2008
COWLES SUMMER CONFERENCE

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

"IDENTIFICATION OF ECONOMIC MODELS"

June 11, 2008

Organizers: Philip Haile & Ed Vytlacil

Location: Yale School of Management, Room A51

List of Attendees

Wednesday, JUNE 11, 2008

8:00 - 8:50 Continental Breakfast
8:50 - 9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00 -10:30 SESSION 1
Jeremy Fox, (University of Chicago) "Identifying Selection and Discrete-Continuous Models Using Mixtures" (joint with A. Gandhi)
Steve Berry, (Yale University), "Nonparametric Identification of Multinomial Choice Demand Models with Heterogeneous Consumers" (joint with P. Haile)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION II
Andrew Chesher, (UCL) "Endogeneity and Discrete Outcomes"
Ed Vytlacil, (Yale University) "Monotonicity, Instrumental Variables and the Sign of the Average Treatment Effect," (joint with C. Machado and A. Shaikh)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 SESSION III
Matt Shum, (Johns Hopkins University), "Nonparametric Identification of Dynamic Models with Unobserved State Variables" (joint with Y. Hu)
Philippe Fevrier, (University of Chicago), "Identification and Estimation of Incentive Problems: Adverse Selection" (joint with X. D'Haultfoeuille)
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:45 SESSION IV
Areo de Paula, (University of Pennsylvania), "Interdependent Durations," (joint with B. Honore)
6:30 - 9:00 Dinner