Department of Economics

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Arthur Sinko


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Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information:
Department  of  Economics
107 Gardner Hall, CB 3305
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3305
Phone: (919) 357-6590
Fax: (919) 919-966-4986 Email: sinko@email.unc.edu



Focus of Work
Empirical asset pricing
Portfolio choice
Financial econometrics

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (April 2007)

M.S. in Physics, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine,    July 1998


Forthcoming Papers:

MIDAS Regressions: Further Results and New Directions
(with Eric Ghysels and Rossen Valkanov)
. Forthcoming in Econometric Reviews

Comment of Hansen and Lunde (with Eric Ghysels)
. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 24(2) April 2006

Working Papers:

The Cross Section of Firm Stock Returns and Economic Announcements: A Bird's Eye View (with Eric Ghysels and Rossen Valkanov)

Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices for Risk Management Purpose

Volatility Prediction and Microstructure Noise (with Eric Ghysels) revise and resubmit, Journal of Econometrics

On Predictability of Market Microstructure Noise Variance

Power Variation, Volatility Prediction and Microstructure Noise (with Eric Ghysels)

Code:

MIDAS code

Presentations

Southern Economic Association, Charleston, South Carolina Nov. 18, 2006 Volatility Prediction and Microstructure Noise

Asset Pricing Seminar, UNC Oct. 12, 2006
On Predictability of Market Microstructure Noise Variance

Econometric Graduate Seminar, SAMSI May. 22, 2006
Volatility Prediction and Microstructure Noise

Volatility Prediction and Microstructure Noise. Conference on Realized Volatility Poster Session, Montreal, April 22-23, 2006

Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices for Risk Management Purpose. FSME Poster Session, SAMSI, September 18, 2005

Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices for Risk Management Purpose. Asset Pricing Seminar, UNC, October 24, 2004

Teaching Experience

Graduate Econometrics II (Econ 272)                  Spring 01

Graduate Econometrics (Time Series)                  Fall 02,03

Graduate Econometrics III (Econ 273)                 Fall 04














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