Seminars
Seminars
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonio Nicolò (Universita di Padova)
"On the Efficiency of Partial Information in Elections" We study the relation between the electorate’s information about candidates’ policy platforms during an election, and the subsequent provision of inefficient local publicgoods (pork) by the elected government. More information does not lead to better outcomes. We show that the efficient outcome in which no candidate proposes…
Seminars in Economics Elie Tamer (Northwestern University)
"Sensitivity analysis in a likelihood model"
Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Price as a signal of product quality: experimental evidence from wine tastings" Abstract:We study the determinants of the choice between wines in wine tasting experiments where about 200 nonprofessional tasters were asked to indicate which one of the tasted wines they preferred and which one they would buy. In addition to actually tasting several wines, which differ in terms…
Seminars in Statistics Sergio Bacallado (Stanford University)
A Bayesian analysis of reversible time series with an uncertain length of memory We propose a Bayesian analysis of reversible time series using a Probabilistic Suffix Automaton (PSA) model. We show that PSAs have a representation as higher-order Markov chains, and that the class of reversible PSAs generalize reversible variable-order Markov chains. The analysis uses…
Occasional Seminars CHILD Seminar: Kelly Ragan (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Sex and the Single Girl: The Role of Culture in Contraception Demand"
Seminars in Economics Mariagiovanna Baccara (Washington University, St. Louis)
"Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race"
Seminars in Economics Andy Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania)
"Mental Processes and Decision Making"
Seminars in Economics Stefano Della Vigna (Berkeley)
"Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving" and "The Role of Theory in Field Experiments"
Seminars in Economics Ran Spiegler (University College London)
"Price Competition under Limited Comparability"
Seminars in Economics Ivan Canay (Northwestern)
"Distortions of Asymptotic Confidence Size in Locally Misspecified Moment Inequality Models"
Monday Lunch Seminars Chris Flinn (New York University and Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"An Estimable Equilibrium Model of Labor Market Search and Schooling Choice"
Seminars in Politics and Society Michael Biggs (Oxford University)
"Ethnic Composition and the Extreme Right: A Multilevel Analysis of Membership in the British National Party"
Seminars in Statistics Keisuke Hirano (University Of Arizona)
"Impossibility Results for Nondifferentiable Functionals"
Seminars in Economics Juuso Valimaki (Aalto University)
"Delay and Information Aggregation in Stopping Games with Private Information"
Seminars in Economics Jon Guryan (Northwestern)
"Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: the Roles of Access and Health Soon after Birth"
Monday Lunch Seminars Marco Mariotti (Visiting Fellow from University of St. Andrews)
"A Salience Theory of Choice Errors"
Seminars in Economics Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins)
"Estimating Marginal Treatment Effects of Transfer Programs on Labor Supply"
Seminars in Economics Rosa Matzkin (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Estimation of Nonparametric Models with Simultaneity"
Monday Lunch Seminars Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Treatment choice using empirical risk minimization"