ECON 2162A: Research in Econometrics

The Econometrics lunch seminar meets in Littauer Center M-15, North Yard, on Mondays 12:00-1:00pm onward from Feb. 12.  [past FALL SEMESTER 2017 Schedule]

SPRING SEMESTER 2018 Schedule

Date Speaker Title
January 29 No lunch meeting
February 5

Mitsuru Igami (Yale & MIT)

"Artificial Intelligence as Structural Estimation: Economic Interpretations of Deep Blue, Bonanza, and AlphaGo"
February 12 No meeting
February 19 No meeting - Presidents' Day Holiday
February 26 No meeting
March 5 Pierre Jacob (Harvard Statistics) "Unbiased Estimation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Couplings"
March 12 No meeting - Spring Break
March 19 No meeting
March 26 No meeting
April 2 No meeting
April 4, lecture @10:00-11:00am in Littauer Hansen-Mason Room, 3rd Fl.

Visiting Day for prospective students

Jann Spiess (Harvard)

"Bias Reduction in Instrumental Variable Estimation through First-Stage Shrinkage"
April 9

No meeting

April 16

Ruiqing (Rachel) Cao (Harvard)

"Product Hunt and VC Investing"
April 23

Max Kasy (Harvard)

"Approximate Cross-Validation and Dynamic Experiments for Policy Choice"

 

 

Course Summary:

Date Details Due