Chuan Goh

Department of Economics

University of Toronto

Max Gluskin House

150 St. George St.

Toronto, ON  M5S 3G7

Canada

 

(t)  +1 (416) 978-4964

(f)  +1 (416) 978-6713

 

 

 

 

goh@economics.utoronto.ca

http://www.chuangoh.org

 

 

 

 

Date of Birth:  20 July 1975 (Montreal, Canada)

 

Gender:  M

 

 

Degrees:

 

B.Sc.(Hons.) with high distinction (economics and statistics) 1998,  University of Toronto.

 

 

M.A. (statistics) 2001; Ph.D. (economics) 2004, University of California at Berkeley.

 

 

 

Experience:

 

University of Toronto.  Assistant Professor of Economics, since 2004.

 

 

Indiana University.  Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2008—2009.

 

 

 

Grants:

Connaught Fund, University of Toronto:

 

Start-up Award (“Smoothing Choices and Distributional Approximations for Semiparametric Econometric Estimators”), 2004-06. 

 

New Staff Matching Grant (“Smoothing Choices and Distributional Approximations for Semiparametric Econometric Estimators”), 2005-07.

 

 

Econometric Society: 

 

World Congress Bursary, 2005.

 

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: 

 

Conference Travel Grants, 2005 (two awards), 2006.

 

 

 

Research:

Smoothing Choices and Distributional Approximations for Econometric Inference.

Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 2004.

 

 

“Simple Edgeworth approximations for semiparametric averaged derivatives.” 

Economics Bulletin 3(50): 1-8, 2005.

 

 

“Nonstandard Quantile-Regression Inference,” with Keith Knight. 

Econometric Theory 25(5): 1415-1432, 2009.

 

 

“Bootstrap-based Bandwidth Selection for Semiparametric Generalized Regression Estimators.” 

First draft:  11 March 2002.  Last update:  30 September 2009.

Resubmitted for publication.

 

 

“Nonparametric Inferences on Conditional Quantile Processes.”

First draft:  31 July 2005.  Last update:  15 January 2007.

 

 

“Regression Quantile Spacings,” by Keith Knight and Chuan Goh.

First draft:  March 2006.

 

 

“Efficient Semiparametric Detection of Changes in Trend.”

First draft:  8 June 2008.  Last update:  20 May 2009.

Submitted for publication.

 

 

“Nonstandard Estimation of Inverse Conditional Density-Weighted Expectations.”

First draft:  30 November 2008.  Last update:  3 April 2009.

Submitted for publication.

 

 

“Semiparametric Inferences on Instrumental Quantile Processes,” with Juan Carlos Escanciano. 

First draft:  14 December 2009.

 

 

“Testing Conditional Independence:  A Quantile Regression Approach,” with Juan Carlos Escanciano and David Jacho-Chávez. 

Work in progress.

 

 

Presentations:

Fall 2004:  21st Conference of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group (Toronto), University of Toronto.

 

 

2005:  “The Frontier of Nonparametric Statistics” (American Statistical Association/Texas A&M University; College Station, Texas), University of Guelph, Cornell University, SUNY Albany, 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association (Hamilton), Joint Statistical Meetings (Minneapolis), 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society (London), 15th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (Carbondale, Illinois), 22nd Conference of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group (Vancouver), CIREQ Time Series Conference (Montreal).

 

 

2006:  Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations (Boston), Carleton University, 40th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association (Montreal), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Minneapolis), Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society (Beijing), “Econometrics in Rio” (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro), Joint Statistical Meetings (Seattle), European Meeting of the Econometric Society (Vienna), 16th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (Cincinnati), University of Toronto, 23rd Conference of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group (Niagara Falls), Queen’s University.

 

 

2007:  Université de Montréal, 41st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association (Halifax), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Durham, North Carolina), 4th Meeting of the Singapore Econometric Study Group, Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society (Taipei), Joint Statistical Meetings (Salt Lake City), “Advances in Semiparametric Methods and Applications” (CEMAPRE/Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal), 24th Conference of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group (Montreal), 17th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (St. Louis), The Ohio State University.

 

 

2008:  University of Guelph, Duke University, Symposium on Nonparametric Testing in Econometrics (Indiana University), Texas A&M University, Queen’s University, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Pittsburgh), “Markets and Models:  Policy Frontiers in the AWH Phillips Tradition” (Econometric Society/New Zealand Association of Economists; Wellington, New Zealand), Far Eastern and South Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore), Indiana University (Department of Economics), 18th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (Lawrence, Kansas), Indiana University (Department of Statistics).

 

 

2009:  The Pennsylvania State University, Indiana University (Department of Economics), cemmap/ESRC Econometric Study Group Workshop on Quantile Regression (London), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (Boston), International Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications (Hitotsubashi University/Osaka University/Kyoto University/ University of Tokyo/cemmap; Kyoto, Japan), Far Eastern and South Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Tokyo), European Meeting of the Econometric Society (Barcelona), 19th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (West Lafayette, Indiana).

 

 

2010:  University of Waterloo, Columbia University, Queen’s University.

 

 

Service:

Referee Reports:

 

Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d’économique, 2006.

Econometric Reviews, 2006.

Econometric Theory, 2008.

Economics Bulletin, 2008, 2009 (twice).

Empirical Economics, 2007.

Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008 (twice), 2009.

Journal of Econometrics, 2006, 2007 (twice), 2008 (three times), 2009 (twice).

Journal of Futures Markets, 2007 (twice).

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 2006.

National Science Foundation, 2009.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2009.

The Econometrics Journal, 2005.

 

Conference Organization:

 

Programme Committee, 41st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, 2007.

 

 

 

Ph.D. Orals:

Chun Liu (University of Toronto), June 2007.

Yu Ren (Queen’s University), June 2008.

Zhongfang He (University of Toronto), July 2009.

 

 

 

References:

Available upon request.