ECON 3103: Seminar in Econometrics

FALL SEMESTER 2018

Date Speaker Title Location
September 6 Kirill Evdokimov (visiting MIT)

"Dealing with Measurement Errors: Practical Estimation and Valid Inference"

Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard
September 13 Isaiah Andrews (Harvard)

"Inference for Linear Conditional Moment Inequalities"

MIT, E52-432

September 20 Mikkel Plagborg-Moller (Princeton)

"Instrumental Variable Identification of Dynamic Variance Decompositions"

Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard
September 27 Hirokai Kaido (Boston University)

"Confidence Intervals for Projections of Partially Identified Parameters"

MIT, E52-432

October 4

Joachim Freyberger (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Inference Under Shape Restrictions" Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard
October 11 Stefan Wager (Stanford University)

"Efficient Policy Learning"

MIT, E52-432

No seminar meeting
October 18

Harvard Harris Lecture on 10/17, 4-5:30pm,
Professor Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley)

October 25 Michal Kolesar (Princeton)

"Sensitivity Analysis Using Approximate Moment Condition Models" (with Tim Armstrong)

Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard

November 1 Kevin Song (Vancouver School of Economics)

"Econometric Analysis of Diffusion over a Large Network"

MIT, E52-432

November 8 Jann Spiess (Microsoft Research)

"Optimal Estimation When Researcher and Social Preferences Are Misaligned"

Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard

No seminar meeting
November 15

MIT departmental seminar

 

No seminar meeting
November 22

Thanksgiving break

 

November 29 Elena Manresa (NYU)

"Artificial Intelligence for Structural Estimation"

MIT, E52-432

 

Course Summary:

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