Workshop

JEA/SNSF workshop on Recent Advances in Econometrics

Date & Time

From: 12 August 2025
Until: 13 August 2025

Type

Workshop

Venue

Otaru University of Commerce, Japan

For full details on the workshop please visit the conference webpage by clicking here.

If you have any enquiries in regards to this event please contact Toru Kitagawa toru_kitagawa@brown.edu 

Programme

Tuesday, 12th August

8:40 Bus Leaves Otaru Grand Park Hotel

9:00 – 9:25     Coffee and registration

9:25 – 9:30  Opening Remarks

Session 1: Chair, Chen Qiu (Cornell)

9:30 – 10:00   Tim Armstrong (USC) “Asymptotic Efficiency Bounds for a Class of Experimental Designs”

10:00 – 10:30  Max Cytrinbaum (Yale) “Finely Stratified Rerandomization Designs”

10:30 – 11:00  Karun Adusumilli (UPenn) “Empirical Bayes for Compound Adaptive Experiments”

11:00 – 11:20  Coffee Break

Session 2: Chair, Soonwoo Kwon (Brown)

11:20 – 11:50 Jonathan Roth (Brown) “Panel Data Methods Exploiting Weather and Other Natural Experiments”

11:50 – 12:20 Rahul Singh (Harvard) “Program evaluation with remotely sensed outcomes”

12:20 – 13:30  Lunch Break

Session 3: Chair, Hidehiko Ichimura (Arizona)

13:30 – 14:00 Kirill Ponomarev (Chicago) “Testing Exclusion and Shape Restrictions in Potential Outcome Models” 

14:00 – 14:30 Yue Fang (CUHK Shenzhen) “The Exact Variance of the Average Treatment Effect Estimator in Cluster RCT”

14:30 – 15:00  Ben Deaner (UCL) “Extrapolation in Regression Discontinuity Design Using Comonotonicity” 

15:00 – 15:20  Coffee Break

Session 4Journal of Econometrics Session: Chair, Isaiah Andrews (MIT) 

15:20 – 15:50  Weining Wang (University of Bristol) “Plausible GMM Avenue Bayes” 

15:50 – 16:20  Frank Kleibergen (University of Amsterdam) “Testing for Identification in Potentially Misspecified Linear GMM”

16:20 – 16:50  Andrew Chesher (UCL) “Nonlinear panels with unrestricted fixed effects”

16:50 – 17:10  Coffee Break

Session 5: Chair Tetsuya Kaji (Chicago) 

17:10 – 17:40 Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt) “Uniform Nonparametric Policy Learning” 

17:40 – 18:10  Joel Terschuur (TMU) “Debiased Machine Learning U-statistics”

19:00 –  Conference Dinner @ Otaru Grand Park Hotel (Room TBA)

Wednesday, 13th August

8:30 Bus Leaves Otaru Grand Park Hotel

Session 6: Chair, Kohei Yata (Wisconsin-Madison)

9:00 – 9:30  Joerg Stoye (Cornell) “On Purification of Statistical Decisions”

9:30 – 10:00  Aleksey Tetenov (University of Geneve) “Bounds on Maximum Regret of the Empirical Success Treatment Rule”

10:00 – 10:30  Davide Viviano (Harvard) “Generalizability with ignorance in mind: learning what we do (not) know for archetypes discovery”

10:30 – 10:50  Coffee Break

Session 7: Chair, Jiaying Gu (Toronto)

10:50 – 11:20 Andriy Norets (Brown) “Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Nonseparable Instrumental Variable Regression”

11:20 – 11:50 Shuyang Sheng (CUHK Shenzhen) “Social Interactions in Endogenous Groups”

11:50 – 12:20 Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford) “Identification of Nonlinear Structural VARs”

12:20 – 13:20  Lunch

Closing and Adjourn