Econometric Research Program


Oskar Morgenstern Memorial Seminar Spring 2009
Tuesdays: 2:40 - 4:10pm 200 Fisher Hall

February 10, 2009	Guido Imbens, Harvard, "Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching: A Nonparametric Analysis'', coauthored with Bryan Graham (UC Berkeley) and Geert Ridder (USC).
February 17, 2009	no seminar
February 24, 2009	Anna Mikusheva, MIT, "Robust Confidence Sets in the Presence of Weak Instruments".
March 3, 2009	Blaise Melly, Brown, "Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design", work in progress.
March 10, 2009	Ariel Pakes, Harvard, "Theory and Empirical Work on empirical Work on Imperfectly Competitive Markets", joint with Industrial Organization.
March 17, 2009	Spring Recess Week
March 24, 2009	Department Wide Seminar Week
March 31, 2009	Dan Ackerberg, UCLA, "Estimating Price Elasticities in Differentiated Product Demand Models with Endogenous Characteristics", joint with Industrial Organization.
April 7, 2009	Peter Rossi, Chicago, GSB, "A Semi-Parametric Bayesian Approach to the Instrumental Variable Problem" and "Plausibly Exogenous"
April 14, 2009	Christian Hansen, Chicago GSB, "Fixed-b Asymptotics for Spatially Dependent Robust Nonparametric Covariance Matrix EstimatorsTopic".
April 21, 2009	Edith Madsen, Copenhagen, (visiting Princeton), "GMM-Based Inference in the AR(1) Panel Data Model for Parameter Values Where Local Identification Fails Topic".
April 28, 2009	Jushan Bai, Columbia, "Small T Dynamic Panel Data Models with Interactive EffectsTopic". (paper is a work in progress)