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Econometrics Seminar: Fall 2023

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This upcoming fall quarter, we have a great lineup of speakers for our econometrics workshop! The workshop meets weekly on Tuesdays at 4:00pm in KGH 1410, unless otherwise indicated. For additional details, including seminar papers, please see the schedule here.

Speakers this quarter

Federico Bugni and Ivan Canay Awarded the 2022 Arnold Zellner Award

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Federico Bugni and Ivan Canay have been awarded the 2022 Arnold Zellner Award for the paper “Testing Continuity of a Density via g-order statistics in the Regression Discontinuity Design”, published in the Journal of Econometrics in 2021. The Zellner Award recognizes the best theoretical paper published by the Journal of Econometrics in a given year, following a selection process where associate editors and co-editors submit a list of nominations, and then an award committee comprised of fellows of the Journal of Econometrics selects the winner. The award was announced at the 50th Anniversary reception of the journal at the 2023 ASSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Econometrics Seminar: Spring 2022

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We are happy to announce that this spring we will have another excellent lineup of speakers for our weekly econometrics workshop.  The workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 PM in KGH 1410. For additional details see the seminar schedule here.

The speakers this quarter are the following:

  • Tuesday, Mar 8: Amos Golan (American University)
  • Tuesday, Mar 29: Clement de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po)
  • Tuesday, Apr 5: NO SPEAKER
  • Tuesday, Apr 12: NO SPEAKER
  • Tuesday, Apr 19: Brant Callaway (University of Georgia)
  • Tuesday, Apr 26: Guillaume Pouliot (University of Chicago)
  • Tuesday, May 3: Arie Beresteanu (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Tuesday, May 10: Ismael Mourifie (University of Toronto)
  • Tuesday, May 17: Jonathan Roth (Brown University)
  • Tuesday, May 24: Toru Kitagawa (University College London/Brown University)
  • Tuesday, May 31: Pedro Sant’Anna (Microsoft)

Econometrics Seminar: Fall 2021

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We are happy to announce that this fall we have another excellent lineup of speakers for our weekly econometrics workshop.  The workshop meets every Tuesday at 3:30 PM in KGH 1410. For additional details see the seminar schedule here.

The speakers this quarter are the following:

  • September 28: Chuck Manski (Northwestern University)
  • October 5: Francesca Molinari (Cornell University)
  • October 12: Annie Liang (Northwestern University)
  • October 19: Kei Hirano (Pennsylvania State University)
  • October 26: Harold Chiang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • November 9: Bryan Graham (University of California, Berkeley)
  • November 16: Rafaella Giacomini (University College London)
  • November 30: Xiaoxia Shi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Federico Bugni joins the Center for Econometrics

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The Center for Econometrics is thrilled to welcome Federico Bugni, who is joining the Department of Economics at Northwestern University in the Fall 2021. Bugni received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2008 and has been at Duke University since then.

Bugni has worked on a wide variety of topics in econometrics, with an emphasis on statistical inference and identification in micro-econometrics. He is known for having tackled challenging open problems in a set of distinct areas, including inference in randomized controlled experiments, randomization tests, estimation and testing in dynamic discrete choice games, high dimensional models, and functional data, among others. He is best known for his contributions to the literature on inference in partially identified models. Bugni is currently an Associate Editor of Quantitative Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and The Econometrics Journal.

Econometrics Seminar: Spring 2021

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We are happy to announce that this coming spring we have another excellent lineup of speakers for our weekly, and once again virtual, econometrics workshop.  The workshop meets virtually via Zoom every Tuesday at 3:30pm. For additional details see the seminar schedule here.

The speakers this quarter are the following:

  1. April 13: Eric Auerbach
  2. April 20: Vishal Kamat
  3. April 27: Elena Manresa
  4. May 4: Stefan Wager
  5. May 11: Silvia Goncalves
  6. May 18: Yuehao Bai
  7. June 1: Theirry Magnac