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)