ECON 3163HFA: The Econometrics Workshop
SPRING SEMESTER 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location |
| Thursday, February 8 | Yoosoon Chang (Indiana University) | Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard | |
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February 15 |
Domenico Giannone (New York Fed & Harvard) |
"Economic Predictions with Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity" (with Michele Lenza, and Giorgio E. Primiceri) |
MIT, E52-432 |
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February 22 |
Whitney Newey (MIT) |
"Cross-Fitting and Fast Remainder Rates for Semiparametric Estimation" |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
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March 1 |
Lester Mackey (Stanford University & Microsoft) |
MIT, E52-432 |
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Wednesday, |
Harvard Harris Lecture Helene Rey (LBS) |
Science Center Hall C |
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| March 8 |
Eric Gautier (Toulouse School of Economics) |
"Adaptive Estimation in the Linear Random Coefficients Model When Regressors Have Limited Variation" |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
| March 15 |
No meeting - Harvard Spring Break |
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March 22 |
Yuichi Kitamura (Yale University) |
"Revealed Price Preference: Theory and Empirical Analysis" (joint w/Rahul Deb, John Quah, Joerg Stove) |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
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March 29 |
No meeting - MIT Spring Break | ||
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April 5 |
David Jaeger (CUNY Graduate Center & NBER) |
"Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing? A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions" | MIT, E52-432 |
| April 12 |
Mikkel Soelvsten (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
"Leave-out Estimation of Variance Components" |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
| April 19 |
Michael Wolf (University of Zurich) |
"Direct Nonlinear Shrinkage Estimation of Large-Dimensional Covariance Matrices" Slides: MainTalk.pdf; BonusTalk.pdf |
MIT, E52-432 |
| April 26 |
Stephane Bonhomme (University of Chicago) |
"Minimizing Sensitivity to Model Misspecification" | Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
Course Summary:
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