Seminars: Spring 2021

Friday, June 18, 2021: Tutorial on Synthetic Control Methods

Alberto Abadie (MIT): Tutorial on Synthetic Control Methods

Friday, June 4, 2021: Shu Shen (UC Davis)

"Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Under Treatment Effect Heterogeneity" (paper, with Yu-Chin Hsu)
Discussant: Yingying Dong (UC Irvine), Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare (UC Santa Barbara)
Moderator: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)

Friday, May 21, 2021: Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

"Optimal Decision Rules for Weak GMM" (paper, with Anna Mikusheva)
Discussant: Keisuke Hirano (PSU)
Panelist: Frank Kleibergen (Amsterdam)
Moderator: Martin Weidner (Oxford)

Friday, May 7, 2021: Anna Mikusheva (MIT)

"Inference with Many Weak Instruments" (paper, with Sophie Sun)
Discussant: Mikkel Sølvsten (Wisconsin)
Panelist: Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford)
Moderator: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)

Friday, April 23, 2021: Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard)

"Counterfactual Analysis for Structural Dynamic Discrete Choice Models" (paper, appendix; with Yuichi Kitamura, Lucas Lima and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues)
Discussants: Victor Aguirregabiria (Toronto), Francesca Molinari (Cornell)
Moderator: Michal Kolesár (Princeton)

Friday, April 9, 2021: Alex Torgovitsky (Chicago)

"Instrumental Variables with Multiple Instruments" (paper 1, paper 2, with Magne Mogstad and Christopher R. Walters)
Discussant: Guido Imbens (Stanford)
Panelist: Pedro Carneiro (UCL)
Moderator: Jann Spiess (Stanford)