Seminars

The seminar series is arranged by Ben Deaner, Daniel Lewis, Liyang Sun and Andrei Zeleneev.

Who With Whom? Learning Optimal Matching Policies

5 May 2026

Speaker: Toru Kitagawa (Brown University)
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Partial Identification in Moment Models withIncomplete Data—A Conditional Optimal Transport Approach∗

28 April 2026

Speaker: Yanqin Fan (University of Washington)
Venue: Online only
Mining Causality: AI-Assisted Search for Instrumental Variables; How Well Do LLMs Predict Human Behavior? A Measure of their Pretrained Knowledge

24 March 2026

Speaker: Sukjin Han (University of Bristol)
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
On the Irregular Behavior of Regularized Calibration in High Dimensions

17 March 2026

Speaker: Jesper Riis-Vestergaard Sørensen (University of Copenhagen
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
On Selecting Valid/Invalid Instruments

10 March 2026

Speaker: Frank Windmeijer (University of Oxford)
Venue: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Asymptotic Properties of Empirical Quantile-Based Estimators

3 March 2026

Speaker: Martin Mugnier (PSE)
Venue: Drayton House, B03, Ricardo Lecture Theatre.
Under the null of valid specification, pre-tests cannot make post-test inference liberal

24 February 2026

Speaker: Clément de Chaisemartin (Sciences Po)
Venue: Drayton House, B03, Ricardo Lecture Theatre.