Segment 5

Theory-Based Micro-Econometric Modeling

July 16 - 19, 2007

Organizers: Frank Wolak of the Department of Economics at Stanford University and Quang Vuong and Isabelle Perrigne, Pennsylvania State University
 

 

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Monday, July 16

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 A Structural Empirical Model of R&D, Productivity Heterogeneity and Industry Evolution by Daniel Xu, Pennsylvania State University

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:30 Product Repositioning in Differentiated Product Industries: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry by Andrew Sweeting, Duke University

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee

12:00 - 1:00 The Determinants of Bank Mergers: A Revealed Preference Analysis presented by Ali Hortaçsu, co-authored with Oktay Akkus, also University of Chicago

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:00 Estimation of Auction Models with Mismeasured Number of Bidders presented by Matthew Shum, co-authored with Yingyao Hu, also Johns Hopkins University

3:00 - 3:20 Coffee

3:20 – 4:20 A Dynamic Model of the Housing Market with a New Test of Market Efficiency presented by Patrick Bayer, Duke University, co-authored with Robert McMillan, University of Toronto, Alvin Murphy and Christopher Timmins, Duke University

4:20 - 4:40 Coffee

4:40 - 5:40 Constrained Optimization Approaches to Estimation of Structural Models presented by Kenneth Judd, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University co-authored with Che-Lin Su, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Tuesday, July 17

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 Reconsidering the Mechanisms of Peer Achievement Spillovers: Implications for Identification and Policy by Jane Cooley, University of Wisconsin, Madison

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee

10:20 - 11:20 Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences presented by Maurizio Mazzocco, University of California, Los Angeles, co-authored with Shiv Saini, University of Wisconsin, Madison

11:20 - 11:40 Coffee

11:40 - 12:40 A Feasible Equilibrium Search Model of Individual Wage Dynamics with Experience Accumulation by Jean-Marc Robin, Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne and University College, London

12:40 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:00 Ex Ante Evaluation of Social Programs+D12 presented by Petra Todd, co-authored with Kenneth I. Wolpin, also University of Pennsylvania

3:00 - 3:20 Coffee

3:20 – 4:20 Identification and Estimation of Incentive Problems: Adverse Selection presented by Phillippe Fevrier, LEI-CREST and Ecole Polytechnique, co-authored with Xavier d’Haultfoeuille, ENSAE, CREST-INSEE and Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne

4:20 - 4:40 Coffee

4:40 - 5:40 Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection and Health Expenditures: A Semiparametric Analysis presented by Ahmed Khwaja, Duke University, co-authored with Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota and Han Hong, Stanford University

7:00 PM Dinner

 

Wednesday, July 18

8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 Demand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability presented by Julie Mortimer, Harvard University, co-authored with Chris Conlon, Yale University

9:30 - 9:50 Coffee

9:50 - 10:50 Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms presented by Alan Sorensen, co-authored with Chenghuan Sean Chu and Phillip Lesley also Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

10:50 - 11:10 Coffee

11:10 - 12:10 Estimating Marginal Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Populations by Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University

12:10 - 12: 30 Coffee

12:30 - 1:30 Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets presented by Liran Einav, Stanford University, co-authored with Mark Jenkins and Jon Levin also Stanford University

SITE is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). SITE receives additional financial support from the Department of Economics at Stanford University, which also houses its offices.