PROGRAM IN STRUCTURAL MICROECONOMICS
Program Directors: Steven Berry and Joseph Altonji
- It is therefore not possible in many economic problems to separate causes and effects
by varying the causes one at a time, studying the separate effect of each cause — a
method so fruitful in the natural sciences. On the other hand, economists do possess more
elaborate and better established theories of economic behavior than the theories of motion
of material bodies known to Kepler.... While much in these theories is incomplete and
in need of reformulation and elaboration ... such theory as we have is an indispensable
element in understanding in a quantitative way the formation of economic variables.... An
observed regularity not traced to underlying behavior patterns, institutional rules, and
laws of production ... is of no help whatever in assessing the probable effects of
stated economic policies or institutional changes.
T. Koopmans, 1947, CFP 25a
Since its earliest days, the Cowles Commission and Cowles Foundation have emphasized
the importance of empirical research with a firm foundation in economic theory. Much
of this work has been aimed at uncovering policy invariant (i.e., "structural'')
economic relationships for both positive and normative purposes.
The Cowles Foundation Program in Structural Microeconomics continues in this tradition,
supporting cutting edge research in a variety of fields of microeconomics that takes
seriously both the statistics and the economics required for informative empirical
work. The Structural Microeconomics program sponsors visiting positions, post-docs,
conferences, and graduate training.
CONFERENCES
Structural Microeconomics Conference, June 3-4, 2013
Marketing-Industrial
Organization Conference, New York City (joint with SOM), April 5-6, 2013
Structural
Empirical Microeconomic Models, June 13-14, 2012
Structural
Microeconomics Conference, June 16–17, 2011
Structural
Microeconomics, June 9–10, 2010
Applications of Structural Microeconomics, June 24–25, 2009
Methods
and Policy Applications in Structural Microeconomics, June 12–13, 2008
Policy
Applications of Structural Microeconomics, June 14–15, 2007
VISITORS, 2013/2014 (Contact
information when available)
Agarwal, Nikhil,
Harvard University (7/1/13 – 6/30/14)
Arcidiacono,
Peter, Duke University (11/11/13 - 11/22/13)
Einav, Liran, Stanford
University (9/16/13 - 9/20/13)
Florens, Jean-Pierre, Toulouse
School of Economics (9/23/13 - 9/27/13)
Krishna,
Kala, Penn State University (9/16/13 - 9/27/13)
Pakes, Ariel, Harvard
University (TBD)
Taber, Christopher, University
of West Madison (9/9/13 - 9/13/13)
Lentz, Rasmus,
University of Wisconsin-Madison (3/31/14 - 4/4/14 & 4/14/14 - 4/18/14 & 4/28/14 -
5/2/14)
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2012/2013
Arellano, Manuel, CEMFI
Asker, John, NYU Stern School of Business
Chaney, Thomas, University of Chicago
Blundell, Richard, University College, London
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre, Columbia University
Ferreyra, Maria, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School
of Business
Gandhi, Amit, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hendel, Igal, Northwestern University
Itskhoki, Oleg, Princeton University
Khandelwal, Amit, Columbia Business School
Komarova, Tatiana, London School of Economics
Krasnokutskaya, Elena, Johns Hopkins University
Melitz, Marc, Harvard University
Shephard, Andrew, Princeton University
Su, Che-Lin, University of Chicago
Todd, Petra, University of Pennsylvania
Voena, Alessandra, University of Chicago
Wolak, Frank, Stanford University
Yurukoglu, Ali, Stanford University
2011/2012
Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania
Jan De Loecker, Princeton University
Michael Dickstein, Harvard University
Jonathan Eaton, Penn State
Robert Feenstra, UC, Davis
Eric French, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Kei Kawai, Northwestern University
Thibaut Lamadon, University College London
Jeremy Lise, University College London
Hamish Low, University of Cambridge
Enrico Moretti, UC, Berkeley
Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University
2010/2011
Jaap Abbring, Tilburg University
Daniel Ackerberg, UC, Los Angeles
Moshe Buchinsky, UC, Los Angeles
Jan De Loecker, Princeton University
Jeremy Fox, University of Michigan
Amit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin
James Heckman, James, University of Chicago
Han Hong, Stanford University
V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University
Jakub Kastl, Stanford University
Jon Levin, Stanford University
Adriana Lleras-Muney, UC, Los Angeles
Denis Nekiplov, UC, Berkeley
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences Po, Paris
Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of Economics
Elie Tamer, Northwestern University
Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania |
2009/2010
James Heckman, University of Chicago
Katherine Ho, Columbia University
Daniel L. McFadden, UC, Berkeley
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University
Alex Shcherbakov, University of Arizona
Che-Lin Su, University of Chicago
Sergio Urzua, Northwestern University
2008/2009
Daniel Ackerberg, UC, Los Angeles
Martin Browning, University of Oxford
Ulrich Doraszelski, Harvard University
James Heckman, University of Chicago
Jim Levinsohn, University of Michigan
Isabelle Perrigne, Penn State
Alex Shcherbakov, University of Arizona
Christopher Taber, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Quang Vuong, Penn State
2007/2008
Ville Valtteri Ahti, University of Helsinki
Christian Bontemps, University of Toulouse 1
Jonathan Eaton, New York University
Ali Hortaçsu University of Chicago
Samuel Kortum, University of Minnesota
2006/2007
Luis Cabral, NYU
James Heckman, University of Chicago
Igal Hendel, Northwestern University
Jakub Kastl, Stanford University
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin
Tong Li, Vanderbilt University
Jean-Marc Robin, Université de Paris 1
John Rust, University of Maryland
Aloysius Siow, University of Minnesota
2005/2006
Richard Blundell, University College, London
Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin
Rosa Matzkin, Northwestern University
Costas Meghir, University College, London
Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University
Michael Whinston, Northwestern University
2004/2005
Rob Porter, Northwestern University |
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