Department of Economics
Dalhousie University
6214 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:
Theoretical and applied econometrics
Current Research
Semi- and nonparametric methods in econometrics
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor, Department of Economics. Dalhousie University, 2009-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, 2004-2009
Selected Awards and Honours
2014 Department of Economics 2014 Teaching Award, Dalhousie University
2000 - 2003 McConnell McGill Major Fellowship, McGill University
1999 - 2000 Women’s Centennial McGill Major Fellowship, McGill University
1999 - 2000 Fellowship of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, McGill University
1998 - 1999 Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship, McGill University
1996 - 1998 E. Muskie Freedom Support Act Fellowship in Economics, the United States Information Agency
Selected Publications
Boulatoff, C., T. Iscan, Y. Kotlyarova (2022) "Does distance matter for trade in services? The case of interprovincial trade in Canada", Open Economies Review 33, 157-185
Kotlyarova, Y., M. M. A. Schafgans, V. Zinde-Walsh (2021) "Rates of expansions for functional estimators", Journal of Quantitative Economics 19 (Suppl 1), S121-S139
Kotlyarova, Y., M. M. A. Schafgans, V. Zinde-Walsh (2016) “Smoothness: Bias and Efficiency of Nonparametric Kernel Estimators”, in G. Gonzalez-Rivera, R. C. Hill, T.-H. Lee (ed.) Essays in Honor of Aman Ullah (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 36) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 561 - 589
Kotlyarova, Y. and V. Zinde-Walsh (2010) “Robust estimation in binary choice models”, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods 39, 266 - 279
Kotlyarova, Y. and V. Zinde-Walsh (2007) “Robust kernel estimator for densities of unknown smoothness”, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 19, 89 - 101
Kotlyarova, Y. and V. Zinde-Walsh (2006) “Non- and semi-parametric estimation in models with unknown smoothness”, Economics Letters 93, 379 - 386
Kotlyarova, Y. (1999) “Minimum distance estimator with L1 norm – Solutions”, Econometric Theory 15, 903 - 904
Education
PhD in Economics, McGill University, Canada
MSc in Policy Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
University Diploma of Specialist in Software Engineering, Lviv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine
