Applied Economics/Econometrics
Workshop Schedule 2022-2023
Program Directors:
Fall Term 2022
Wednesday, Sept. 21, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Yao Luo (University of Toronto)
"Penalized Sieve Estimation of Structural Models"
Wednesday, Oct. 12, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College)
CANCELLED
Thursday, Oct. 27, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Pierre-Carl Michaud (HEC Montreal)
"Asset Decumulation and Risk Management in Retirement"
(joint with Pascal St-Amour)
Wednesday, Nov. 9, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Brian Krauth (Simon Fraser University)
"Peers as Treatments"
Wednesday, Nov. 16, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Joshua Teitelbaum (Georgetown University)
"Different Context, Different Risk Preferences?"
(joint with Levon Barseghyan and Lin Xu)
Wednesday, Nov. 30, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Yanyou Chen (University of Toronto)
"Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing"
(joint with Yao Luo and Zhe Yuan)
Winter Term 2023
Wednesday, Mar. 8, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Matt Masten (Duke University)
"Assessing Omitted Variable Bias when the Controls are Endogenous"
(joint with Paul Diegert and Alexandre Poirier)
Wednesday, Mar. 15, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Elie Tamer (Harvard University)
"Inference on Games with General Information Structures"
Short-term Visitor - Faculty Seminar
Thursday, Mar. 16, Room 4161 SSC, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm & 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Elie Tamer (Harvard University)
"Quasi Bayesian Approaches to Inference in Partially Identified Models"
Short-term Visitor - Graduate Seminar
Wednesday, Mar. 29, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Kory Kroft (University of Toronto)
"Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry"
(joint with Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, & Bradley Setzler)
Thursday, Mar. 30, McKellar Room UCC, 3:00-4:30 pm
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
"U.S. Healthcare: Problems and Promises"
Distinguished Lecture
Friday, Mar. 31, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
"Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices"
(joint with Jack Porter, Mark Shepard, and Sophie Calder-Wang)
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, Apr. 12, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Adam Rosen (Duke University)
"Estimating Endogenous Effects on Ordinal Outcomes"
(joint with Andrew Chesher and Zahra Siddique)
Wednesday, Apr. 19, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Federico Bugni (Northwestern University)
"Decomposition and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Settings with Delayed Outcomes"
(joint with Ivan A. Canay and Steve McBride)
Wednesday, Apr. 26, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Fernando Saltiel (McGill University)
"Business Cycles and Police Hires"
(joint with Cody Tuttle)
Summer Term 2023
Wednesday, May 3, Room 4161 SSC, 12:00-1:00 pm
Tyler Skura (Western)
"Fertility in the Early Post-College Period: Beliefs and Outcomes"
Student Workshop
Thursday, May 11, Room 4161 SSC, 3:30-5:00 pm
Pamela Giustinelli (Bocconi University)
"The Coherence Side of Rationality: Rules of Thumb, Narrow Bracketing, and Managerial Incoherence in Corporate Forecasts"
(joint with Stenfao Rossi)
Friday, May 12, Room 4161 SSC, 12:00-1:00 pm
Anastasiia Suvorova (Western)
"Parental Investments, Childhood Obesity and Mental Health"
Student Workshop
Wednesday, May 17, Room 4161 SSC, 12:00-1:00 pm
Brice Gueyap Kounga (Western)
"Nonparametric Regression with Dyadic Data"
Student Workshop
Wednesday, May 24, Room 4161 SSC, 12:00-1:00 pm
Hans Martinez Torres (Western)
"Tax Evasion and Productivity"
Student Workshop
Thursday, May 25, Room 4161 SSC, 12:00-1:00 pm
Kunyuan Zhang (Western)
"Measuring Systemic Risk"
Student Workshop
Friday, May 26, Room 4161 SSC, 12:00-1:00 pm
Fei Xue (Western)
"Options Pricing During the Financial Crisis"
Student Workshop
Wednesday, May 31, Room 4161 SSC, 12:00-1:00 pm
Evan Sauve (Western)
"The Impact of Implementing Alternative Policies with the Canada Student Financial Assistance Program"
Student Workshop
