Econometric Research Program


Oskar Morgenstern Memorial Seminar Fall 2011
Tuesdays: 2:40 - 4:00pm 200 Fisher Hall Speaker's Office: B-14

September 13, 2011	First week of Class
September 20, 2011	Eric Gautier, ENSAE, "Estimating the Distribution of Treatment Effects", (preliminary paper - work in progress).
September 27, 2011	Cancelled
October 4, 2011	Shakeeb Khan, Duke, "Information Structure and Statistical Information in Discrete Response Models"
October 11, 2011	Herman van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, "A Predictive Likelihood Approach to Possible Endogeneity Using IV Models with Non-Normal Distributions Applied to US Income-Education Data". Paper 1, paper 2, paper 3
October 18, 2011	Victor Chernozhukov, MIT. "Sparse Models and Methods for Optimal Instruments with an Application to Eminent Domain"
Octboer 27, 2011	Department Wide Seminar
November 1, 2011	Fall Recess
November 8, 2011	Stefan Hoderlein, Boston College, "Semiparametric Estimation of Random Coefficients in Structural Economic Models".
November 15, 2011	Martin Weidner, University College London, "Individual and Time Effects in Nonlinear Panel Data Models with Large N, T", joint with Iván Fernández-Val.
November 22, 2011	Alex Torgovitsky, Northwestern, "Identification of Nonseparable Models with General Instruments".
November 29, 2011	Stephane Bohnomme, CEMFI "Discrete Heterogeneity Patterns in Panel Data", joint with Elena Manresa, CEMFI.
December 6, 2011	Jinyong Hahn, U of California, "Los Angeles The Asymptotic Variance of Semi-parametric Estimators with Generated Regressors"
December 13, 2011	Brendan Beare, U of California, San Diego, "An empirical test of pricing kernel monotonicity".