Acknowledgments

A conference in honour of Aman Ullah took place at Riverside Mission Inn on March 13–15, 2015 to celebrate his long and productive academic career. We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support (in alphabetical order): editors of Advances in Econometrics, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Info-Metrics Institute of American University, International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) and the University of California Riverside’s College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Department of Statistics, School of Business Administration and School of Public Policy.

We also like to express our thanks to the following UC-Riverside staff: Damaris Carlos, Gary Kuzas, Mark Manalang, Tanya Wine (and Mark Wine) and Patricia Winkler, and two of our graduate students: Bai Huang and Najrin Khanom. Their hard work and dedication before, during, and after the event made our work much easier.