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)
  "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)
  "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)
  "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
  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)
  "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)
  "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
  Panelists: Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford), Bryan Graham (Berkeley)
  Moderator: Guido Imbens (Stanford)
  

Autumn 2020

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

• Friday, September 18, 2020: Max Farrell (Chicago Booth)
  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)
  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)
  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)
  Identification and Inference under Narrative Restrictions (with Toru Kitagawa and Matthew Read)
  Discussant: José Luis Montiel Olea (Columbia)

• Friday, November 13, 2020: Jiaying Gu (Toronto)