Faculty Member Zichang Wang Published Online in Journal of Economic TheoryRecently, a paper entitled “Informativeness orders over ambiguous experiments”, independently authored by Assistant Professor Zichang Wang from Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) and Department of Economics, School of Economics, Xiamen University (XMU), has been published online in Journal of Economic ...
On November 25, the 2024 Workshop on Recent Advances in Panel Data Analysis, Microeconometrics and Applied Microeconomics was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University (XMU). The workshop was co-organized by XMU Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics Research, the Centre for Forecasting Science at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy...
Mathematician and Educator Shing-Tung Yau Paid a Visit to XMU College of EconomicsOn the morning of November 18, Shing-Tung Yau, a famous mathematician and educator, visited the College of Economics of Xiamen University, and gave a lecture on “Thoughts on the training and promotion of outstanding talents” at room N402 which was packed with audience.Prof. Shing-Tung Yau gave an in-depth analys...
Dr. Michael Lokshin, Lead Economist with the Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank, delivered a lecture titled “Age Policy Index” in the Economics Building of Xiamen University on the afternoon of November 5. This was the 10th lecture of the Fubon Economics and Finance Lecture Series initiated by XMU College of Economics.
Conference on Frontiers in Sustainable Development Studies Successfully HeldOn November 2-3, the Conference on Frontiers in Sustainable Development Studies, jointly initiated by the Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics, Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), and School of Economics at Xiamen University, was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University....
Prof. Howell Tong Visited XMU College of Economics and Gave a Nanqiang LectureOn the afternoon of October 23, Professor Howell Tong, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University and Emeritus Professor in Statistics of the London School of Economics and Political Science, visited XMU College of Economics and gave a Nanqiang lecture titled “Threshold models in time series analysis: 40...
2024 Symposium on Recent Developments in Time Series Econometrics and Applied Macroeconomics Successfully HeldOn October 21, the 2024 Symposium on Recent Developments in Time Series Econometrics and Applied Macroeconomics was held in the Economics Building of Xiamen University. Prof. Thomas Sargent, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, was specially invited to give a keynote speech enti...
Recently, the paper “A Latent Space Model for Weighted Keyword Co-occurrence Networks with Applications in Knowledge Discovery in Statistics” has been published online in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. The paper is a collaborative work of five authors: Yan Zhang, a PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, XMU School of Economics, Prof. Kuangnan Fang, Y...
Recently, a paper titled “Forecasting Inflation Using Economic Narratives” has been published in the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, a leading international journal of statistics and econometrics. The paper is jointly authored by Prof. Fuwei Jiang from the School of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University (XMU), Prof. Yongmiao Hong from...
Prof. Shuping Shi, Eminent Alumna of WISE, Visited College of Economics and Provided Guidance on Academic CareerOn the afternoon of September 20, Prof. Shuping Shi, a distinguished alumna of the Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE) and Professor from the Department of Economics, Macquarie University, Australia, gave an enlightening talk on the topic of “Navigating Through an Ac...
