Previous Seminars
Spring 2017
February 28, 2017
Benjamin Connault – University of Pennsylvania
Kernel Filtering
March 21, 2017
Martin Weidner – University College London
Fixed-Effect Regressions on Network Data
March 28, 2017
Gizem Kosar – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Title to be announced
April 4, 2017
Nicholas Buchholz – Princeton University
Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions and Efficient Regulation in the Taxi Industry
April 11, 2017
Oeystein Daljord – University of Chicago Booth
Identifying the Discount Factor in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
April 18, 2017
Myrto Kalouptsidi – Harvard University
Search Frictions and Trade Costs
April 25, 2017
Bernard Salanié – Columbia University
Title to be announced
May 2, 2017
Kim Sellers – Georgetown University
Title to be announced
Fall 2016
September 13, 2016
Lorenzo Caliendo – Yale University
Trade and Labor Market Dynamics
September 20, 2016
Federico Ciliberto – University of Virginia
Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets
September 27, 2016
Manasa Patnam – CREST-ENSAE
Correcting for Sample Selection From Competitive Bidding, with an Application to Estimating the Effect of Wages on Performance
October 4, 2016
Ivan Fernandez-Val – Boston University
The Sorted Effects Method: Discovering Heterogeneous Effects Beyond Their Averages
October 12, 2016
John Abowd -Cornell
Title to be announced
October 18, 2016
Whitney Newey -MIT
Title to be announced
October 19, 2016
Alessandro Lizzeri– New York University
Title to be announced
October 25, 2016
Daniel Ackerberg -UCLA
Timing and Information Set Assumptions in a Production Function Context
Short Paper #1 and Short Paper #2
November 8, 2016
Benoit Perron – University of Montreal
Title to be announced
November 15, 2016
Basit Zafar– Federal Reserve Bank of NY
Title to be announced
November 29, 2016
Seung-Hyun Hong – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Principal-Agent Problems in Search and Bargaining: Evidence from Dual Agency in Residential Real Estate Transactions
December 6, 2016
Shuyang Sheng – University of California, Los Angeles
Title to be announced
December 13, 2016
Joris Pinkse – Penn State University
Title to be announced
Spring 2016
March 1, 2016
Stephane Bonhomme – University of Chicago
A Distributional Framework for Matched Employer Employee Data
March 15, 2016
Ivana Komunjer – UC San Diego
Nonparametric Identification in Nonlinear Simultaneous Equations Models: The Case of Covariance Restrictions
March 29, 2016
Mikka Rokkanen – Columbia University
Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable
April 5, 2016
Rasmus Lentz – University of Wisconsin
Training and Search On the Job
April 12, 2016
Federico Bugni – Duke University
Inference under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
May 3, 2016
Daniel Ringo – Federal Reserve Board
On The Effect of Student Loans on Access to Homeownership
May 12, 2016
Orazio Attanasio – University College London
Beliefs and Parental Investment
Fall 2015
September 8, 2015
Michael Gechter – Pennsylvania State University
Generalizing the Results from Social Experiments: Theory and Evidence from Mexico and India
September 16, 2015
Nathan Miller – Georgetown University
Merger Facilitate Tacit Collusion: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Brewing Industry
October 13, 2015
Xu Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
Shrinkage Estimation of High-Dimensional Factor Models with Structural Instabilities
October 20, 2015
Yuya Sasaki – Johns Hopkins University
A Fixed Point Approach to Infinite Mixture Models and Direct Counterfactual Analysis
October 27, 2015
Juan Rubio-Ramirez – Emory University
Inference based on SVARs Identified with Sign and Zero Restrictions: Theory and Applications
November 3, 2015
Marco Del Negro – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Dynamic Prediction Pools: An Investigation of Financial Frictions and Forecasting Performance
November 10, 2015
Flavio Cunha – Rice University
Eliciting Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation
November 17, 2015
Christopher Carroll – Johns Hopkins University
The Distribution of Wealth and the Marginal Propensity to Consume
December 1, 2015
Joe Altonji – Yale University
Unobservables When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: The Case of School and Neighborhood Effects
sPRING 2015
February 24, 2015
Hidehiko Ichimura – University of Tokyo
Conditioning Variables in Program Evaluation Methods
March 3, 2015
George Tauchen – Duke University
Jump Regressions
March 17, 2015
Nicholas Papageorge – Johns Hopkins University
The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market
March 24, 2015
Karim Chalak – University of Virginia
Identification of Average Effects under Magnitude and Sign Restrictions on Confounding
March 31, 2015
Chao Fu – University of Wisconsin
Structural Estimation of a Model of School Choices: The Boston Mechanism vs. Its Alternatives
March 31, 2015
Chao Fu – University of Wisconsin
Structural Estimation of a Model of School Choices: The Boston Mechanism vs. Its Alternatives
April 14, 2015
Denis Nekipelov – University of Virginia
A/B Testing of Auctions
April 28, 2015
Juan Pantano – Washington University in St. Louis
Policy Interventions when Medical Treatment Dynamics Matter: The Case of in Vitro Fertilization
May 4, 2015
Roberto Steri – University of Lausanne
Dynamic Corporate Liquidity