**About the Editors**

**Norman R. Swanson** was educated at the University of Waterloo and the University of California, San Diego. He is currently a Professor in the Economics Department at Rutgers University. He has held previous positions at Pennsylvania State University (1994–1999), Texas A&M University (1999–2001), and Purdue University (2001–2002). His primary research interests include econometric theory, financial and macro econometrics, time series analysis, and forecasting. He is a fellow of the *Journal of Econometrics*, which is the top field journal in econometrics, and he is currently an associate editor of the *Journal of Business and Economic Statistics*, the *International Journal of Forecasting*, and the *European Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics*. He is, or has served, as guest editor for journals ranging from *Journal of Econometrics* to *Journal of Business and Economic Statistics*, and has previously acted as an associate editor to a number of journals, including *Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics* and *Empirical Economics*. He is a member of various professional organizations, including the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the American Economic Association, and the Canadian Economic Association. He has recent scholarly publications in leading economics and statistics journals including *Econometrica*, *Journal of Econometrics*, *Review of Economics and Statistics*, *Journal of Business and Economic Statistics*, and the *Journal of the American Statistical Association*, among others; and is, or has acted as, ongoing visiting scholar to various central banks, including The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Bank of Canada.

**Xiye Yang** an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University. Prior to joining Rutgers, Xiye received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam (2015) and MPhil from Tinbergen Institute (2011). In 2009, Xiye graduated with a BA in Economics and a BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Peking University, China. His research interests lie in the areas of econometric theory, financial econometrics, asset pricing, and empirical finance.
