Dr William Pouliot

Dr William Pouliot

The Department of Economics
Lecturer in Economics

Contact details

Telephone
(0121) 414 5023
Fax
(0121) 414 7377
Email
w.pouliot@bham.ac.uk
Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Research interests: Econometric Theory, Financial Econometrics, Labour Economics

Qualifications

 

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Economics, City University)
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Mathematics, Carleton University)

Biography

Pouliot’s research looks at different areas of econometrics as it relates to testing of parameter stability in regression and risk models; in particular this research applies theories of weak convergence to establish limiting distributions of test statistics that are used to test for parameter stability in these models.    His research also looks at the role uncertainty plays in OLG models and how it can affect first best outcomes; his research shows that uncertainty can lead to multiple steady states and can impact household’s decisions in such a way that the first best outcome is no longer attainable.

Teaching

Teaching responsibilities include providing lectures in Advanced Econometrics and Undergraduate Econometrics.

Administration includes MSc. and extended essay allocation.

Research


  • Econometric Theory
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Labour Economics

Publications

Pouliot, W. (2016). Robust tests for change in intercept and slope in linear regression models with application to manager performance in the mutual fund industry, Economic Modelling 

Pouliot, W. (2016). On density and regression estimation with incomplete data, Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods 

Pouliot, W. (2016). Weighted bootstrapped kernel density estimators in two-sample problems, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 

Pouliot, W. (2016). Detecting At-Most-m-Changes in Linear Regression Models, Journal of Time Series Analysis

Pouliot, W. (2015).  A Weighted Bootstrap Approximation of Lp-norms of Two-sample Statistics for Kernel Density Estimators, (with Mojirsheiani, M) under review. 

Pouliot, W. (2012).  Pollution, Mortality and Optimal Environmental Policy, University of Birmingham Discussion Paper No. 12-05 (with Goenka, A. and Jafarey S.) revise and resubmit Economic Theory.

Pouliot, W. (2011).  Detecting the Presence of Insider Trading via Structural Break Tests, Journal of Banking and Finance, (with J. Olmo and K. Pilbeam).

Pouliot, W. (2011).  Early Detection Techniques for Market Risk Failure, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, (with J. Olmo)

Pouliot, W. (2006).  Introducing Uncertainty into Beland and Robinson’s Model of Child Labour, Journal of Development Economics, vol .79.

Pouliot, W. (2004).  Tabulating Sup-Norm Functionals Used in Change-Point Analysis, Statistical Computation and Simulation (with M. Orasch).

Discussion Papers

Olmo, J and Pouliot, W (2015) U-statistic type tests to disentangle change in slope from change in intercept in linear regression models, University of Birmingham Discussion Paper 14-02 (with J. Olmo).

Ercolani, M. and Pouliot, W. (2015), Luck versus skill over time:Time Varying Performance in the Cross-Section of Mutual Fund Returns. Submitted to Special Issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance.