Past Seminars

Below is a chronological list of past seminars. For recordings, slides, and links to papers, please see the subpages.

Spring 2020

• Friday, March 27, 2020: Elena Manresa (NYU) [video]
  "An Adversarial Approach to Structural Estimation" (with Tetsuya Kaji and Guillaume Pouliot)
  Discussants: Áureo de Paula (UCL), Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford), Bernard Salanié (Columbia)
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

• Friday, April 10, 2020: Tim Armstrong (Yale) [video]
  "Robust Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals" (with Michal Kolesár and Mikkel Plagborg-Møller)
  Discussants: Bruce Hansen (Wisconsin), Toru Kitagawa (UCL)
  Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)

• Friday, April 24, 2020: Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (Princeton) [video]
  "Local Projection Inference is Simpler and More Robust Than You Think" (with José Luis Montiel Olea)
  Discussants: Anna Mikusheva (MIT), Atsushi Inoue (Vanderbilt)
  Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)

• Friday, May 8, 2020: Symposium on Synthetic Control Methods [video]
  Introduction: Alberto Abadie (MIT)
  Panelists: Susan Athey (Stanford), Bruno Ferman (Sao Paulo School of Economics), Kaspar Wüthrich (UC San Diego)
  Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)

• Friday, May 22, 2020: Maximilian Kasy (Oxford) [video]
  "What do we want? And when do we want it? Alternative objectives and their implications for experimental design."
  Discussants: David McKenzie (World Bank), Max Tabord-Meehan (Chicago)
  Moderator: Martin Weidner (UCL)

• Friday, June 5, 2020: Christoph Rothe (Mannheim) [video]
  "Bias-Aware Inference in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs" (with Claudia Noack)
  Discussants: Marinho Bertanha (Notre Dame), Keisuke Hirano (PSU)
  Moderator: Xiahong Chen (Yale)

• Friday, June 26, 2020: Applications of and Methods for Network Analysis [video]
  Panelists: Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford), Bryan Graham (Berkeley)
  Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)

Autumn 2020

• Friday, September 4, 2020: Symposium on Sensitivity Analyses [video]
  Panelists: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard), Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago), Timothy Christensen (NYU)
  Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)

• Friday, September 18, 2020: Max Farrell (Chicago Booth) [video]
  "Deep Neural Networks for Estimation and Inference" (with Tengyuan Liang, Sanjog Misra)
  Discussants: Tim Armstrong (Yale), Yinchu Zhu (Brandeis)
  Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

• Friday, October 2, 2020: Xu Cheng (Penn) [video]
  "Robust Model Evaluation with Applications to Asset Pricing Models" (with Winston W. Dou and Zhipeng Liao)
  Discussant: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
  Panelists: Frank Kleibergen (Amsterdam), Jia Li (Duke), Markus Pelger (Stanford)
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

• Friday, October 16, 2020: Yuehao Bai (Michigan), Julius Vainora (Cambridge), Andrei Zeleneev (UCL) [video]
  Yuehao Bai (Michigan): "Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials"
  Julius Vainora (Cambridge): "Network Dependence"
  Andrei Zeleneev (UCL): "Identification and Estimation of Network Models with Nonparametric Unobserved Heterogeneity"
  Moderator: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

• Friday, October 30, 2020: Raffaella Giacomini (UCL) [video]
  "Identification and Inference under Narrative Restrictions" (with Toru Kitagawa and Matthew Read)
  Discussant: José Luis Montiel Olea (Columbia)
  Panelists: Christian Wolf (Chicago), Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford), Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (Princeton)
  Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)

• Friday, November 13, 2020: Jiaying Gu (Toronto) [video]
  "Partial Identification in Nonseparable Binary Response Models with Endogenous Regressors" (with Thomas M. Russell)
  Discussant: Adam Rosen (Duke)
  Panelists: Wayne Gao (Penn), Florian Gunsilius (Michigan), Sukjin Han (Bristol), Takuya Ura (UC Davis)
  Moderator: Martin Weidner (UCL)

• Friday, December 11, 2020: Tutorial on Regression Discontinuity Designs [video]
  by Matias D. Cattaneo (Princeton)

Winter 2021

• Friday, January 15, 2021: Tincho Almuzara (New York Fed), Jonathan Roth (Microsoft Research), Matthew Thirkettle (Rice)  [video]
  Tincho Almuzara (New York Fed): "Heterogeneity in Transitory Income Risk"
  Jonathan Roth (Microsoft Research): "When Is Parallel Trends Sensitive to Functional Form?" (with Pedro Sant’Anna)
  Matthew Thirkettle (Rice): "Identification and Estimation of Network Statistics with Missing Link Data"
  Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

• Friday, January 29, 2021: Peter Hull (Chicago) [video]
  "Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications" (with Kirill Borusyak)
  Discussant: Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI)
  Panelists: Pedro Sant'Anna (Vanderbilt), Clément de Chaisemartin (UCSB), Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
  Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)

• Friday, February 12, 2021: Denis Chetverikov (UCLA) [video]
  "Spectral and post-spectral estimators for grouped panel data models" (with Elena Manresa)
  Discussant: Hyungsik Roger Moon (USC)
  Panelist: Liangjun Su (SMU)
  Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)

• Friday, February 26, 2021: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago) [video]
  "Teams: Heterogeneity, Sorting, and Complementarity"
  Discussant: Bryan S. Graham (Berkeley)
  Panelist: Martin Weidner (UCL), Josh Kinsler (Georgia)
  Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)

• Friday, March 12, 2021: Florian Gunsilius (Michigan) [video]
  "Distributional Synthetic Controls"
  Discussant: Kaspar Wüthrich (UCSD)
  Panelists: Alberto Abadie (MIT), Davide Viviano (UCSD)
  Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)

• Friday, March 26, 2021: Vira Semenova (Berkeley) [video]
  "Better Lee Bounds"
  Discussant: Jörg Stoye (Cornell)
  Panelist: Alexandre Poirier (Georgetown)
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

Spring 2021

• Friday, April 9, 2021: Alex Torgovitsky (Chicago) [video]
  "Instrumental Variables with Multiple Instruments" (with Magne Mogstad and Christopher R. Walters)
  Discussant: Guido Imbens (Stanford)
  Panelist: Pedro Carneiro  (UCL)
  Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)

• Friday, April 23, 2021: Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard) [video]
  "Counterfactual Analysis for Structural Dynamic Discrete Choice Models" (with Yuichi Kitamura, Lucas Lima, and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues)
  Discussants: Victor Aguirregabiria (Toronto), Francesca Molinari (Cornell)
  Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

• Friday, May 7, 2021: Anna Mikusheva (MIT) [video]
  "Inference with Many Weak Instruments" (with Sophie Sun)
  Discussant: Mikkel Sølvsten (Wisconsin)
  Panelist: Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford)
  Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)

• Friday, May 21, 2021: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard) [video]
  "Optimal Decision Rules for Weak GMM" (with Anna Mikusheva)
  Discussant: Keisuke Hirano (PSU)
  Panelist: Frank Kleibergen (Amsterdam)
  Moderator: Martin Weidner (Oxford)

• Friday, June 4, 2021: Shu Shen (UC Davis)
  "Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Under Treatment Effect Heterogeneity"  (with Yu-Chin Hsu)
  Discussant:  Yingying Dong (UC Irvine), Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare (UC Santa Barbara)
  Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)

• Friday, June 18, 2021: Tutorial on Synthetic Control Methods [video]
  by Alberto Abadie (MIT)

Autumn 2021

• Friday, September 10, 2021: Tutorial on Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products [video]
  by Aviv Nevo (Penn)

• Friday, September 24, 2021: Xiaohong Chen (Yale) [video]
  "Multi-layer ANN Efficient Estimation in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables (NPIV): A Case Study" (with Jiafeng Chen and Elie Tamer)
  Discussant: Denis Chetverikov (UCLA)
  Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)

• Friday, October 8, 2021: Guido Imbens (Stanford) [video]
  "Clustering Adjustments to Standard Errors" (with Alberto Abadie, Susan Athey, Jeffrey Wooldridge)
  Discussant: Colin Cameron (UC Davis)
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

• Friday, October 22: Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI) [video]
  "On Policy Evaluation with Aggregate Time-Series Shocks" (with Vasily Korovkin)
  Discussant: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
  Moderator: Alberto Abadie (MIT)

• Friday, November 5: Rachael Meager (LSE) [video]
  "An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Metric: When Can Dropping A Little Data Change Conclusions?" (with Tamara Broderick and Ryan Giordano)
  Panelists: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard), Guido Imbens (Stanford), Jesse Shapiro (Brown)
  Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)

• Friday, November 19: Anish Agarwal (MIT) [video]
  "Synthetic Interventions" (with Devavrat Shah and Dennis Shen)
  Discussant: Kaspar Wüthrich (UCSD)
  Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

• Friday, December 3: Francesca Molinari (Cornell) [video]
  "Information Based Inference in Models with Set-Valued Predictions" (with Hiroaki Kaido)
  Discussant: Xiaoxia Shi (Wisconsin)
  Moderator: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

Winter 2022

• Friday, February 4: Whitney Newey (MIT) [video]
  "Automatic Debiased Machine Learning via Neural Nets for Generalized Linear Regression" (with Victor Chernozhukov, Victor Quintas-Martinez, Vasilis Syrgkanis)
  Panelists: Max Farrell (Booth), Guido Imbens (Stanford), Michal Kolesár (Princeton)
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

• Friday, February 18: Alexei Onatskiy (Cambridge) [video]
  "Uniform asymptotics for weak and strong factors"
  Discussant: Markus Pelger (Stanford)
  Moderator: Martin Weidner (Oxford)

• Friday, March 4: Ismael Mourifié (Toronto) [video]
  "Causal Effects in Matching Mechanisms with Strategically Reported Preferences" (with Marinho Berthana, Sebastián Gallegos, and Margaux Luflade)
  Discussant: YingHua He (Rice)
  Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)

• Friday, March 18: Karun Adusumilli (Penn) [video]
  "Risk and optimal policies in bandit experiments"
  Discussant: Stefan Wager (Stanford)
  Moderator: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

• Friday, April 1: Carolina Caetano (Georgia) [video]
  "Identification and Estimation of Average Marginal Treatment Effects with a Bunching Design" (with Gregorio Caetano and Eric Nielsen)
  Discussant: Hugo Jales (Syracuse)
  Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)

Spring 2022

• Friday, April 15: Guido Imbens (Stanford) [video]
  "Fixed Effects in Settings with Clustering" (with Dmitry Arkhangelsky)
  Panelists: Jeff Wooldridge (Michigan State)
  Moderator: Alberto Abadie (MIT)

• Friday, April 29: Interview with Dan McFadden [video]
  Interviewers: Xiaohong Chen (Yale), Aureo de Paula (UCL)
  Moderator: Chunrong Ai (CUHK)

• Friday, May 13: Tutorial on (Auto) DML based on Riesz Representers [video]
  by Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
  Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)

• Friday, May 27: Michael Pollmann (Stanford) [video]
  "Causal Inference for Spatial Treatments"
  Panelists: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (Yale), Fredrik Sävje (Yale)
  Moderator: Alberto Abadie (MIT)

• Friday, June 24: Davide Viviano (UCSD) [video]
  "Policy Design in Experiments with (Unknown) Interference"
  Panelists: Karun Adusumilli (University of Pennsylvania), Toru Kitagawa (Brown)
  Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)

Fall 2022

NOTE: video recordings of all seminars in Fall 2022 and beyond are embedded at the links corresponding to each seminar below

• Friday, September 2: Anna Bykhovskaya (Duke)
  "Cointegration in high-dimensional VARs"
  Panelists: Alexei Onatski (Cambridge), Michael Jansson (Berkeley)
  Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)

• Friday, September 16: Ashesh Rambachan (Microsoft Research)
  "Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data"
  Panelists: Ismael Mourifie (Toronto), Peter Hull (Brown)
  Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)

• Friday, September 30: EunYi Chung (UIUC)
  "Permutation Inference Under Dependence" (with Ji Hyung Lee)
  Panelists: Federico Bugni (Northwestern), Xiaoxia Shi (UW Madison)
  Moderator: Aureo de Paula (UCL)

• Friday, October 14: Charles Manski (Northwestern)
  "Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice: with focus on personalized medicine"
  Panelists: Aleksey Tetenov (University of Geneva), Arthur Sweetman (McMaster)
  Moderators: Guido Imbens (Stanford), Jann Spiess (Stanford)

• Friday, October 28: Kirill Ponomarev (Chicago)
  "Selecting Inequalities for Sharp Identification in Models with Set-Valued Predictions"
  Panelists: Adam Rosen (Duke), Thomas Russell (Carleton)
  Moderator: Stephane Bonhomme (Chicago)

• Friday, November 18: Max Cytrynbaum (Yale)
  "Designing Representative and Balanced Experiments by Local Randomization"
  Panelists: Yuehao Bai (Michigan), Max Tabord-Meehan (Chicago)
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

• Friday, December 2: Lihua Lei (Stanford)
  "Designing Representative and Balanced Experiments by Local Randomization"
  Panelists: Dalia Ghanem (UC Davis), David Hirshberg (Emory)
  Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

Spring 2023

• Friday, February 10: Ulrich Mueller (Princeton)
  "Spatial Unit Roots"
  Panelists: Damian Kozbur, Tim Vogelsang, and Guido Kuersteiner
  Moderator: Barbara Rossi

• Friday, February 24: Ben Deaner (UCL)
  "Controlling for Latent Confounding with Triple Proxies"
  Panelists: Kirill Evdokimov, Daniel Wilhelm, and Kenichi Nagasawa
  Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme

• Friday, March 10: Désiré Kédagni (UNC Chapel Hill)
  "Generalized Difference-in-Differences Models: Robust Bounds"
  Panelists: Petra Todd, Kaspar Wuthrich, Simon Freyaldenhoven
  Moderator: Jann Spiess

• Friday, March 24: Claudia Noack (Oxford)
  "Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs"
  Panelists: Sebastian Calonico, Thomas Lemieux, Stefan Wager
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews

• Friday, April 7: Soonwoo Kwon (Brown)
  "Optimal Shrinkage Estimation of Fixed Effects in Linear Panel Data Models"
  Panelists: Laura Liu, Roger Koenker, Marianne Bitler
  Moderator: Michal Kolesár

• Friday, April 21: Christopher Sims (Princeton)
  "Sharp Econometrics"
  Panelists: Peter Hull, Frank Schorfheide, Christopher Taber
  Moderator: Barbara Rossi

• Friday, May 5: Francesca Molinari (Cornell) and Elie Tamer (Harvard)
  Partial Identification Tutorial I
  Moderator: Jann Spiess

• Friday, May 19: Kate Ho and Eduardo Morales (Princeton)
  Partial Identification Tutorial II
  Moderator: Isaiah Andrews

• Friday, June 2: Liyang Sun (CEMFI)
  "Adapting to Misspecification"
  Panelists: Xu Cheng, Bruce Hansen, Max Kasy
  Moderator: Xavier D'Haultfoeuille