Faculty and invited speakers present current econometrics and statistics research, with particular emphasis on methods and applications relating to business and economic problems. Meetings are open to all interested faculty and MBA and PhD students.

The workshop will be held in-person (in HC 3B, unless otherwise noted), with no virtual options. Please contact workshop administrator Mary Kate Stanfa to be added to the listserv for weekly updates.

When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers. Therefore, the link will be unavailable.

Winter 2025

Date Time Location Topic Speaker Institution

Thursday, January 9

1:20pm - 2:30pm

Harper 3B

Testing Mechanisms

See associated paper.

Jon Roth

Brown 

BFI Visitor

Thursday, January 16

1:20pm - 2:30pm
Harper 3B

Synthetic IV Estimation in Panels

See associated paper.

Jaume Vives-i-Bastida MIT
Thursday, January 23 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B Modern Sampling Paradigms: from Posterior Sampling to Generative AI 

See associated paper.

Yuchen Wu Wharton
Tuesday, January 28 10:50am - 12:00pm Harper 3B

Active Statistical Inference

See associated paper.

Tijana Zrnic Stanford
Thursday, January 30 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B

Statistical methods for assessing the factual accuracy of large language models

See associated paper.

John Cherian Stanford
Thursday, February 6 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B 

Identification of Long-Term Treatment Effects via Temporal Links, Observational, and Experimental Data

See associated paper.

Filip Obradovic Northwestern
Thursday, February 13 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B TBA Sanjog Misra Booth
Thursday, February 20 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B NO WORKSHOP -- --
Thursday, February 27 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B TBA
Matt Masten Duke
Thursday, March 6 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B TBA Zhimei Ren Wharton
Thursday, March 13
1:20pm - 2:30pm
Harper 3B NO WORKSHOP
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Spring 2025

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Autumn 2024

Date Time Location Topic Speaker Institution

Thursday, October 3rd

1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B

Unexpected Test Losses from Generalization Theory?

View paper 1 and paper 2.

Frederic Koehler UChicago Stats

Thursday, October 10th

1:20pm - 2:30pm

Harper 3B

Causal inference with complex experiments: spillover effects and generalizability

View paper.

Davide Viviano Harvard
Thursday, October 17th 1:20pm - 2:30pm
Harper 3B Asymptotic Representations for Sequential Decisions, Adaptive Experiments, and Batched Bandits
Jack Porter Wisconsin
Thursday, October 24th 1:20pm - 2:30pm
Harper 3B

Decoding Equity Market Reactions to Macroeconomic News

Michele Modugno
Federal Reserve
Thursday, October 31st 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B Transformers, parallelism, and the role of depth
Daniel Hsu Columbia
Thursday, November 7th 1:20pm - 2:30pm
Harper 3B Theoretical Foundations of Variational Bayesian Inference
Yun Yang Maryland
Thursday, November 14th 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B Structured density estimation using diffusion models Minwoo Chae Postech
Thursday, November 21st 1:20pm - 2:30pm
Harper 3B
Data Integration for Heterogeneous Data Annie Qu
UC Irvine
Thursday, November 28th Thanksgiving - No Workshop -- -- -- --
Thursday, December 5th 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B

Learning High-Dimensional Distributions via Flow-Based Generative Models

View paper 1, paper 2, paper 3, and paper 4.

Yao Xie Georgia Tech
Thursday, December 12th 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B

Distributionally constrained empirical likelihood for robust inference

View paper.

Debdeep Pati Wisconsin