Yong Song (University of Toronto)

Modeling Regime Switching and Structural Breaks with an Infinite Dimension Markov Switching Model

Friday, October 8 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christian Gourieroux (University of Toronto)

Microinformation, Nonlinear Filtering and Granularity (joint with P. Gagliardini and A. Monfort)

Friday, October 15 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Radford Neal (Statistics Department, University of Toronto)

MCMC Using Ensembles of States with Applicaton to Gaussian Process Regression

Friday, October 22 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Salvador Navarro (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Identification and Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects: How The Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes (joint with Jane Cooley and Yuya Takahashi)

Friday, October 29 2010 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)

A General Theory of Matching Estimators (joint with Guido Imbens)

Friday, November 5 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yann Bramoullé (Université Laval)

Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation (joint with Vincent Boucher, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin)

Friday, November 12 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University)

Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies (joint with Andrew C. Thomas)

Friday, November 19 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dinghai Xu (University of Waterloo)

A Threshold Stochastic Volatility Model with Realized Volatility

Friday, November 26 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Carol Caetano (University of Rochester)

A Discontinuity Test of Endogeneity

Friday, December 3 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yuanyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University)

An integration-based approach to moment inequality models

Friday, January 28 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Haiqing Xu (The Pennsylvania State Universit)

Parametric and Semiparametric Structural Estimation of Hotelling-type Discrete Choice Games in A Single Market with An Increasing Number of Players

Tuesday, February 1 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)

Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Friday, February 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Koen Jochmans (CORE and Brown University)

CANCELLED

Tuesday, February 8 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matt Taddy (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Inverse Regression for Analysis of Sentiment in Text

Friday, March 18 2011 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106