This year we have one student working in the field of Econometrics on the academic job market. Shruti Sinha works on identification and estimation of one to one matching models. You can find here job market paper here. Additional information can be found on her website: Shruti Sinha
The students of the Center for Econometrics hold a weekly reading group each quarter where students and faculty meet to present and discuss books and papers in the field. This quarter we are covering a variety of different papers. The schedule is as follows.
| 10/22/2014 | Yi Sun |
| 10/29/2014 | Sergey Gitlin |
| 11/5/2014 | Vishal Kamat |
| 11/12/2014 | Max Tabord-Meehan |
| 11/19/2014 | Jordan Norris |
| 11/26/2014 | Yuta Toyama |
| 12/3/2014 | Paul Mohnen |
| 12/10/2014 | Eric Mbakop |
For additional questions about the reading group, contact Vishal Kamat.
Dennis Kristensen will be visiting the center for econometrics from September 22, 2014 to September 26, 2014. He received his Ph.D. in economics from London School of Economics, and is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) at University College London. Prof. Kristensen’s research focuses on theoretical and applied econometrics, and quantitative finance.
Prof. Kristensen will be giving a seminar as part of the Econometrics Workshop on September 23. The title of his talk is “CCP and the estimation of non-separable dynamic discrete choices”. He will be in AH 3222 during his visit.
We are happy to announce that this coming fall we have an excellent lineup of speakers for our weekly econometrics workshop. The workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30PM in Jacobs 3245. The participants are the following:
Kirill Evdokimov will be visiting the Center for Econometrics from May 12, 2014 to May 16, 2014. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Prof. Evdokimov’s research focuses on theoretical econometrics.
Prof. Evdokimov will be giving a seminar as part of the Econometrics Workshop on Tuesday May 13, 3:30PM. The title of his talk is “Diagnostics for Exclusion Restrictions in Instrumental Variables Estimation”. He will be in AH 3222 during his visit.
Simon Lee will be visiting the center for econometrics from April 14, 2014 to April 18, 2014. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa, and is currently an Associate Professor at Seoul National University. Prof. Lee’s research focuses on theoretical and applied econometrics. 
Prof. Lee will be giving a seminar as part of the Econometrics Workshop on April 15. The title of his talk is “Testing for a General Class of Functional Inequalities”. He will be in AH 3222 during his visit.
