Seminars: Autumn 2021

Friday, December 3: Francesca Molinari (Cornell)

"Information Based Inference in Models with Set-Valued Predictions" (with Hiroaki Kaido)
Discussant: Xiaoxia Shi (Wisconsin)
Moderator: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

2021-12-03-Molinari.pdf

Friday, November 19: Anish Agarwal (MIT)

"Synthetic Interventions" (with Devavrat Shah and Dennis Shen)
Discussant: Kaspar Wüthrich (UCSD)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

2021-11-19-Agarwal.pdf

Friday, November 5: Rachael Meager (LSE)

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

2021-11-05-Meager.pdf

Friday, October 22: Dmitry Arkhangelsky (CEMFI)

"On Policy Evaluation with Aggregate Time-Series Shocks" (with Vasily Korovkin)
Discussant: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
Moderator: Alberto Abadie (MIT)

2021-10-22-Arkhangelsky.pdf

Friday, October 8, 2021: Guido Imbens (Stanford)

"Clustering Adjustments to Standard Errors" (with Alberto Abadie, Susan Athey, Jeffrey Wooldridge)
Discussant: Colin Cameron (UC Davis)
Moderator: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

2021-10-08-Imbens.pdf
2021-10-08-Cameron.pdf

Friday, September 24, 2021: Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

"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)

2021-09-24-Chen.pdf

Friday, September 10, 2021: Tutorial on Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products

Aviv Nevo (Penn): Tutorial on Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products (reading list and related paper)

2021-09-10-Nevo.pdf