2025 Conference on Frontiers in Machine Learning and Economics

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

“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

“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