News and Workshops

Econometrics Workshop

Fall 2006

See also Applied Dynamics Workshop

This workshop meets every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in Ro 301.
If you have any questions, please contact Alison Baulos and/or Susanne Schennach.
Archives (Winter 2006), Archives (Spring 2006)

October 4
Amit Kumar Gandi, Chicago GSB, "Identifying Risk Preferences:  Vertical Differentiation at the Racetrack."

October 11
Marine Carrasco, "Instrumental Variables Estimators based on Principal Components."

October 18
Daniel Sturm, London School of Economics, "The Costs of Remoteness:  Evidence from German Division and Reunification."

October 25
Rob Townsend, University of Chicago, "Firm Dynamics and Finance:  Distinguishing Information Regimes."  Joint with Alexander Karaivanov, Simon Fraser University.

November 1
Muriel Niederle, Stanford, "Do Women Shy Away From Competition?  Do Men Compete Too Much?"

November 9 (Thursday 1:20-2:50 HPC03 in GSB)***Note day, time, and room changes
Eric Renault, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Disentangling the Effects of Heterogeneous Beliefs and Preferences on Asset Prices." 
Joint with GSB

 November 16 (Thursday 1:20-2:50 HPCO3 in GSB)***Note day, time, and room changes
Jinyong Hahn, UCLA, "Adaptive Design of Multiple Stage Experiments Using the Propensity Score."  (no paper)
Joint with GSB

November 22
No workshop due to Thanksgiving holiday

November 29
Marc Henry, Columbia, "Dilation Bootstrap:  A methodolgy for constructing confidence regions with partially identified models."  Additional paper:  "Incomplete Models Inference."
Joint with GSB

December 6
Dan Ackerberg, UCLA, "Estimating Price Elasticities in Differentiated Product Demand Models with Endogenous Characteristics"
Joint with GSB

Economics Workshops and Seminars:
500 Economic Theory
512 Econometrics
516 Applied Dynamic Economics
530 Money & Banking
590 Applications of Economics
Rational Choice
592 Economics Policy and Public Finance