Workshop on Advances in Microeconometrics 2014

June 28

12:30 – 1:05 Taisuke Otsu (London School of Economics and Political Science)
"Extending the Scope of Cube Root Asymptotics" (joint with Myung Hwan Seo)

1:05 – 1:40 Yukitoshi Matsushita (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Empirical Likelihood for Semiparametric Models with application to Average Treatment Effects"

1:40 – 2:15 Yoichi Arai (GRIPS)
"Optimal Bandwidth Selection for the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity and Local Average Treatment Effect Estimators" (joint with Hidehiko Ichimura)

2:15 – 2:30 intermission, check in

2:30 – 3:05 Ryo Okui (Kyoto University)
"Dynamic Panel Data Analysis when the Dynamics are Heterogenous" (joint with Takahide Yanagi)

3:05 – 3:40 Shin Kanaya (University of Aarhus)
"Estimating the Impact of Means-tested Subsidies under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets (joint with Debopam Bhattacharya and Pascaline Dupas)"

3:40 – 4:15 Kazuhiko Hayakawa (Hiroshima University)
"Identification Problem of GMM estimators for Short Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects"

4:15 – 4:30 intermission, check in

4:30 – 5:05 Yuya Sasaki (Johns Hopkins University)
"Income Dynamics with Heteroskedastic Permanent Shocks" (joint with Irene Botosaru)

5:05 – 5:40 Hidehiko Ichimura (University of Tokyo)
"Conditioning Variables in Program Evaluation Methods"

6:00 – 8:00 dinner

June 28

8:00 breakfast, check out

9:00 – 9:35 Mototsugu Shintani (University of Tokyo)
"Quasi-Bayesian Model Selection" (joint with Atsushi Inoue)

9:35 – 10:10 Tatsushi Oka (National University of Singapore)
"Robust Forecast Interval"

10:10 – 10:45 Hiroaki Kaido (Boston University)
"Inference for Projections of Identified Sets" (joint with Francesca Molinari and Joerg Stoye)

10:45 – 11:00 intermission

11:00 – 11:35 Kengo Kato (University of Tokyo)
"Topics around anti-concentration for Gaussian measures"

11:35 – 12:10 Toru Kitagawa (University College London)