Research Workshops Econometrics and Statistics Colloquium
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 Charisse Willis 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.
Spring 2025
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 27 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Estimating Social Network Formation and a Central Limit Theorem for Correlated Random Variables |
Matt Jackson | Stanford |
| Thursday, April 3 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Estimating Treatment Quantiles Without Assumptions See associated paper here |
Siddharth Bhandari | Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
| Thursday, April 10 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
UCB Algorithms for Multi-Armed Bandits: Precise Regret and Adaptive Inference See associated paper here |
Cun-Hui Zhang | Rutgers |
| Thursday, April 17 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
The Conflict Graph Design: Estimating Causal Effects Under Interference See associated paper here |
Chris Harshaw | Columbia |
| Thursday, April 24 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Individualized Treatment Allocation in Sequential Network Games See associated paper here |
Toru Kitagawa | Brown |
| Thursday, May 1 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Warp Speed Price Moves: Jumps after Earnings Announcements See associated paper here |
Allan Timmermann | UC San Diego |
| Thursday, May 8 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Dendrogram of mixing measures: Hierarchical clustering and model selection using finite mixture models | Long Nguyen | Michigan |
| Thursday, May 15 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | No Workshop | No Workshop | No Workshop |
| Thursday, May 22 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Minimax optimality in causal inference | Edward Kennedy | CMU |
| Thursday, May 29 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | TBD | Iavor Bojinov | Harvard |
Winter 2025
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Thursday, January 9 |
1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B |
Testing Mechanisms |
Jon Roth |
Brown BFI Visitor |
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Thursday, January 16 |
1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B |
Synthetic IV Estimation in Panels |
Jaume Vives-i-Bastida | MIT |
| Thursday, January 23 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Modern Sampling Paradigms: from Posterior Sampling to Generative AI | Yuchen Wu | Wharton |
| Tuesday, January 28 | 10:50am - 12:00pm | Harper 3B |
Active Statistical Inference |
Tijana Zrnic | Stanford |
| Thursday, January 30 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Statistical methods for assessing the factual accuracy of large language models |
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 |
Filip Obradovic | Northwestern |
| Thursday, February 13 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Foundation Priors | Sanjog Misra | Booth |
| NO WORKSHOP | -- | -- | |||
| Thursday, February 27 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Finite Population Identification and Design Based Sensitivity Analysis |
Matt Masten | Duke |
| Thursday, March 6 | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Boosting e-BH via conditional calibration |
Zhimei Ren | Wharton |
| NO WORKSHOP |
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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? |
Frederic Koehler | UChicago Stats |
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Thursday, October 10th |
1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B |
Causal inference with complex experiments: spillover effects and generalizability |
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 |
Yao Xie | Georgia Tech |
| Thursday, December 12th | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Distributionally constrained empirical likelihood for robust inference |
Debdeep Pati | Wisconsin |