George Tauchen is the William Henry Glasson Professor of Economics. He joined the Duke faculty in 1977 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Tauchen is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a fellow of the American Statistical Association. His teaching and research interests include econometrics, statistics, and financial economics. He teaches Economics 158, 341, 349, BA 553 (Fuqua's Ph.D. course in Empirical Finance), and he co-organizes the Triangle Econometrics Seminar jointly with faculty at UNC Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. His research has been has been published in the leading economics, statistics, and finance journals. His research has been supported by a long series of grants from the National Science Foundation. His current grant is for work on estimation and visualization of nonlinear economic models. Tauchen regularly gives research seminars at major US research universities and at international meetings conferences and research institutes. In 1995 he was Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and he gave an invited address at the Seventh World Congress of the Econometric Society in Tokyo Japan. In 1996 and 1997 he delivered extended series of lectures at European research universities and institutes. In August 1997 he was an invited speaker for the XV Meeting of the Latin American Econometric Society. He is out-going Editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (JBES) and former associate editor of Econometrica, Econometric Theory, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and JBES.
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