Curriculum Vita
Contact Information
Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
Eagle House Oxford OX2 6EE UK
Phone: +44 1865 616 613
Email: kevin.sheppard@economics.ox.ac.uk
Web: http://www.kevinsheppard.com/
Personal Information
Citizenship: UK (Naturalized), USA DOB: March 26, 1974
Education
University of California - San Diego
2004 Ph.D. in Economics
2001 C.Phil in Economics
University of Texas - Austin
1998 B.A. in Economics
1998 B.S. in Mathematics
Employment
Current
University of Oxford (August 2004 - Present)
University Lecturer, Department of Economics (Tenured) Keble College (August 2004 - Present)
Tutorial Fellow
Previous
Federal Reserve Board of Governors (July - October 2003) Summer Intern
Regional Economic Research (August 2001) Consultant
European Central Bank (February - March 2002) Consultant
Prizes
Stone Prize (2012). Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Publications
Refereed
“Multivariate High-Frequency-based Volatility (HEAVY) Models”, Journal of Applied Econometrics (27:6), 2012, pp.
907–933 (with D. Noureldin and N. Shephard)
“Nuisance parameters, composite likelihoods and a panel of GARCH models”, Statistica Sinica (21), 2011, pp.
307–329 (with C. Pakel and N. Shephard)
“Realising the future: forecasting with high-frequency-based volatility (HEAVY) models”, Journal of Applied Econo- metrics (25:2), 2010, pp. 197–231 (with N. Shephard)
“Optimal Combinations of Realised Volatility Estimators”, International Journal of Forecasting (25:3), 2008, pp.
218-238 (with A. J. Patton)
“Asymmetric Dynamics in the Correlations of Global Equity and Bond Returns”, Journal of Financial Econometrics
(4:4), 2006, pp. 537-572 (with R. Engle and L. Cappiello)
“On the Complexity of Consumer Decision Rules”, Computational Economics (23:2), March 2004, pp. 173-92 (with
A. Norman, et. al.)
“An Ordering Experiment”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. (50:2), February 2003, pp. 249-62 (with A. Norman, et. al.)
Other
“Evaluating Volatility Forecasts” Handbook of Financial Time Series. 2009 (with A. Patton)
“Multi-Step estimation of Multivariate GARCH models ” Proceedings of the International ICSC Symposium: Ad- vanced Computing in Financial Markets. June 2001
Working Papers
“Does Anything Beat 5-Minute RV? A Comparison of Realized Measures Across Multiple Asset Classes”, Decem- ber 2012, with L. Liu and A. Patton
“Multivariate Rotated ARCH Models”, with D. Noureldin and N. Shephard, September 2012
“Ambiguity and the historical equity premium”, August 2012, with F. Collard, S. Mukerji and J.-M. Tallon
“Efficient and feasible inference for the components of financial variation using blocked multipower variation”, February 2012, with P. Mykland and N. Shephard
“Good Volatility, Bad Volatility: Signed Jumps and the Persistence of Volatility”, February 2010, with A. Patton
“Fitting vast dimensional time-varying covariance models”, August 2008, with R. F. Engle N. Shephard
“Theoretical Properties of Dynamic Conditional Correlation Multivariate GARCH”, December 2007, with R.F. Engle
“Evaluating the Specification of Covariance Models for Large Portfolios”, November 2007 , With R.F. Engle
“Realized Covariance and Scrambling”, February 2006
“Economic Factors and the Covariance of Equity Returns”, November 2003
Conferences and Invited Talks
Upcoming
2013: Bath, Bilkent, CIREQ Econometrics Conference, TSE Financial Econometrics Conference, NYU, EUI Volatil- ity Workshop
Past
2012: NUS, Financial Econometrics Conference (Toulouse), LSE
2011: Macro and Financial Econometrics Conference (Heidelberg), Financial Econometrics Conference (Toulouse), Society of Financial Econometrics, Chicago, Toulouse, HUKU
2010: Society of Financial Econometrics, International Symposium on Forecasting, Econometric Society World
Congress, Aarhus
2009: American Economic Association Winter, North American Econometric Society Winter, University of Penn- sylvania, Financial Econometrics and Statistics Conference
2008: European Econometric Society, Stanford SITE, Society of Financial Econometrics, Imperial Financial Econo- metrics, Oxford-Man Institute Conference on Vast Data, Warwick, CORE (Belgium)
2007: European Econometric Society, Stanford SITE, Multivariate Volatility (Faro), European Central Bank, Brunel
University, Cambridge, ECARES (Belgium)
2006: European Econometric Society, Australasian Econometric Society, CIRANO/CIREQ Financial Econometrics
Conference, CIRANO/CIREQ Time-series Conference, Rotterdam
2005: London School of Economics
2004: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Editorial Service
Associate Editor
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (2012–present)
Referee
American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Review of Financial Studies, Annals of Finance, Journal of Financial Economet- rics, The Econometrics Journal, The Financial Review, International Journal of Money and Finance, Journal of Forecasting, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Berkeley Journal in Macroeconomics, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, International Journal of Forecast- ing, Empirical Economics
Professional Affiliations
Econometric Society, Society for Financial Econometrics, American Economic Association, American Finance
Association
Teaching
Ph.D. Students
Aaron Thegaya (2011), Kasper Lund-Jensen, Mathias Kruettli, Aino Levonmaa, Wen Xu, Yoel Furman
Teaching Material
Financial Econometrics Notes. October 2012
Financial Econometrics MFE MATLAB Notes: Revision 2 (R2012a). September 2012
Introduction to Python for Econometrics, Statistics and Data Analysis. March 2012
Graduate
2012/13 Financial Econometrics I & II
2010/11 Financial Econometrics I & II, Advanced Financial Econometrics (M.Sc.)
2009/10: Financial Econometrics I & II (M.Sc.)
2008/9: Financial Econometrics I & II, Advanced Financial Econometrics (M.Sc.)
2007/8: Financial Econometrics I & II (M.Sc.)
2006/7: Financial Econometrics II (M.Sc.), Advanced Financial Econometrics (M.Sc.), Advanced Econometrics (M. Phil)
2005/6: Financial Econometrics II (M.Sc), Advanced Econometrics (M. Phil)
2004/5: Advanced Econometrics (M. Phil)
Undergraduate
2012/13 Quantitative Economics, Econometrics, Macroeconomics
2010/11 Quantitative Economics, Econometrics
2009/10: Quantitative Economics, Econometrics
2008/9: Quantitative Economics, Econometrics
2007/8: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
2006/7: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
2005/6: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
2004/5: Microeconomics, Econometrics
2003/4: Econometrics
Other
Programming
MATLAB, Python, C#, C, Java, SAS
Current as of March 7, 2013