Lectures

1. Introduction to dynamic structural econometrics

Robert A. Miller
Monday, 8 December

2. Quasi-Experiments in Dynamic Structural Econometrics

Robert A. Miller
Monday, 8 December

3. Doubly nested fixed point (NFXP) algorithm for estimation of equilibrium models

Bertel Schjerning
Monday, 8 December

4. Structural Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Fixed Effects

Victor Aguirregabiria
Monday, 8 December

5. Finite Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Robert A. Miller
Tuesday, 9 December

6. Euler–Finite Dependence Operators for Solving Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Victor Aguirregabiria
Tuesday, 9 December

7. Modeling choice

Chao Fu
Tuesday, 9 December

8. Locally robust estimation and machine learning in dynamic structural econometrics

Whitney Newey
Tuesday, 9 December

9. Dynamic demand estimation with aggregate data

Marc Rysman
Friday, 12 December

10. Sequential estimation of dynamic discrete games (NPL)

Victor Aguirregabiria
Friday, 12 December

11. Dynamic Games with Continuous Actions

Tang Srisuma
Friday, 12 December

12. Endogenous grid point methods (EGM and DCEGM)

Fedor Iskhakov
Friday, 12 December

13. Labor markets and social insurance

Hanming Fang
Saturday, 13 December

14. Bridging Quasi-natural Experiments and Structural Models

Naijia Guo
Saturday, 13 December

15. Identifying Search and Stockpiling Behavior: Experimental and Field Data

Andrew Ching
Saturday, 13 December

16. Solving and estimating directional dynamic games, RLS and NRLS

Fedor Iskhakov, John Rust, Bertel Schjerning
Saturday, 13 December






Conference presentations

Keynote 1: Equity-Efficiency Implications of Output-Based College Resource Allocation

Chao Fu
Wednesday, 10 December

Keynote 2: Conditional Influence Functions

Whitney Newey
Wednesday, 10 December

Keynote 3: Housing Privatization as Intergenerational Redistribution

Hanming Fang
Thursday, 11 December

Keynote 4: Investment and Usage of the Subsea Internet Cable Network

Marc Rysman
Thursday, 11 December

Session 1: Topics in IO #1

Wednesday, 10 December

  • Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing (Zhe Yuan)
  • Cross-Product Compatibility, Lock-In, and Market Power: The Case of Smartphones and Laptops (Yuval Lidany)
  • How Do People Update Beliefs? Evidence from the Laboratory (Andrew Ching)

Session 2: Economics of Education

Wednesday, 10 December

  • School Choice, Teacher Access and Student Outcomes (Yuzhi Yao)
  • Constrained School Choice and the Demand for Effective Schools (Marco Pariguana)
  • Funding Instruments and Effort Choices in Higher Education (Guillem Foucault)

Session 3: Topics in IO #2

Wednesday, 10 December

  • Trade Liberalization, Export and Product Innovation (Sizhong Sun)
  • Dynamic Incentives for Venture Capitalists to Screen Investment Projects (Chunlan Xu)
  • Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Production Function, Total Factor Productivity, and Consumer Demand Function from Firm-Level Revenue Data (Chun Pang (Alex) Chow)

Session 4: Conditional Cash Transfers

Wednesday, 10 December

  • Model-Aided Identification of Policy Effects Using RCTs (Zejin Shi)
  • Compensation vs. Reinforcement: Experimental Identification of Parental Aversion to Inequality in Offspring (Hyunjae Jay Kang)
  • Experimental design for policy choice (Samuel Higbee)

Session 5: New Methods #1

Wednesday, 10 December

  • Structural Regularization (Jiaming Mao)
  • Robust Structural Estimation under Misspecified Latent-State Dynamics (Ertian Chen)
  • Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games with Unknown Information Structure (Paul Koh)

Session 6: Urban Economics

Wednesday, 10 December

  • Housing Assistance, Family Dynamics and Labor Supply of Men and Women (Thomas Jørgensen)
  • Residential Segregation in Chinese Cities (Yizhen Gu)
  • Spatial Misallocation in Education: The Left-Behind and Land Reforms in China (Karol Mazur)

Session 8: Human Capital Investment

Thursday, 11 December

  • A study of microdynamics of early childhood learning (Jin Zhou)
  • College Admission Policies and Pre-College Human Capital Investment: Evidence from China (Xiaohan Zhong)
  • A Dynamic Analysis of Parental Beliefs and Investments (Rachel Tan)

Session 9: Cars

Thursday, 11 December

  • Intermediaries in Decentralized Markets: Evidence from Used-Car Transactions (Fei Li)
  • Managing Policy Preannouncement (Jiasheng Li)
  • Charging the Elephant in the Room: EV Incentives, Market Power, and Externalities (Paula Navarro)

Session 10: Health Economics

Thursday, 11 December

  • Optimal Payment Levels for Reference-Dependent Physicians (Hang Zou)
  • Vital Links: The Healthcare Impacts of Transportation Networks (Jing Li)
  • Dynamic Treatment Choice and Selection into RCTs (Justin Trogdon)

Session 11: New Methods #2

Thursday, 11 December

  • K-means Clustering of CCPs for Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity (Sorawoot Srisuma)
  • Conditional Choice Probability Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with 2-period Finite Dependence (Yu Hao)
  • Sequential algorithm for structural estimations with equilibrium constraints (Takeshi Fukasawa)

Session 12: Labor and Marriage Markets

Thursday, 11 December

  • Sex and the City: Spatial Structural Changes and the Marriage Market (Yu (Alan) Yang)
  • Learning-by-Doing: New Tasks Are Interesting, Familiar Tasks Are Easier– Exploring the Dynamic Behavior of Workers on the Crowdsourcing Platform (Da Eun Han)
  • Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the Effect of Children’s Health Shocks on Intra-household Resource Allocation (Naijia Guo)

Session 13: Environmental Economics

Thursday, 11 December

  • Welfare Effects of Reducing Coal Production in China (Xincheng Qiu)
  • Food Security at What Cost? Cropland Protection Policy under Climate Change in China (Jiahuan Li)
  • Entry Regulation in the Presence of Reputation: Theory and Evidence (Yucheng Quan)

Session 14: New Methods #3

Thursday, 11 December

  • Estimating Nonseparable Selection Models: A Functional Contraction Approach (Fan Wu)
  • Policy Choice in Time Series by Empirical Welfare Maximization (Mengshan Xu)
  • Education Policy and the Quality of Public Servants (Juan Pantano)

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