Feng,Qiang
Correspondence address:
Boxue Building 1223, UIBE Beijing, 100029, China
E-mail: fengqiang204@gmail.com
Current Position
05/2012-present, Assistant Professor, University of International Business and Economics,Beijing.
Education and Degrees
10/2007/01/2012, PhD in Economics, University of Cambridge.
Dissertation title: “Essays in Econometrics”.
Supervisor: Prof Richard J. Smith.
Research Advisor: Prof M. Hashem Pesaran.
Examiners: Prof Frank Windmeijer (external) and Dr Melvyn Weeks (internal).
08/2006/10/2007, PhD in Economics (finished 1st year courses), Michigan State University.
07/2006, MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics.
07/2005, BSc in Economics, London School of Economics.
Research Interests
Primary: Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Semiparametric Econometrics.
Secondary: Modelling and Forecasting Real Estate Market.
Research
Feng, Q. (2012): “A GEL-based AIC for Model Selection”, Economics Letters, 116(3),637-639.
“Confidence Sets for GMM Estimators under Weak Identification with Inequality Moment Restrictions”, with Heather Battey and Richard J. Smith. May, 2012.
“Quantile Regression for Random Effects Panel Data Models”, September, 2012.
Working Experience
05/2012-present, Assistant Professor, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing.
10/2009-07/2011, Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.
10/2008-07/2011, Supervisor (Tutorial Teacher), St. John's College, Cambridge.
10/2010-07/2011, Supervisor (Tutorial Teacher), Hughes Hall, St. Edmund's, and Trinity Hall Colleges, Cambridge.
08/2006-06/2007, Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, MSU.
Scholarships and Awards
10/2010-07/2011, Best Teaching Assistant Prize, Cambridge.
09/2008-06/2011, Tudor Studentship in Financial Econometrics, Cambridge.
06/2008-06/2009, Stevenson Fund, Cambridge.
08/2006-06/2007, Teaching Assistantship (merit based), Michigan State University.
Conferences and Summer Schools
09/2010, Student Econometrics Workshop (Oxford-Man Institute, Oxford, UK).
09/2007, Cambridge Judge Business School Doctoral Conference (Cambridge, UK).
01/2010, cemmap Masterclass on “Nonparametric Likelihood”.
06/2010, cemmap Masterclass on “Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation”.
06/2009, cemmap/ ESRC Econometric Study Group Workshop on Quantile Regression,(London, UK)
06/2009, cemmap Masterclass on “New Developments in Econometrics”.
05/2009, cemmap Masterclass on “Semi and Non-parametric Econometric Methods”.
03/2009, 4th London and Oxbridge Time Series Workshop, (London, UK).
11/2008, CIMF Conference on `Forecasting under Model Instability', (Cambridge, UK).
03/2008, cemmap Conference on “Inference in Partially Identi_ed Models with Applica-tions” (London, UK).
Languages
English-fuent, Chinese-native.
Computer Skills
Matlab, Stata, EViews, Gauss.