On28th Sep, 2017, we welcome Dr. Xirong Chen to our Applied Economics Colloquium.His talk is titled as Nonparametric Conditional Quantile Function Estimationfor Time Series Data. Dr. Xirong Chen got his Ph. D degree in the Department ofEconomics at Texas A&M University. His research lies in the areas of AppliedMicro-econometrics, Financial Econometrics, and Theoretical Econometrics. The Colloquiumis coordinated by Associate Prof. Xueying Yu from School of Economics andManagement at Beihang University.

Duringthe lecture, over 20 scholars from the SEM were involved in the discussion.They raised questions about the paper’s methodological framework and empiricalstrategies, which provokes further thinking on the issuefrom both parties.