
Michael Ashby
Williams Downing Fellow and College Teaching Officer in Economics, Downing College;
College Teaching Officer in Economics, St Edmund’s College;
College Teaching Officer in Economics, Hughes Hall
Research Interests
Empirical Finance (especially Empirical Asset Pricing), Portfolio Construction
Professor M. Hashem Pesaran
Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics and Director of Centre for Applied Financial Economics at University of Southern California.
Director, USC Dornsife Center for Applied Financial Economics.
Research Interests
Econometric Analysis of Heterogeneous Panels. Panel/Global Vector Autoregressive Models(PVAR/GVAR). Long-run Structural Macroeconometrics
Research Grants
- Empirical Demand and Welfare Analysis (EDWEL) (ECH2020 EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC)) - Bhattacharya, D.
- Globalisation And Manufacturing (CAMBRIDGE ECONOMETRICS LTD) - Cockerill, T.
- Dynamic Common Factor Models For Regional Time Series (ESRC) - Harvey, A. C.
- Time-Varying Quantiles (ESRC) - Harvey, A. C.
- Inference in Microeconometric Models (MiMo) (ECH2020 EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC)) - Jochmans, K.
- Namsef - Nonparametric And Semiparametric Methods In Economics And Finance (EC FP7 ERC AIG) - Linton, O.
- International Economic Linkages And Synchronisation In Business Cycles (EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK) - Pesaran, M. H.
- Dynamic Panel Analysis Of Interactions And Nonlinearities (ESRC) - Pesaran, M. H.
- Real Time Econometrics, And/Or Forecasting Time Series Subject To Multiple Structural Breaks (SINOPIA ASSET MANAGEMENT) - Pesaran, M. H.
- Major Research Fellowship For R Smith (LEVERHULME TRUST) - Smith, R.
Keynes Fund Sponsored Projects
- Dynamic Models for Volatility and Heavy Tails (JHLC) - Harvey, A. C. Project Summary and Output
- Dynamic Models for Volatility and Heavy Tails (JHLH) - Harvey, A. C. Project Summary and Output
- Persistence and Forecasting in Climate and Environmental Econometrics (JHUS) - Harvey, A. C. Project Summary and Output
- Forecasting and Policy in Environmental Econometrics (JHVL) - Harvey, A. and Simons, J. Project Summary and Output
- The Effectiveness of Circuit Breakers on the LSE (JHLD) - Linton, O. Project Summary and Output
- Central Clearing and the Demand for Risk Sharing in OTC Derivative Markets (JHOF) - Linton, O. Project Summary and Output
- High-dimensional Cointegration Analysis (JHOY) - Onatskiy, A. and Wang, C. Project Summary and Output
- Robust Estimation and Inference (JHOK) - Smith, R. J. and Patel, A. Project Summary and Output
Published Papers
Boneva, L., Elliott, D., Kaminska, I., Linton, O., McLaren, N. and Morley, B. The Impact of Corporate QE on Liquidity: Evidence from the UK, The Economic Journal, forthcoming (2022)Ding, Y. A Simple Joint Model for Returns, Volatility and Volatility of Volatility, Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming (2022)
Merrick Li, Z. and Linton, O. A ReMeDI for Microstructure Noise, Econometrica (2022)
Wu, J., Zhang, Z. and Zhou, S. X. Credit Rating Prediction Through Supply Chains: A Machine Learning Approach, Production and Operations Management (2021)
Onatski, A. and Wang, C. Spectral Distribution of the Sample Covariance of High-Dimensional Time Series With Unit Roots, Statistica Sinica, forthcoming (2021)
Kahn, M. E., Mohaddes, K., Ng, R. N. C., Pesaran, M. H., Raissi, M. and Yang, J-C. Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change: A Cross-Country Analysis, Energy Economics (2021)
Harvey, A. C. Time Series Models for Epidemics: Leading Indicators, Control Groups and Policy Assessment, National Institute Economic Review (2021)
Harvey, A. C. Score-Driven Time Series Models, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, to appear (2021)
Harvey, A. C., Kattuman, P. and Thamotheram, C. Tracking The Mutant: Forecasting and Nowcasting COVID-19 in the UK in 2021, National Institute Economic Review (2021)
Li, S. and Linton, O. When Will the Covid-19 Pandemic Peak?, Journal of Econometrics (2021)
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
Vogt, M., Walsh, C., Linton, O. CCE Estimation of High-Dimensional Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects, CWPE2242
Gao, J., Linton, O., Peng, B. A Nonparametric Panel Model for Climate Data with Seasonal and Spatial Variation, CWPE2239

Linton, O. B., Tang, H., Wu, J. A Structural Dynamic Factor Model for Daily Global Stock Market Returns, CWPE2237

Chudik, A., Pesaran, M. H., Rebucci, A. Social Distancing, Vaccination and Evolution of COVID-19 Transmission Rates in Europe, CWPE2230

Gao, Z., Pesaran, M. H. Identification and Estimation of Categorical Random Coeficient Models, CWPE2228

Cun, W., Pesaran, M. H. A Spatiotemporal Equilibrium Model of Migration and Housing Interlinkages, CWPE2225

Nocera, A., Pesaran, M. H. Causal effects of the Fed's large-scale asset purchases on firms' capital structure, CWPE2224

Pesaran, M. H., Pick, A., Timmermann, A. Forecasting with panel data: estimation uncertainty versus parameter heterogeneity, CWPE2219

Bu, R., Li, D., Linton, O., Wang, H. Nonparametric Estimation of Large Spot Volatility Matrices for High-Frequency Financial Data, CWPE2218

Chudik, A., Pesaran, M. H. and Smith, R. P. Revisiting the Great Ratios Hypothesis, CWPE2215

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Authored Books
Linton, O. The Models and Methods of Financial Econometrics, (2019), Cambridge University PressLinton, O. Probability, Statistics and Econometrics, (2017), Science Direct
Harvey, A. C. Dynamic models for Volatility and Heavy Tails, (2013), Cambridge University Press
Pesaran, B. and Pesaran, M.H. Time series econometrics using Microfit 5.0: a user's manual, (2010), Oxford University Press
Chapter in Book
Funie, A-I., Guo, L., Niu, X., Luk, W. and Salmon, M. Custom Framework for Run-Time Trading Strategies, (2017), forthcoming in Applied Reconfigurable Computing. - Springer International PublishingLinton, O. and Xiao, Z. Quantile regression applications in finance, (2017), forthcoming in Handbook of quantile regression . Edited by Roger Koenker, Victor Chernozhukov, He Xuming - CRC Press
Kurek, M., Becker, T., Guo, C., Denholm, S., Funie, A-I., Salmon, M., Todman, T. and Luk, W. Self-aware Hardware Acceleration of Financial Applications on a Heterogeneous Cluster, (2016), forthcoming in Self-aware Computing Systems: An Engineering Approach. - Springer International Publishing
Nolte, I. and Salmon, M. Introduction, (2014), forthcoming in High frequency trading and limit order book dynamics. Edited by Ingmar Nolte, Mark Salmon, Chris Adcock - Routledge
Dell Monache, D. and Harvey, A. C. Specification and misspecification of unobserved components models, (2012), forthcoming in Economic time series: modeling and seasonality. Edited by William Bell, Scott Holan, Tucker McElroy - CRC Press
Linton, O. and Park, S. Realized volatility : theory and applications, (2012), forthcoming in Handbook of volatility models and their applications. Edited by Luc Bauwens, Christian Hafner, Sebastian Laurent - Wiley
Xia, Y., Haerdle, W. and Linton, O. Optimal smoothing for a computationally and statistically efficient single index estimator, (2011), forthcoming in Exploring research frontiers in contemporary statistics and econometrics : a festschrift for Leopold Simar. Edited by Ingrid Van Keilegom, Paul Wilson - Springer / Physica Verlag
Pesaran, M.H. Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis, (2010), forthcoming in Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance. Edited by Aman Ullah, David Giles - Taylor & Francis
Li, S. and Linton, O. Evaluating hedge fund performance: a stochastic dominance approach , (2010), forthcoming in Handbook of portfolio construction: contemporary applications of Markowitz techniques. Edited by John Guerard - Springer
Chapter in Book
eds. Nolte, I. and Salmon, M. High frequency trading and limit order book dynamics, (2014) - RoutledgeConference Publication
Cross, A.-I., Luk, W. Guo,- L. and Salmon, M. CJS: Custom Jacobi solver, (2018) 9th International Symposium on Highly-Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies, Toronto, CanadaCross, A.-I., Guo, L., Luk, W. and Salmon, M. CRRS: Custom regression and regularisation solver for large-scale linear systems, (2018) 28th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, Dublin, Ireland
Funie, A-I., Grigoras, P., Burovskiy, P., Luk, W. and Salmon, M. Reconfigurable acceleration of fitness evaluation in trading strategies, (2015) IEEE 26th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Toronto, ON, Canada
Funie, A-I., Salmon, M. and Luk, W. A Hybrid Genetic-Programming Swarm-Optimisation Approach for Examining the Nature and Stability of High Frequency Trading Strategies, (2014) 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, IEEE, Detroit, MI, USA
