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 Kleinbergen (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: Vira Semenova (Berkeley) [video]
"Better Lee Bounds"
Discussant: Jörg Stoye (Cornell)
Panelist: Alexandre Poirier (Georgetown)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)Friday, April 9: 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: Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard)
"Partial Identification of Dynamic Models and Counterfactuals" (with Yuichi Kitamura and Eduardo Souza-Rorigues)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)