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PROGRAM IN STRUCTURAL
MICROECONOMICS |
Program Area Directors :
Steve Berry and Ed Vytlacil
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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. |
VISITORS, 2009/10 (Contact information when
available) |
Heckman, James, University of Chicago (TBA)
Ho, Katherine, Columbia University (8/29/09-12/31/09)
Shcherbakov, Alex University of Arizona (9/1/08-5/31/10)
Su, Che-Lin, University of Chicago (11/16/09 - 11/20/09) |
| PAST VISITORS |
2008/09
Ackerberg, Daniel, UC, Los Angeles
Martin Browning, University of Oxford
Ulrich Doraszelski, Harvard University
James Heckman, University of Chicago
Jim Levinsohn, University of Michigan
Perrigne, Isabelle, Penn State
Alex Shcherbakov, University of Arizona
Quang Vuong, Penn State
Christopher Tabor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2007/08
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 |
2006/07
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
2005/06
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
2004/05
Rob Porter |
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