Non-Standard Methods in Econometrics Conference (2019)

The Georgetown Center for Economic Research is pleased to announce the inaugural Econometrics Mini Conference on Non-Standard Methods in Econometrics will be held on Friday, October 4, 2019. 

The goal of the conference is to bring forth some of the technical methods that have been used in econometrics. Those include but are not limited to: functional analysis, regular variation, shapes, optimization theory. The mini-conference features papers that focus on novel theoretical approaches or tools proposed to address existing empirical problems.

The conference will take place in the Intercultural Center Building, Room 550, from 1:30pm-5:30pm.

Program 

1:30pm – 2:30pm — Andres Santos (UCLA) “The Wild Bootstrap with Small Number of Clusters”
2:30pm – 3:00pm — Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm — Matthew Masten (Duke) “Salvaging Falsified Instrumental Variable Models”
4:00pm – 4:30pm — Break
4:30pm – 5:30pm — Azeem Shaikh (U Chicago) “Inference with Covariate-Adaptive Randomization”