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 Heterogeneity in Economic Choice and Selection Models Using Mixtures" (with A. Gandhi)
Steve Berry (Yale University), "Nonparametric Identification of Multinomial Choice Demand Models with Heterogeneous Consumers" (with P. Haile)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 SESSION II
Andrew Chesher (University College London) "Endogeneity and Discrete Outcomes"
Ed Vytlacil, (Yale University) "Monotonicity, Instrumental Variables and the Sign of the Average Treatment Effect" (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" (with Y. Hu)
Philippe Fevrier (University of Chicago), "Identification and Estimation of Incentive Problems: Adverse Selection" (with X. D'Haultfoeuille)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-4:45

6:30-9:00

 SESSION IV
Areo de Paula (University of Pennsylvania), "Interdependent Durations" (with B. Honore)
Dinner, Bentara, 76 Orange Street, New Haven

ATTENDEES
Jaap Abbring (University of Amsterdam)
Marine Carrasco (University of Montreal)
Andrew Chesher (University College London)
Aureo de Paula (University of Pennsylvania)
Hanming Fang (Duke University)
Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago)
Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Eric Gautier (ENSAE)
Stefan Hoderlein (Universtitat Mannheim)
Hong Han (Stanford University)
Hidehiko Ichimura (Institute of Fiscal Studies)
Panle Jia (MIT)
Jan Johannes (University of Heidelberg)
Jakub Kastl (Stanford University)
Michael Keane (New York University)		 John Kennan (University of Wisconsin)
Simon (Sokbae) Lee (University of College London)
Rosa Matzkin (Northwestern University)
Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
Isabelle Perrigne (Penn State University)
James Powell (UCLA, Berkeley)
Peter Reiss (Stanford University)
Stephen Ryan (MIT)
Andres Santos (University of California, San Diego)
Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago)
Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins University)
Joerg Stoye (New York University)
Liangjun Su (University of Peking)
Gautam Tripathi (University of Connecticut)
Sebastien Van Bellegem (Institut de Statistique)
Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill University)