Carlos Lamarche visited the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in China from June 13 to June 24 and the University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina from August 8 to August 12, 2016. He gave lectures on "Recent Advances in Quantile Regression, and High Dimensional Models and Big Data." Carlos Lamarche presented “Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data” (co-authored with M. Harding) at the 2016 China Econometrics Society Meeting on June 26, 2016 in Chengdu, China.