Gautam Tripathi, University of Connecticut, "Efficiency bounds for estimating linear functionals of nonparametric regression models with endogenous regressors", joint work with T. Severini.

Justin Tobias, Iowa State University,"The Wages of BMI: Bayesian Analysis of a Skewed Treatment-Response Model with Nonparametric Endogeneity".

Sergio Firpo,PUC-Rio, Brazil, "Unconditional Quantile Regressions".

Nandita Gawade, Princeton University, "Measurement Error in Discrete Explanatory Variables: Implications of Conditional Independence."

James L. Powell, U.C. Berkeley, "Simple Estimators for Semiparametric Multinomial Choice."

Barbara Rossi, Duke University, "Which Structural Parameters are 'Structural'? Indentifying the Sources of Instabilities in Structural Models", joint with A. Inoue.

Stefan Hoderlein, University of Mannheim, "Preference Heterogeneity - Implications for Nonparametric Econometrics".

Yuichi Kitamura, Yale University, "Nonparametric Estimation in Random Coefficients Binary Choice Models", joint with Eric Gautier.

11/27/07

CANCELLED
11/26/07

John Rust, University of Maryland, "Models of Bargaining and Price Determination of Residential Real Estate, with and without Real Estate Agents", joint with Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania and Francois Ortalo-Magne, University of Wisconsin.

Mark Steel, University of Warwick, UK, "On the Effect of Prior Assumptions in Bayesian Model Averaging with Applications to Growth Regression", joint work with Eduardo Ley, Worldbank.

Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto, "Another Look at the Identification of Dynamic Discrete Decision Processes, with an Application to Retirement Behavior".

Ivana Komunjer, University of California, San Diego, "Semiparametric Efficient Estimation in Structural Time Series Cross Section Models", joint with G. Ragusa.