Conference on Frontiers in Machine Learning and Economics

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On October 3-4, 2025,The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Center for Applied AI at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business are co-hosting a conference on Frontiers in Machine Learning and Economics: Methods and Applications. This annual conference brings together leading researchers across academic fields who work at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences. This year’s conference will be held in Chicago at Gleacher Center.

Confirmed plenary speakers

Tamara Broderick | MIT
Dashun Wang | Northwestern University

For any questions, please contact caai@chicagobooth.edu.

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Conference Organizers

Simon Freyaldenhoven

Machine Learning Senior Economist

Christian B. Hansen

Wallace W. Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Vitaly Meursault

Senior Machine Learning Economist

Sanjog Misra

Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing and Applied AI

Minchul Shin

Senior Economic Advisor and Machine Learning Economist

Agenda

Friday, October 3, 2025
9:00 - 10:00 am	Continental Breakfast \| Room 450
10:00 - 11:30 am All sessions will be held in Room 400	Session 1: LLM Applications “AI Inventions and AI Talent Migrations: US and China” \| Hanming Fang (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Xian Gu (Durham University), Hanyin Yan (Tsinghua University), Wu Zhu (Tsinghua University), Discussant: Lee Fleming (Univ. of California, Berkeley) “A Century of Inflation Narratives” \| Alexander K. Zentefis (Stanford University), Mourad Heddaya (Univ. of Chicago), Chenhao Tan (Univ. of Chicago), Rob Voigt (Northwestern University), Qingcheng Zeng (Northwestern University) Discussant: Leland Bybee (Univ. of Chicago)
11:30am - 1:15 pm	Lunch \| Room 450
1:15 - 2:45 pm	Session 2: Finance “Economic Representations” \| Suproteem Sarkar (Univ. of Chicago) Discussant: Bryan Routledge (Carnegie Mellon University) “Firm-Level Input Price Changes and Their Effects: A Deep Learning Approach” \| Indrajit Mitra (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Sudheer Chava (Georgia Institute of Technology), Wendi Du (Univ. of South Carolina), Agam Shah (Georgia Institute of Technology), Linghang Zeng (Babson College) , Discussant: Bradford Levy (University of Chicago)
2:45 - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 - 5:00 p	Session 3: Pricing “The Rise of AI Pricing: Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Firm Performance” \| Min Fang (Univ. of Florida), Jonathan Adams (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City), Zheng Liu (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), Yajie Wang (Univ. of Missouri), Discussant: Kevin Lee (Univ. of Michigan) “Algorithmic Collusion of Pricing and Advertising on E-commerce Platforms” \| Ron Berman (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Hangcheng Zhao (Rutgers), Discussant: Ilya Morozov (Northwestern)
6:00 - 8:00 pm	Dinner & Keynote: Tamara Broderick (MIT) Room 621
Saturday, October 4, 2025
8:30 - 9:30 am	Continental Breakfast \| Room 450
9:30 - 11:45 am All sessions will be held in Room 400	Session 4: Methods “Double Descent in Time Series” \| Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Pablo A. Guerron Quintana (Boston College), Discussant: Yuan Liao (Univ. of Iowa) “Anytime-Valid Inference for Double/Debiased Machine Learning of Causal Parameters” \| Abhinandan Dalal (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Patrick Bloebaum (Amazon Web Services), Shiva Kasiviswanathan (Amazon Web Services) and Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University), Discussant: Rahul Singh (Harvard University) “Pre-Training Estimators for Structural Models: Application to Consumer Search” \| Zhenling Jiang (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Yanhao “Max” Wei (Univ. of Southern California), Discussant: Guillaume Pouliot (Rice University)
11:45am - 12:00 pm	Coffee Break
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Keynote: Dashun Wang (Northwestern University) \| "AI and the Science of Science"
1:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch & Departure \| Room 450

Each contributed talk is assigned 45 minutes, including 25 minutes for the presenter, 10 minutes for the discussant, and 5 minutes for discussion

FAQs

Where will the conference be held?
The conference will take place at the Gleacher Center.

Is there a preferred hotel to stay at for the conference?
Yes, please use this link to navigate to our group rate page.

Will there be parking available?
Yes, see parking locations.

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