ECONOMICS 242

Econometrics Seminar
Fall 2007
Instructor: Bryan Graham
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Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans
Schedule: Thursday, 4-6 pm


*Seminar date, time, and location may vary when held in conjunction with another seminar

August 30 No Meeting

September 6 Organizational Meeting
September 13 Bryan Graham, University of California, Berkeley
"GMM 'equivalence' for semiparametric missing data models"
September 20 Paul Ruud, University of California, Berkeley
"Estimating Mixtures of Discrete Choice Models"
September 27 Matias Damian Cattaneo, University of California, Berkeley
"Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Multi-valued Treatment Effects"
October 4 Whitney Newey, M.I.T.
"Partial identification of marginal effects in panel data"
October 11 & 18 No Meeting

October 25 Dan McFadden, University of California, Berkeley
"Maximal Uniform Convergence Rates in Parametric Estimation Problems"
(with Walter Beckert)
November 1 Ulrich Mueller, Princeton University
*Two Papers*
"t-statistic based correlation and heterogeneity robust inference"

(with Rustam Ibragimov)
and "An Alternative Sense of Asymptotic Efficiency"
November 8 Christian Hansen , University of Chicago, GSB
"Identification of Marginal Effects in a Nonparametric Correlated Random Effects Model"
(with C. Alan Bester)
November 15
Han Hong, Stanford University
  "Estimating Static Models of Strategic Interactions"
(with Patrick Bajari, John Krainer, and Denis Nekipelov)
November 22 Thanksgiving Holiday
November 29
Keisuke Hirano, University of Arizona
  "Adaptive Design of Multiple Stage Experiments using the Propensity Score"
(with Jinyong Hahn and Dean Karlan)
December 6 James Powell, University of California, Berkeley
"Simple Estimators for Semiparametric Multinomial Choice"

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