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)
  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, paper)
  Matthew Thirkettle (Rice): "Identification and Estimation of Network Statistics with Missing Link Data" (paper)
  Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

• Friday, January 29, 2021: Peter Hull (Chicago)
  "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)