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.

Autumn 2025

 

Date Time Location Topic Speaker Institution
Thursday, October 2
 1:20pm - 2:30pm
 Harper 3B
 Empirical Analysis of Entry Games with Many Firms

Bryan Graham

 University of California at Berkeley
Thursday, October 9
 1:20pm - 2:30pm
 Harper 3B
 The Honest Truth About Causal Trees: Accuracy Limits for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation

Matias Cattaneo

 Princeton University
Thursday, October 16 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B Cluster Randomized-Trials with Cross-Cluster Interference Michael Leung University of California, Santa Cruz
Tuesday, October 23 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B Actually Robust Standard Errors in Linear Regression
 Ulrich Mueller
 Princeton University
Thursday, October 30 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B

Inference time Correcting the AI Model via Stochastic Simulation

 Yiping Lu Northwestern University
Thursday, November 6 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B On the Foundations of the Design-Based Approach Molly Offer-Westort University of Chicago
Thursday, November 13 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B Autoregressive Networks with Dependent Edges and Goodness-of-fit Qiwei Yao London School of Economics
Thursday, November 20 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B Optimization via Strategic Law of Large Numbers Xiaohong Chen Yale University
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving - No Workshop -- -- -- --
Thursday, December 4 1:20 - 2:30pm Harper 3B Statistical Learning of (Bayesian) Physics-Informed Neural Networks Debarghya Mukherjee Boston University

 





















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

See associated papers here and here 

 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

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 Foundation Priors Sanjog Misra Booth
Thursday, February 20 1:20pm - 2:30pm Harper 3B 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

See associated paper

 Zhimei Ren Wharton
Thursday, March 13
 1:20pm - 2:30pm
 Harper 3B NO WORKSHOP
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