Econometrics Lunch Seminars

Econometrics Lunch Seminars

Day: Friday
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. EDT



The Econometrics Seminar is organized by Yoonseok Lee and Yulong Wang. Topics will include theoretical and applied econometrics, with speakers from SU and other universities. Speakers will discuss their own work or important recent contributions to econometrics. .

To be added to the email list for this seminar, or have any questions about attendance please email economics@syr.edu.

To present a paper, please contact Yoonseok Lee (ylee41@maxwell.syr.edu) or Yulong Wang (ywang402@maxwell.syr.edu)



Spring 2024

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

March 22

Daniel Millimet

(Southern Methodist University)

(Don't) Walk This Way: The Econometrics of Crosswalks

March 29

Yuehao Bai

(University of Southern California)

On the Efficiency of Finely Stratified Experiments

April 5

Carol Caetano

(University of Georgia)

Identification and Estimation of Average Marginal Treatment Effects with a Bunching Design 

April 19

Vitor Possebom

(São Paulo School of Economics)

Was Javert Right To Be Suspicious? Unpacking Treatment Effect Heterogeneity of Alternative Sentences On Time-To-Recidivism in Brazil

April 26 - 28

Camp Econometrics XVII





Fall 2023

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

October 13

Chris Parmeter
(University of Miami)

"Local Eviction Moratoria and the Spread of Covid-19"

October 20

Silvia Sarpietro

(University of Bologna)

TBA

November 10

Yichi Zhang and Junjie Shu
(Syracuse University)

TBA



Spring 2023

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

March 29

Shu Shen
(UC Davis)

"Panel IV with Dynamic Treatment Effect"

April 14

Mark Watson

(Princeton)

"Spatial Unit Roots"

April 21

Camp Econometrics



Fall 2022

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

September 2

Zhe He

(Syracuse University)

"Partial Identification of the Marginal Treatment Effect with an Invalid Discrete Instrument"

September 23

Alejandro Sanchez
(Emory)

"Robust Inference for the Treatment Effect Variance, in Experiments Using Machine Learning"

October 7

Alexander Chudik
(Dallas Fed)

"Estimating Long-Run Relationships in Dynamic Heterogeneous Panels: Pooled Bewley and System PMG Estimators"

October 14

Zhuan Pei

(Cornell)

"Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs"

October 21

Alfred Galichon
(NYU, Virtual)

"Estimating Matching Models: From Theory to Empirics"

November 4

Toru Kitagawa
(Brown)

TBA

November 11

Juan Pantano
(Arizona)

TBA


Spring 2022



Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

March 11

Jonathan Hill

(North Carolina)

April 1

Federico Bugni

(Duke)

"Testing Homogeneity in Dynamic Discrete Games in Finite Samples"

April 8



Econometrics Camp

April 22

Arie Beresteanu

(Pittsburgh)

"Identification of Incomplete Preferences"

Fall 2021

 Date

Speaker and Institution 

 Title

 Date

Speaker and Institution 

 Title

October 1

 Ji Hyung Lee

(UIUC)

Predictive Quantile Regression with Mixed Roots and Increasing Dimensions



October 8

 Kengo Kato

(Cornell)





Inference for high-dimensional exchangeable arrays





November 12

Zhe He

(Syracuse University)

 TBA

 November 19

Fan Yang

(Syracuse University)

 TBA



Spring 2021

Spring 2021

 Date

Speaker and Institution 

 Title

 Date

Speaker and Institution 

 Title

 March 26

 Desire Kedagni

(Iowa State)

"Marginal Treatment Effects with Misclassified Treatment (joint with Santiago Acerenza and Kyunghoon Ban)"

April 10 - 11 

 NY Camp Econometrics

(Virtual)

 TBD

 April 23

Xu Cheng

(U Penn) 

 TBD

 April 30

Xiaoxia Shi 

(Wisconsin)

 TBD



Fall 2020

Fall 2020

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

 October 2



Wayne Gao

(University of Pennsylvania)

"Two-Stage Maximum Score Estimator"   

 October 16

Harold Chiang

(UW Madison)

"Many Average Partial Effects: with an Application to Text Regression"

 October 23 

Guanyu Liu

(Syracuse)

"Estimation and Inference of Average Treatment Effects with Model Averaging"

 October 30

Wenzhen Lin (Syracuse)

and Zhe He (Syracuse) 

Wenzhen Lin: "New tests of the Multinomial and Nested Logit Models with an Application to Residential Mortgage Terminations" and Zhe He: "Bounding Marginal Treatment Effects with an Imperfect Instrument"

 November 13

Yuya Sasaki

(Vanderbilt) 

                                                              "Unconditional Quantile Regression with High Dimensional Data"













Fall 2019

Fall 2019

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

 September 6

Sudipta Sarangi

(Virginia Tech)

September 20

Amos Golan

(American University)



"Info-Metrics for Modeling and Inference"



 October 11

 Christoph Breunig

(Emory University)

 "Simple, Adaptive, Rate-Optimal Testing in Instrumental Variables Models"

October 25 

Zhongjun Qu

(Boston University)



"Sieve Estimation of Option-Implied State Price Density"

November 1

Jun Cai

(Syracuse University)

"Panel Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Conditional Heteroskedastic Frontiers"













Spring 2019

Spring 2019

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

 March 1

(Rutgers University) 

 March 22

Dukpa Kim

(Korea University; visiting Boston University) 

(co-authored with Chirok Han)

 March 29

 Jun Cai

(Syracuse University)

 "Density Deconvolution with Laplace Errors and Unknown Variance"

 April 5

(Harvard University)

"Adaptive experiments for policy choice"

 April 12 - April 14

NY Camp Econometrics 



 April 26

(Boston University) 

Fall 2018

Fall 2018

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

 September 21

(Princeton University)

 September 28

(Vanderbilt University)

 November 2

 Dahae Choo, Guanyu Liu & Yi Yang

(Syracuse University)

Yi Yang: “Mode of Technical Inefficiency in Parametric Stochastic Frontier Model”

Dahae Choo: “The cash transfer and fertility decision in South Korea”

Guanyu Liu: "Evaluating the economic impact of conflict: A counterfactual analysis of Ukraine"

November 7

Wednesday

(University of California at San Diego)

 November 16

CANCELLED

(Rutgers University)

CANCELLED

November 30

(University of Maryland)

 

Spring 2018

Spring 2018

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

Date  

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

March 2  

Ying-Ying Lee
(UC Irvine)  

Canceled 

March 30  

Bo E. Honoré
(Princeton University)  

“Selection Without Exclusion”
(co-authored with Luojia Hu)    

April 6 - 8  

Camp Econometrics XIII
(Saratoga Springs, NY)   



  

Zhijie Xiao
(Boston College)  

Canceled 

April 20

Tim Christensen
(NYU)   

"Counterfactual Sensitivity and Robustness"



Fall 2017

Fall 2017

Date 

Speaker and Institution  

Title  

Date 

Speaker and Institution  

Title  

September 15  

John Jones
(Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) 

"An Estimated Structural Model of Entrepreneurial Behavior"
(co-authored with Sangeeta Pratap)

September 22 

Frank DiTraglia
(University of Pennsylvania)  

"Mis-classified, Binary, Endogenous Regressors: Identification and Inference"
(co-authored with Camilo Garcia-Jimeno) 

November 10
426 Eggers Hall 

Chris Parmeter
(University of Miami) 

“Calculating the Number of Parameters 
in Multivariate Local Polynomial Regression”
(co-authored with Nadine McCloud)  

December 1 

 Jun Cai
(Syracuse University) 

"Deconvolution with Laplacian Error and Unknown Scale" 



Spring 2017

Spring 2017

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title 

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title 

February 17 

Myung Hwan Seo 
(Seoul National University) 

"Local M-estimation with Discontinuous Criterion 
for Dependent and Limited Observations" 
(co-authored with Taisuke Otsu) 

Tuesday
February 28
3:30-5:00 p.m. 

Jeremy Fox 
(Rice University) 

"Heterogenous Production Functions, Panel Data, and Productivity Dispersion" 
(co-authored with Vitor Hadad, Stefan Hoderlein, Amil Petrin, and Bob Sherman) 

March 24 

 Hyunseok Jung 
(Syracuse University) 

"Adaptive lasso estimation of a zero inefficiency stochastic frontier 
(ZISF) panel data model" 

April 7 - 9 

 Camp Econometrics XII
(Lake Placid, NY)  



May 5 

 Yoon-Jae Whang 
(Seoul National Univ.; visiting Yale Univ.) 

"Inference on Distribution Functions under Measurement Error"
(co-authored with Karun Adusumilli and Taisuke Otsu) 



Fall 2016

Fall 2016

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title 

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title 

Thursday 
July 28  

 Jaewoo Oh 
(Syracuse University) 

 "Misspecified Recovery or Recovery of the Long-term Risk: Evidences from the Gaussian Affine Term Structure" 

Wednesday October 5 
1:30-3:30 p.m.  

Jeff S. Racine 
(McMaster University)  

"NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION-SPLINE RANDOM EFFECTS MODELS" 

October 14 

Youngki Shin 
 (University of Technology Sydney) 

"Oracle Estimation of a Change Point in High Dimensional Quantile Regression” 



Spring 2016

Spring 2016

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title 

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title 

April 1 

Joris Pinkse 
(Penn State) 

"Counterfactual Prediction in Complete Information Games: 
Point Prediction under Partial Identification" 
(by Sung Jae Jun and Joris Pinkse) 

 April 8 -10 

 Camp Econometrics 



April 15 

Jean-Marie Dufour 
(McGill University) 

"Rank-Robust Wald-Type Tests: A Regularization Approach"  

Wednesday 
April, 20 
12:15-1:45 p.m. 

Victor Aguirregabiria 
(University of Toronto) 
(Joint with Applied Micro Seminar) 

"Estimating the Effects of Deregulation in the Ontario Alcohol Retail Market,"  



Fall 2015

Fall 2015

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

Date 

Speaker and Institution 

Title  

Thursday 
September 3 

 Kei Hirano 
(University of Arizona) 

"Forecasting with Model Uncertainty: Representations and Risk Reduction" 

September 25 

 Jae Woo Oh 
(Syracuse University) 

 "On the Over-Detection Probability of the Number of Factors" 

October 2 

 Shulin Shen 
(Syracuse University) 

 "Diffusion Index Forecasts and Factor-Augmented Regressions in Nonstationary Time Series" 

October 23 

Antonio F. Galvao 
(University of Iowa) 

"Measurement Errors in Quantile Regression Models" 

October 30 

 Fa Wang 
(Syracuse University) 

 "Estimating and testing high dimensional factor models with multiple changes" 

November 6 

Ismael Mourifié  
(University of Toronto) 

"Sharp Instrumental Inequalities: Testing IV independence assumption" 

November 20 

 Bin Peng 
(Syracuse University) 

"Testing Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Panel Data Models 
with Serial Correlation"