2008 Cowles Summer Conference

OPERATOR METHODS AND INVERSE PROBLEMS IN ECONOMETRICS

June 9–10, 2008

Organizers: Xiaohong Chen & Yuichi Kitamura
List of Attendees

MONDAY 8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:30 SESSION 1
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago), "Modeling the Long Run: Valuation in Dynamic Stochastic Economies"
Nour Meddahi (Imperial College), "Temporal Aggregation of Nonlinear Volatility Models" [abstract]
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 SESSION 2
Whitney Newey (MIT), "Identification & Estimation of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models with Additivity"
Andres Santos (UCSD), "Instrumental Variables Methods Recovering Continuous Linear Functionals"
12:30–2:30 Lunch
2:30–4:00 SESSION 3
Enno Mammen (Mannheim), "Some Statistical Problems Leading to Emperical Integral Equations of Type II"
Jan Johannes (Heidelberg), "Functional Linear Instrumental Regression under Second Order Stationarity"
4:00–4:30 Coffee Break
4:30–6:00 SESSION 4
Simon Lee (UCL/UK), "Testing a Parametric Quantile-Regression Model with an Endogenous Explanatory Variable Against a Nonparametric Alternative"
Xiaohong Chen (Yale), "Efficient Estimation of Nonparametric Quantile IV Weighted Average Derivative"
7:00 Dinner, Ibiza, 39 High Street, New Haven
TUESDAY 9:00–10:30 SESSION 1
Frits Ruymgaart (Texas Tech University), "Frechet-Differentiation of Functions of Operators with Application to Functional Regression" [abstract]
Sebastien Van Bellegem (UCL/Belgium), "Hilbert-Scale Regularization for Functional Estimation under Conditional Moment Conditions" [abstract]
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 SESSION 2
Joel Horowitz (Northwestern), "Specification Testing in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation" [abstract]
Marine Carrasco (University of Montreal), "A Regularization Approach to the many Instruments Problem"
12:30–2:30 Lunch
2:30–4:00 SESSION 3
Jean-Pierre Florens (Toulouse), "Nonparametric Estimation of an Instrumental Regression: A Bayesian Approach Based on Regularized Posterior"
Gautum Tripathi, (University of Connecticut), "Nonparametric Estimation of Returns to Scale" [abstract]
4:00–4:30 Coffee Break
4:30–6:00 SESSION 4
Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill), "Generalized Functions Spaces in Identification Problems"
Eric Gautier (ENSAE-CREST), and Yuichi Kitamura (Yale), "Nonparametric Estimation in Random Coefficients Binary Choice Models"
7:00 Dinner, Thali, 4 Orange Street, New Haven


ATTENDEES

Don Andrews (Yale University)
Marine Carrasco (University of Montreal)
Xiaohong Chen (Yale University
Aureo de Paula (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago)
Jean-Pierre Florens (University of Toulouse)
Eric Gautier (ENSAE)
Lars Hansen (University of Chicago)
Stefan Hoderlein (University of Mannheim)
Joel Horowitz (Northwestern University)
Hidehiko Ichimura (University of Tokyo)
Jan Johannes (University of Heidelberg
Yuichi Kitamura (Yale University)
Frank Kleibergen (Brown University)
Michael Keane (University of Technology Sydney
   & Arizona State University)
Simon (Sokbae) Lee (University College of London)
Jean-Michel Loubes (University of Montpellier)
Enno Mammen (University of Mannheim)
Nour Meddahi (Imperial College of London)
Whitney Newey (MIT)
Tai Otsu (Yale University)
Peter C B Phillips (Yale University)
Demian Pouzo (New York University)
James Powell (University of CA-Berkeley)
Frits Ruymgaart (Texas Technical Institute)
Andres Santos (University of California, San Diego)
Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago)
Liangjun Su (Peking University)
Shanghua Teng (Boston University)
Gautam (Tripathi University of Connecticut)
Sebastian Van Bellegem (Institut de Statistique, Univ Catholique de Louvain)
Ed Vytlacil (Yale University)
Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill University)