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| 451 | Wed, 8/6/08, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM | CC-708 | 
| Portfolio Analysis, Exchange Rates, Microstructure, and GARCH Models - Contributed - Papers | ||
| Business and Economics Statistics Section | ||
| Chair(s): Christopher H. Morrell, Loyola College in Maryland | ||
| 2:05 PM | Robust Portfolio Selection —  Michael  Schyns, University of Liege | |
| 2:20 PM | Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets —  Motohiro  Yogo, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 2:35 PM | Applications of Statistics in Finance Using the Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) —  Nicolas  Christou, University of California, Los Angeles; Ivo D. Dinov, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 2:50 PM | Market Depth in Agricultural Futures Markets —  Julieta  Frank, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Philip  Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 3:05 PM | The Information Content of Trades: A Class of Market Microstructure Models —  Anna  Valeva, Western Illinois University | |
| 3:20 PM | The 'Melting Pot': A Success Story? —  Edna  Schechtman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Shlomo  Yitzhaki, Central Bureau of Statistics/Hebrew University | |
| 3:35 PM | Floor Discussion | |
| JSM 2008
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