2008
COWLES SUMMER CONFERENCE

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

"OPERATOR METHODS AND INVERSE PROBLEMS
IN ECONOMETRICS"

June 9 - 10, 2008

Organizers: Xiaohong Chen & Yuichi Kitamura

Location: Yale School of Management, Room A53

List of Attendees

MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2008

9:00-10:30 SESSION I
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"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 SESSION II
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 III
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 IV
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, JUNE 10, 2008

9:00-10:30 SESSION I
Frits Ruymgaart, (Texas Tech University), "Frechet-Differentiation of Functions of Operators with Application to Functional Regression"
Sebastien Van Bellegem, (UCL/Belgium), "Hilbert-Scale Regularization for Functional Estimation under Conditional Moment Conditions"
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 SESSION II
Joel Horowitz, (Northwestern), "Specification Testing in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation"
Marine Carrasco, (University of Montreal), "A Regularization Approach to the many Instruments Problem"
12:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 SESSION III
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"
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-6:00 SESSION IV
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
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 Horwitz (Northwestern University)
Jan Johannes (University of Heidelberg)
Michael Keane (University of Technology Sydney & Arizona State University)
Simon (Sokbae) Lee (University College of London)
Enno Mammen (University of Mannheim)
Nour Meddahi (Imperial College of London)
Whitney Newey (MIT)
Demian Pouzo (New York University)
Jim Powell (University of California, Berkeley)Frits Ruymgaart (Texas Technical Institute)
Andres Santos (University of California, San Diego)
Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago)
Liangjun Su (Peking University)
Elie Tamer (Northwestern University)
Shanghua Teng (Boston University)
Gautam Tripathi University of Connecticut)
Sebastian Van Bellegem (Institut de Statistique, Univ Catholique de Louvain)
Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill University)