Spring 2021
Zoom *Contact Boyuan Zhang for Zoom link
| Date |
Speaker |
Paper Title |
| March 15, 2021 |
Boyuan Zhang |
Forecast with Prior Wisdom on the Group Structure |
| March 29, 2021 |
Edvard Bakhitov |
Causal Gradient Boosting: Boosted Instrumental Variable Regression |
| April 5, 2021 |
Aaron Mora Melendez |
Text into FX: Exchange Rate Supervised Topic Extraction |
| April 19, 2021 |
Marko Mlikota |
Estimating Nonlinear Economies Using Approximate Models |
| April 26, 2021 |
Di Tian |
Costly Misallocation: Endogenous Growth and Asset Prices |
Fall 2020
There will be no lunch seminars this semester
Spring 2020
Location: PCPSE 101
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date |
Speaker |
Paper Title |
| March 16, 2020 |
Edward George |
Multidimensional Monotonicity Discovery with MBART |
| March 23, 2020 |
Maximilian Göbel ( University of Lisbon visiting Penn) |
Modeling and Extrapolating Arctic Feedback Loops using Vector Autoregressions |
| March 30, 2020 |
Francesco Corsello (Bank of Italy visiting Penn) |
Yield Curve Forecasting in the Euro Area |
| April 6, 2020 |
Boyuan Zhang |
TBA |
| April 13, 2020 |
Philippe Goulet Coulombe |
TBA |
| April 20, 2020 |
Xiaoliang Wang |
TBA |
| April 27, 2020 |
Edvard Bakhitov |
TBA |
Fall 2020
Location: PCPSE TBD
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date |
Speaker |
Paper Title |
| October 5, 2020 |
Frank Diebold |
Arctic Sea Ice |
Fall 2019
Location: PCPSE 101
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date |
Speaker |
Paper Title |
| September 9, 2019 |
Francesco Corsello, Bank of Italy |
"The Global Component of Inflation Volatility" |
| September 16, 2019 |
Chris Hansen, Chicago Booth |
“Inference for Heterogeneous Effects Using Low-Rank Estimation of Factor Slopes” |
| September 23, 2019 |
Peng Shao |
"Semiparametric Panel Model and Group Heterogeneity, with an application to Production Function" |
| September 30, 2019 |
Adam McCloskey, University of Colorado |
"Inference After Estimation of Breaks" |
| October 7, 2019 |
Wayne Gao |
"Identification in Dyadic Models of Network Formation" |
| October 14, 2019 |
Philippe Goulet Coulombe |
"The Macroeconomy as a Random Forest" |
| October 21, 2019 |
Boyuan Zhang |
"With A Little Help From My Friends: Cross-Correlations, Machine Learning and Macro Forecasting" |
| October 28, 2019 |
Sara Casella |
"Structural Estimation of Dynamic Equilibrium Models with Unstructured Data" |
| November 4, 2019 |
Maximilian Gobel, Technical University of Lisbon |
"A Network Structure Analysis of Economic Crises" |
| November 11, 2019 |
Roger Moon, University of Southern California
|
"Forecasting as a Robust Decision: Local Asymptotic Evaluation"
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| November 18, 2019 |
Alejandro Sanchez |
"Peer effects: Selection in Network Models" |
| December 2, 2019 |
Karun Adusumilli |
"Temporal-Difference estimation of dynamic discrete choice models" |
Spring 2019
Location: PCPSE 100
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
| Date |
Speaker |
Paper Title |
| February 25, 2019 |
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| March 4, 2019 |
Spring Break |
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| March 11, 2019 |
No Seminar Today |
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| March 18, 2019 |
Antonio Conti (Bank of Italy visiting Penn) |
"Bank capital constraints, lending supply and economic activity" |
| March 25, 2019 |
Paul Sangrey |
"Identification Robust Inference for Risk Prices in Structural Stochastic Volatility Models" |
| April 1, 2019 |
Alejandro Sanchez |
"Network peer effects with selection into treatment: Reevaluating microfinance adoption in India" |
| April 8, 2019 |
Karun Adusumilli |
"Dynamically optimal treatment allocation using Reinforcement Learning" |
| April 15, 2019 |
Peng Shao |
"Two-Steps Sieve M-Estimation with Group Heterogeneity, with Application to Production Function" |
| April 22, 2019 |
Edvard Bakhitov |
"Frequentist Shrinkage under Inequality Constraints" |
| April 29, 2019 |
Philippe Goulet Coulombe |
"Sparse and Dense Time-Varying Parameters Models using Machine Learning" |
