-Linearity of Simulated DSGE Real Exchange Rates", joint work with Ming Chien Lo and Olena Mykhaylova
Spring 2011: Teaching Econ 302, Econ 413 and Econ 736
2010
November 2010:
Southern Economics Association Conference, Atlanta, GA:
Organizing session on "Monetary Policy, Financial Liberalization and Housing Prices"
Fall semester 2010: Teaching Econ 202 and Econ 402
July 2010: Promotion to Associate Professor
May 2010: Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, East Lansing, MI
March 2010:
Midwest Economics Association Conference, Evanston, IL
February 2010: Seminar at University of Richmond, VA
Spring semester 2010: Teaching Econ 202, Econ 302 and Econ 413
2009
December 2009 - January 2010: Traveling in Ireland and England.
November 9th 2009:
Keynote speaker in International Business Week at UW-Whitewater. Title of talk: Financial Stability in the Wake of a Global Economic Crisis.
September 2009:
Completed paper: "Temporal Aggregation and Purchasing Power Parity Persistence", joint with William Craighead.
Teaching:
Econ 202: Principles of Macroeconomics
Econ 402: Business Cycles
Econ 758: Advanced International Economics
Curriculum Vitae
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Yamin Ahmad is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater. He holds a Ph.D. and a Masters Degree (MA) in Economics from Georgetown University, a Masters Degree in Econometrics (MSc in Economics and Econometrics) from the University of Bristol, and a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His dissertation was in the area of Monetary Economics and is titled 'The Transmission mechanism of Monetary Policy'. His research interests lie in the area of monetary economics, international macroeconomics, threshold models, heterogenous agent models, and sticky price/wage models.
At UW-Whitewater, he currently teaches Business Cycles, Advanced International Economics and Business Conditions Analysis. He has also taught Principles of Macroeconomics, Money and Banking and Intermediate Macroeconomics. In addition to those classes, he has previously taught Macroeconomic Theory, Graduate Level Mathematical Economics, and Linear Algebra at Georgetown University.
University Address: Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
800 W. Main Street,
Whitewater, WI, 53190
Telephone: (262) 472 5576
Email: 
webpage: http://facstaff.uww.edu/ahmady/
Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A. 08/99 - 07/04
Ph.D. Economics, July 2004
Specialisation: Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics
Graduate Merit Fellowship awarded to promising graduate students in
Economics.
MA in Economics, May 2001
Specialisation: New Keynesian Macroeconomics, Computational
Economics, Econometrics
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom 08/98 - 08/99
MSc in Econometrics January 2000
Specialisation: Time Series Modeling, Advanced Micrometric Modeling,
Financial Markets
Graduated with Distinction (Summa Cum Laude)
London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K. 09/95 - 07/98
BSc in Economics July 1998
Specialisation: International Economics, Monetary Economics
Graduated with 2:1 Honours (Magna Cum Laude)
"Money Market Rates and Implied CCAPM Rates: Some International
Evidence",
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Sept. 2005, Vol 45, #4, pp 699-729
"The Effects of Small Sample Bias in Threshold Autoregressive (TAR) Models",
- Economics Letters, 101 (1), October 2008, pp 6 - 8
"Modeling the Time to an Initial Public Offering: When Does the Fruit Ripen?",
- Journal of Economics and Finance, forthcoming;
"Searching For Nonlinearities in Real Exchange Rates”, with Stuart Glosser
-Applied Financial Economics, forthcoming;
"International Observations of Monetary Policy Periods"
Presented at the Midwest Economics Association
Chicago, March 2007
Submitted to the ICFAI Journal of Monetary Economics
"Reconciling the Effects of Monetary Policy Actions on Consumption Within A Heterogeneous Agent Framework"
Presented at the Midwest Economics Association
Chicago, March 2006
"International Observations Of Monetary Policy Shocks Over The Last
Three Decades", Disseration Chapter May 2002
"The Transmission Mechanism Of Monetary Policy In New Neoclassical
Synthesis Models", Dissertation Chapter January 2003
Preliminary version presented at the Midwest Economics Association
Chicago, March 2008
"Temporal Aggregation and Purchasing Power Parity Persistence" (Working Title)
with William Craighead March 2009
"Temporal Biases in the Nominal Exchange Rate: Are Exchange Rates Too Stationary?" (Working Title)
with Ivan Paya
"Heterogeneity and Limited Participation: Implication For Interest Rate
Movements", (Working Title) May 2003
"Foreign Direct Investment versus Portfolio Investment: A Global Games
Approach", (Working Title)
with Pietro Cova and Rodrigo Harrison August 2003
Presented at the European Economic Association Conference
Madrid, Spain
, August 2004
Should Monetary Policy Target Asset Prices?”
(with Luis San Vicente Portes) September 2005
Title
"The Transmission Mechanism Of Monetary Policy"
Prof. Matthew B. Canzoneri,
Prof. Robert E. Cumby .
Prof. Behzad T. Diba
Presenter
Midwest Economics Association Conference March 2003 - present
Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics April 2008
Nonlinear Dynamical Methods and Time Series Analysis August 2006
Money, Macro & Finance Research Group 35th Annual Conference
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom September 2003
North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States June 2003
Discussant
Midwest Economics Association Conference March 2003 - present
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Journal of Economics and Business
American Economic Association
Econometric Society
Midwest Economics Association.
UW - Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, U.S.A. 2004 - present
Lecturer
Principles of Macroeconomics
Money and Banking
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Business Cycles
Business Conditions Analysis
Advanced International Economics
Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A. 8/99 - 2004
Lecturer
Mathematical Economics to incoming PhD students. 2000-2004
Macroeconomic Theory (Intermediate Macro) 2000-2004
Teaching Assistant
Principles of Microeconomics (Head Teaching Assistant)
Principles of Macroeconomics courses.
Graduate Macroeconomics
International Finance
Research Assistant
Research Assistant to Prof. William Jack Spring 2002
Gateway (formerly Gateway 2000), London, U.K. 1995-1998
Technical Advisor
Worked as part of a team to maintain computers.
Interacted with potential clients with regards to technical inquiries.
Graduate: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International
Finance, Mathematical Economics
Undergraduate: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International
Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Econometrics,
Mathematical Economics
Skills:
Econometric Software: Matlab, Gauss, Eviews;
Word Processors: Microsoft Office, Scientific Workplace;
Web Design & Graphics: Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash,
Adobe Photoshop.
Languages:
Conversational French and Bengali. Knowledgeable in German.
Mark Skidmore
Department of Agricultural Economics
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
Tel: (517) 353-9172
Email: mskidmor@msu.edu
Dissertation Supervisor:
Behzad T. Diba
Department of Economics
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20007
Tel: (202) 687-5862
Email: dibab@georgetown.edu
Thesis Advisors:
Matthew B. Canzoneri
Department of Economics
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20007
Tel: (202) 687-5911
Email: canzonem@georgetown.edu
Robert E. Cumby
Department of Economics
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20007
Tel: (202) 687-2990
Email: cumbyr@georgetown.edu
Courses
ECON 202 - Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 302 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
ECON 354 - Money and Banking
ECON 402 - Business Cycles
ECON 413 - Advanced Economic Analysis
ECON 736 - Business Conditions Analysis
ECON 758 - International Economics
RESEARCH
My primary field of interest lies in monetary economics, although I have research interests that also lie in the area of international macroeconomics, threshold models, heterogenous agent models, and sticky price/wage models. I have published the results of my research in outlets like the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Economics Letters, Applied Financial Economics and Journal of Economics and Finance. I am currently working on several research projects.
Broadly speaking, much of my current research involves the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, and in trying to identify channels by which monetary policy shocks impact the economy. I am also trying to find tractable means of incorporating heterogeneity into the existing representative agent framework.
The other broad strand of my research involves exchange rates and examining the extent to which they exhibit nonlinear dynamics. I am also interested in examining the role of expectations and moving away from the Rational Expectations paradigm by looking to see how the distribution of expectations may impact results from economic models.
Links to Other Resources
- UWW Economics Related Websites
- Job Sites For Economists
- Links To Some Economist's Homepages
- Programming Code
- Other Resources & Links
UWW Economics Related Sites
Departmental Workshops and Seminars
UW-Whitewater Economics Society
Job Sites For Economists
JOE (American Economic Association: Job Openings for Economists).
Inomics (Internet Site for Economists)
Jobs.ac.uk (Academic Job Posting Site in the UK)
Social Science Research Network
e-JOE (Electronic JOE)
Links To Some Economist's Homepages
Fabio Ghironi's Homepage For Macroeconomic Policy In Closed And Open Economies
Programming Code
Dynare Code For Chapter 3 of Dissertation (appearing shortly)
NNS Model features:-
- capital accumulation
- capital utilisation
- heterogeneous households
Data, Resources & Other Links
EconLit (JEL Classification Codes)
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
JSTOR (Journal Storage for Scholarly works)
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)