Conferences

Speakers confirmed

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The Center for Econometrics at Northwestern University will sponsor a conference on Inverse Problems in Econometrics on Friday-Saturday, October 2-3 2015. The conference will consist of approximately 15 presentations of 45 minutes each. Some of the topics that will be included are:

  1. Identification, estimation, and testing of semi- and nonparametric instrumental variables models.
  2. Identification, estimation, and testing of semi- and nonparametric models with random coefficients.
  3. Semi- and nonparametric errors-in-variables models
  4. The role of shape restrictions in identification and estimation.

Speakers

  • Xiaohong Chen (Yale)
  • Jean-Pierre Florens (TSE)
  • Joachim Freyberger (UW-Madison)
  • Eric Gautier (TSE)
  • Stefan Hoderlein (Boston College)
  • Yuichi Kitamura (Yale)
  • Sokbae Lee (Seoul National)
  • Jean-Michel Loubes (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse)
  • Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University)
  • Whitney Newey (MIT)
  • Susanne Schennach (Brown)
  • Vladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute and Humboldt University)
  • Alex Torgovitsky (Northwestern)
  • Ingrid Van Keilegom (Université catholique de Louvain)

Workshop in Econometrics: Fall 2014

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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:

  1. Sept. 23: Dennis Kristensen
  2. Sept. 30: Chuan Goh
  3. Oct. 7: Tim Christensen
  4. Oct. 14: Alex Poirier
  5. Oct. 21: Shruti Sinha
  6. Oct. 28: Ismael Mourifie
  7. Nov. 4: Debopam Bhattacharya
  8. Nov. 11: Yuichi Kitamura
  9. Nov. 18: Max Farrell
  10. Nov. 25: Cosma Shalizi
  11. Dec. 2: Alberto Abadie
  12. Dec. 9: Carolina Caetano