Saturday, September 23rd, 2023
9:00 am – 5:00 pm ET
Elliott School of International Affairs
Lindner Family Commons (6th Floor)
1957 E Street, NW, Suite 501
Washington, DC 20052
9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Welcome (light breakfast will be provided for all attendees)
9:30-11:00 Session 1A (Chair: Ben Williams)
Xu Lin (Virginia Tech), “Network Structures and Economic Behaviors”
Ali Habibnia (Virginia Tech), “A Time-varying Causal Inference Framework for Modeling Systemic Risk in High-Dimensional Financial Networks” (joint with Jalal Etesami and Negar Kiyavash)
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Session 1B (Chair: Ben Williams)
Lixiong Li (Johns Hopkins), “Finite Sample Inference in Incomplete Models” (joint with Marc Henry)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (catered lunch will be provided for all attendees)
1:30-3:00 Session 2 (Chair: Nicholas Li)
Fangzhu Yang (Johns Hopkins), “The Effect of China’s Universal Two-Child Policy on Gender Inequality”
Shervin S. Tehrani (UT-Dallas), “Estimating Position and Social Influence Effects in Online Search: An Empirical Generalized Weitzman Model” (joint with Andrew T. Ching, Ata Jameei Osgouie, and Brian Ratchford)
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 Session 3 (Chair: Robert Phillips)
Eric Nielsen (Federal Reserve Board), “Identification and Estimation of Average Marginal Treatment Effects with a Bunching Design” (joint with Carolina Caetano and Gregorio Caetano)
Nicholas Li (George Washington), “Bunching as Quantile Differences with Implications for Welfare Analyses”
This conference is hosted by The Institute for International Economic Policy. The workshop, held annually on the third Saturday in September, is meant to gather faculty and graduate students working in Econometrics for a one-day event.
