| Econometrics ................................................................................................................................ |
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| Term: Fall 2019-2020 |
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Location: Meets alternately each week at Harvard and MIT. @Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard and @MIT, E52-432 |
| Meeting Time: Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 PM |
| Description: Outside speakers and faculty present current research topics in theory and applications of econometrics. |
| Faculty Coordinators: Isaiah Andrews, Max Kasy, Neil Shephard, James Stock, Elie Tamer. |
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| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | LOCATION |
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| September 5 | Timothy Christensen (New York University) |
"Counterfactual Sensitivity and Robustness" (with Benjamin Connault) |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
| September 12 | Pragya Sur (Harvard University, Statistics) |
"A Modern Maximum-Likelihood Theory for High-Dimensional Logistic Regression" |
MIT, E52-432 |
| September 19 | Alexey Onatskiy (University of Cambridge) |
"Spurious Factor Analysis" |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
| September 26 | Tong Li (Vanderbilt University) |
"Quantile Treatment Effects with Two-Sided Measurement Error" |
MIT, E52-432 |
| October 3 | Florian Gunsilius (Brown University) |
"Bounds in Continuous Instrumental Variable Models" |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
| October 10 | Tatiana Komarova (London School of Economics) |
"Non-lattice structures in multidimensional ordered response models" (with W. Matcham) |
MIT, E52-432 |
| October 17 |
(Harvard Harris Lecture on Weds 10/16, 4-5:30pm) |
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) |
Science Center Lecture Hall A |
| October 24 | Vira Semenova (Harvard University) |
"Machine Learning for Dynamic Discrete Choice" (with V. Chernozhukov and W. Newey) |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
| October 31 | Barbara Rossi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE) |
"Identifying Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks: A New Approach" (with A. Inoue) |
MIT, E52-432 |
| November 7 | Yinchu Zhu (University of Oregon) |
"How Well Can We Learn Large Factor Models without Assuming Strong Factors?" |
Harvard, Littauer M-15, North Yard |
| November 14 | MIT Economics Department Seminar (no meeting) | ||
| November 21 | Ariel Pakes (Harvard University) |
"Fixed Effects, State Dependence, and Health Insurance Choice" (with Sophie Calder Wang, Jack Porter, Mark Shepard) |
MIT, E52-432 |
| November 28 | Thanksgiving (no meeting) |