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Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	Title
February 20	Laurens Cherchye, University of Leuven	Where Did it Go Wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi
February 24 Friday 11:30a.m.	Kaspar Wüthrich, University of California-San Diego	New Algorithms for Estimating Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Models
February 27	Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University	Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
April 3	Tatiana Komarova, London School of Economics	A Simple Test for Monotonicity and Monotonicity-Related Properties
April 10	Arnaud Maurel, Duke University	Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap
May 1	Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Penn State	Inference in Ordered Response Games with Complete Information

2017

2016

Spring 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
April 8, Friday 11:30 a.m.	Koen Jochmans, Sciences Po	Modfied-Likelihood Estimation of the β-Model
April 11	Ted Juhl, University of Kansas	Testing for Slope Heterogeneity Bias in Panel Data Models
April 15, Friday 11:30 a.m.	Jilin Wu, Shandong University (visiting BC)
April 22, Friday 11:30 a.m.	Stéphane Bonhomme University of Chicago	Approximate Clustering
April 25	Esfandiar Maasoumi Emory University	The Gender Gap Between Earnings Distributions
April 29, Friday 11:30 a.m.	Demian Pouzo University of CA Berkeley	Misspecified Bayesian Markov Decision Processes
May 2	Toru Kitagawa University College London	Who Should be Treated? Empirical Welfare Maximization Methods for Treatment Choice
May 9, 11:30 a.m. Room 330	Abi Adams Yale University
May 9	Karim Chalak University of Virginia	Differential Measurement Error in Multiple Linear Equations with Application to Corporate Investment and Saving
May 25, Wed., 11:30 a.m.	Elena Manresa Quirante, MIT	Estimating the Structure of Social Interactions Using Panel Data

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
8/29 Noon	Franco Peracchi, Georgetown University	Growing up in Wartime: Evidence From The Era of Two World Wars
9/12	Martin Weidner, University College London	Fixed-Effect Regressions on Network Data
9/19	Dan Ben-Moshe, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Identification and Estimation of Coefficients in Dependent Factor Models
9/23 Friday 11:30 a.m.	Mingli Chen, Warwick University	Quantile Graphical Models: Prediction and Conditional Independence With Applications to Financial Risk Management
9/26	Simon Lee, Columbia University	Best Subset Binary Prediction
10/3	Xun Tang, Rice University	Bargaining with Optimism: Identifcation and Estimation of a Model of Medical Malpractice Litigation
10/14 Friday 11:30 a.m	Lars Nesheim, UCL
10/17	Michal Kolesár, Princeton University
10/24	Andrew Patton, Duke University	Evaluating and Comparing Possibly Misspecified Forecasts
10/28 Friday 11:30 a.m.	Joon Park, Indiana University	Analysis of Distributional Dynamics for Repeated Cross-Sectional and Intra-Period Observations
11/7	Jonathan Wright, Johns Hopkins University	Efficient Inference in Non-Gaussian Structural VARs
11/21	Aureo de Paula, University College London	Identifying and Estimating Social Connections from Outcome Data
11/28	Joachim Freyberger, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Inference Under Shape Restrictions

2015

Spring 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
March 9	Anna Mikusheva, MIT	"Conditional Inference with a Functional Nuisance Parameter"
March 12	Christoph Breunig, University of Berlin	"Testing Missing at Random using Instrumental Variables"
March 16	Arthur Lewbel, Boston College	"The Identification Zoo"
March 23	Jerry Hausman, MIT	"Errors in the Dependent Variable of Quantile Regression Models"
March 27, 12-1pm	Yuya Sasaki, Johns Hopkins	"Earnings Dynamics with Heteroskedastic Permanent Shocks"
March 30	Xavier d'Haultfoueille, ENSAE	"Differences in differences with fuzzy groups"
April 6	Keisuke Hirano, University of Arizona	"Forecasting with Model Uncertainty: Representations and Risk Reduction"
April 10 (Friday, 2-3), Maloney 313	Alfred Galichon, MIT	"Vector Quantile Regression"
April 13	Xi Qu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University	"2SIV Estimation of A Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Model with Endogenous Spatial Weight Matrices"
May 11	Anna Simoni, CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research)	"Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Moment Estimation"

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept. 11	Alexander Meister, University of Rostock	Statistical Inference for Nonparametric GARCH Models
Sept. 14	Ian Dew-Becker, Northwestern University	How Risky is Consumption in the Long-run? Benchmark Estimates From a Robust Estimator
Sept. 21	Rong Chen, Rutgers University	Convolutional Autoregressive Models for Functional Time Series
Sept. 28	Juan Carlos Escanciano, Indiana University	Identification and Information in Semiparametric Models
Oct. 5	Isaiah Andrews, Harvard University	Unbiased Instrumental Variables Estimation Under Known First-Stage Sign
Oct. 19	Greg Duffee, Johns Hopkins University	Expected Inflation and Other Determinants of Treasury Yields
Oct. 26	Giovanni Cerullli, CNR-IRCrES	Econometric Evaluation of Socio-Economic Programs Theory and Applications
Nov. 2	Antonio Galvao, University of Iowa	Measurement Errors in Quantile Regression Models
Nov. 9	Minchul Shin, University of Pennsylvania	Bayesian GMM
Nov. 16	John Chao, University of Maryland	Pretest Based Inference for Panel Autoregression
Nov. 30	Martin Spindler, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Dec. 4	Green Line Econometrics Conference
Dec. 7	Seminar Cancelled

2014

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept. 19 (Friday, 3:00-4:30, Maloney 313)	Donald Andrews, Yale University	"Identification- and Singularity-Robust Inference for Moment Condition Models"
Sept. 26 (Friday, 11:30-12:30, Maloney 313)	Zaichao Du, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China	"Simple Automatic Portmanteau Tests for Conditional Dynamic Models"
Sept. 29	Tao Yang, Boston College	"Asymptotic Trimming and Rate Adaptive Inference for Endogenous Selection Estimates"
Oct. 20	Juan Carlos Escanciano, Indiana University	"Identifying Marginal Effects with Binary Instruments or by Regression Discontinuity"
Oct. 27	Shakeeb Khan, Duke University	"On Uniform Inference in Nonlinear Models with Endogeneity"
Dec. 2 (Tuesday, 12:00-1:30, Maloney 313)	Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto	TBD

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