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57
Citations
26505
World Ranking
925
National Ranking
580

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

George Tauchen is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on subfields including Finance and Economics and Econometrics. The main topics addressed in their work cover Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Housing Market and Economics, Stochastic Processes and Financial Applications, and Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling.

Their publication record includes work in several academic venues:

  • Journal of Financial Econometrics
  • Journal of risk and financial management
  • Journal of Econometrics
  • UNC Libraries

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by George Tauchen include:

  • Disagreement in Market Index Options, 2023, Journal of Financial Econometrics
  • Cash Flows Discounted Using a Model-Free SDF Extracted under a Yield Curve Prior, 2021, Journal of risk and financial management
  • New directions in nonlinear structural estimation: Bayes and Frequentist, 2021, Journal of Econometrics
  • Using Daily Range Data to Calibrate Volatility Diffusions and Extract the Forward Integrated Variance, 2021, UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors collaborating with George Tauchen include:

  • A. Ronald Gallant
  • Guilherme Ferreira Pelucio Salome
  • Jia Li
  • Chien Te Hsu

Their work predominantly deals with quantitative and econometric methods applied to financial markets, with notable attention to volatility modeling and risk assessment. The distribution of research topics also reflects an interdisciplinary approach combining elements of economics, finance, and statistical modeling.

George Tauchen has been recognized by professional organizations through fellowships, including:

  • Fellows of the Econometric Society, 1994
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1993

Best Publications

  • Finite state markov-chain approximations to univariate and vector autoregressions

    George Tauchen

  • THE PRICE VARIABILITY-VOLUME RELATIONSHIP ON SPECULATIVE MARKETS

    George E Tauchen;Mark Pitts

  • Stock Prices and Volume

    A. Ronald Gallant;Peter E. Rossi;George Tauchen

  • Expected Stock Returns and Variance Risk Premia

    Tim Bollerslev;George Tauchen;Hao Zhou

  • Expected Stock Returns and Variance Risk Premia

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  • WHICH MOMENTS TO MATCH

    A. Ronald Gallant;George Tauchen

  • Quadrature-Based Methods for Obtaining Approximate Solutions to Nonlinear Asset Pricing Models

    George Tauchen;Robert Hussey

  • Alternative models for stock price dynamics

    Mikhail Chernov;A. Ronald Gallant;Eric Ghysels;George Tauchen

  • The Relative Contribution of Jumps to Total Price Variance

    Xin Huang;George Tauchen

  • "Seminonparametric Estimation of Conditionally Constrained Heterogeneous Processes: Asset Pricing Applications"

    A Ronald Gallant;George Tauchen

  • Nonlinear dynamic structures

    A. Ronald Gallant;Peter E. Rossi;George Tauchen

  • Leverage and Volatility Feedback Effects in High-Frequency Data

    Tim Bollerslev;Julia Litvinova;George Tauchen

  • The Effect of Liquor Taxes on Heavy Drinking

    Philip J. Cook;George Tauchen

  • Diagnostic testing and evaluation of maximum likelihood models

    George E Tauchen

  • Statistical Properties of Generalized Method-of-Moments Estimators of Structural Parameters Obtained From Financial Market Data

    George E Tauchen

  • Estimation of stochastic volatility models with diagnostics

    A.Ronald Gallant;David Hsieh;George Tauchen

  • Risk, Jumps, and Diversification

    Tim Bollerslev;Tzuo Hann Law;George Tauchen

  • USING DAILY RANGE DATA TO CALIBRATE VOLATILITY DIFFUSIONS AND EXTRACT THE FORWARD INTEGRATED VARIANCE

    A. Ronald Gallant;Chien-Te Hsu;George Tauchen

  • On Fitting A Recalcitrant Series: The Pound/Dollar Exchange Rate, 1974- 83

    A. Gallant;D. Hsieh;George Tauchen

  • Reprojecting Partially Observed Systems with Application to Interest Rate Diffusions

    A. Ronald Gallant;George Tauchen

  • Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods in Econometrics and Statistics

    William Barnett;James Powell;George Tauchen

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Ronald Gallant
A. Ronald Gallant Pennsylvania State University
Tim Bollerslev
Tim Bollerslev Duke University
Eric Ghysels
Eric Ghysels University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hao Zhou
Hao Zhou Tsinghua University
David A. Hsieh
David A. Hsieh Duke University
Mikhail Chernov
Mikhail Chernov University of California, Los Angeles
Torben G. Andersen
Torben G. Andersen Northwestern University
James L. Powell
James L. Powell University of California, Berkeley
William A. Barnett
William A. Barnett University of Kansas
Philip J. Cook
Philip J. Cook Duke University

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