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Martin Burda

 

Department of Economics                                 Phone:    416-978-4479

University of Toronto                                       Fax:        416-978-6713                              

150 St. George St., room 234                            Email:     martin.burda[at]utoronto.ca

Toronto, ON, M5S 3G7, Canada                          Web:      www.economics.utoronto.ca/mburda

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • 2007 – present: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2007
    - Dissertation Title: "Essays in Semiparametric Econometrics and Panel Data Analysis"
    - Dissertation Advisors: Mehmet Caner, Jean-François Richard, Nese Yildiz

  • M.A. in Economics, McGill University, Canada, 2001

  • Bc./BSc. in Economics and Bus. Admin., University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, (joint), 2000

RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

  • Econometrics (theoretical and applied), Bayesian analysis

PUBLICATIONS

  • "A Poisson Mixture Model of Discrete Choice" (with M. Harding and J. Hausman)
    Journal of Econometrics    , 166 (2), 184–203, 2012.

  • "Bayesian Analysis of a Probit Panel Data Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors" (with R. Liesenfeld and J.-F. Richard)
    International Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, 6(1-2), 1-21, 2011.

  • "A Bayesian Mixed Logit-Probit Model for Multinomial Choice" (with M. Harding and J. Hausman)
    J    ournal of Econometrics, 147(2), 232–246, 2008.

WORKING PAPERS

  • "Bayesian Estimation of Games under Rationalizability" (with V. Aguirregabiria); January 2012

  • "Bayesian Adaptively Updated Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with an Application to High-Dimensional BEKK GARCH Models"
    (with J. Maheu); October 2011

  • "Panel Probit with Flexible Correlated Effects: Quantifying Technology Spillovers in the Presence of Latent Heterogeneity" (with M. Harding), May 2010; October 2011
    Revised and resubmitted, Journal of Applied Econometrics.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

  • "A Bayesian Semiparametric Duration Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity" (with M. Harding and J. Hausman)

  • "A Poisson Mixture Model with Ordered Selection" with (R. Grant)

  • "Copula-based Analysis of Random Coefficient Multinomial Choice Models"

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Refereeing: Journal of Econometrics (5), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (5), Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (3), Journal of Comparative Economics

  • Co-organizer of a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) summer workshop on:
    1. "Advances in Nonparametric Econometrics," with M. Harding and H. Hong, July 2009
    2. "Complex Data in Economics: Spatial Models, Social Networks and Factor Models," with M. Harding, July 2008

  • Project reviewer:
    - U.S. National Science Foundation 2009, 2010, 2011
    - Government of Canada 2011
    - Czech Science Foundation - GAČR 2010, 2011
    - Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia 2007

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Research Fellow at IES, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2012-2014)

SHORT RESEARCH VISITS

  • Stanford University - July 2008 (1 week), July 2009 (1 week)

  • CIREQ (Concordia, Montreal) – February 2012 (1 week, scheduled)

  • IES, Charles University, Prague – May 2012 (1 week, scheduled)

INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

  • 2011: Harvard-MIT

  • 2010: Brown University

  • 2009: Columbia University, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Rochester

  • 2008: Pennsylvania State University; Queen's University; University of Guelph; University of Texas at Austin; University of Montreal; Ohio State University

  • 2007 (July - December): Fudan University, Shanghai, China; HEC Montreal; University of Western Ontario; Concordia University (CIREQ)

  • 2007 (January - March): University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Purdue University; Simon Fraser University; University of Toronto; Georgetown University; Warwick University; Oxford University (Nuffield College); Tilburg University

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • Econometric Society Meetings (Tokyo U., Japan 2009; Boston U. 2009; Bocconi U., Milan, Italy 2008; SMU, Singapore 2008; New Orleans 2008; Duke U., Durham, NC 2007)

  • Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), summer workshop, co-organizer (Stanford U., CA 2009, 2008)

  • Midwest Econometrics Group (U. of Chicago, Booth 2011; Wash. U. St. Louis, MO 2010; Purdue, IN 2009; KU, Lawrence, KS 2008; SLU, St. Louis, MO 2007; UC, Cincinnati, OH 2006)

  • Canadian Economics Association Conference (U of T, Toronto, ON 2009; UBC, Vancouver, BC 2008)

  • Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics (WUSTL, St. Louis, MO 2011, 2009; U. of Chicago GSB 2008)

  • Canadian Econometric Study Group Meetings (Toronto 2011; Ottawa 2009; Concordia, Montreal 2008; McGill, Montreal 2007)

  • International Conference on Panel Data (McGill U., Montreal 2011; WISE, Xiamen University, China 2007)

  • Cowles Foundation Econometrics Summer Conference (Yale University 2011)

  • Workshop on High-Dimensional Econometric Modelling (Cass Business School, London, UK 2010)

  • Econometric Analysis of Scanner Data workshop, IFS and Cemmap (London, UK 2010)

  • 7th workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics (Paris, France 2008)

  • Conference of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics (SNDE), invited session (Fed, San Francisco, CA 2008)

  • CIREQ Conference on GMM (Montreal 2007)

  • Royal Economic Society, 2nd PhD Presentation Meeting (LSE, London, UK 2007)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (COURSE INSTRUCTOR)

  • University of Toronto
    - Econometrics MA (ECO 2408), graduate, fall 2010 - present
    - Econometrics II (ECO 2401), graduate, winters 2007 - 2010 (joint with Victor Aguirregabiria)

    - Mathematics and Statistics for PhD and MA Doctoral Stream Students (ECO 1011), 
      summers 2009 - present (joint with Shouyong Shi)

    - Applied Econometrics (for Commerce) (ECO 374), undergraduate, fall 2008 - present
    - Applied Econometrics (ECO 327), undergraduate, fall 2007, winter 2008

  • University of Pittsburgh
    - Applied Econometrics (ECON 1150), undergraduate, winter 2005, summer 2005

STUDENT SUPERVISION

  • Zhongfang He (committee member, PhD 2009, first placement: Bank of Canada)

  • Yong Song (committee member, PhD 2011, first placement: University of Technology Sydney)

  • Tajinder Pal Singh (committee member, PhD 2011)

  • Xin Jin (committee member)

  • Ding Ding (committee member)

  • Paul Karapanagiotidis (committee member)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2010 - 2012

  • SSHRC University of Toronto Institutional Grant (SIG), 2008, 2009

  • Connaught Start-up Award, University of Toronto, 2007

  • Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 – 2007

  • Richard S. Thorn Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2004

  • Faculty of Arts & Sciences Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2001

  • Departmental Scholarship, McGill University, 2000

  • Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Fellowship, McGill University, 2000

  • European Union Academic Scholarship ERASMUS, Uppsala University, 1998 – 1999

  • University Scholarship, University of Economics, Prague, 1997

  • Full Academic Scholarship, Clifton College, A-levels, 1994 – 1996

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • Fortran 90/95, R, Stata, Matlab, Gauss, Unix/Linux literate

  • Parallel Programming: Fortran OpenMP at SHARCNET (Compute Canada)

LANGUAGES

  • Czech (native), English (fluent), Russian (advanced), German (advanced), Swedish (intermediate)

OTHER INFORMATION

  • Citizenship: Czech Republic, born in Vyškov (1977); Canadian permanent resident

  • Marital status: married, 1 child (born May 2011)

  • Prague International Marathon (1997), Czech National Championship in Mountain Orienteering (1997)

Last updated: January 2012