Schedule of Activities (Download PDF)
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Additional Information for Selected Activities
Reception, Thursday, June 4, 6 - 8 PM
Ziskind Lounge, Second floor of George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue
The reception is sponsored by Analysis Group.
Graduate Student Event, Friday, June 5, 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Photonics Building, Room 206, 8 St. Mary's Street
"Meet the Editors: A Panel Discussion for Graduate Students"
Moderator: Pierre Perron (Econometrics Journal)
Panel:
Alberto Abadie (Review of Economics and Statistics)
Esther Duflo (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)
Arthur Lewbel (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics)
Whitney Newey (Econometrica)
Serena Ng (Journal of Business and Economic Statistics)
Ariel Pakes (Rand Journal of Economics)
Debraj Ray (Theoretical Economics)
Drinks and food will follow the event in the lobby of the building from 7:30 to 8:30.
Red Sox Game, Friday, June 5, 7 PM
We have a limited number of tickets to the Red Sox game against the Texas Rangers on Friday, June 5, at 7 PM. The cost of the tickets are $50/each (face value). Tickets are sold through registration.
Conference Dinner, Saturday, June 6, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Metcalf Hall, Second floor of George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue
The Conference Dinner is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It follows a reception in the Ziskind Lounge on the second floor of the Union.
Named Lectures
Presidential Address (Thurs, 6/4, 5-6 PM, Law School Auditorium) "Understanding the Foundations of Institutions: Moral Hazard in High Office" University of Chicago |
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Walras-Bowley Lecture (Fri, 6/5, 5-6 PM, Law School Auditorium) "Labor Market Dynamics with Sequential Auctions" Paris School of Economics, University of Paris I, and University College London |
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Cowles Lecture (Sat, 6/6, 5-6 PM, Law School Auditorium) "High-Dimensional Sparse (Sponsored by Cowles Foundation for Economic Research) Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Semi-Plenary Sessions (Download PDF)
| Thursday, June 4, 3:30 to 4:30 PM | |
| Session 1: Behavioral Economics (CAS Building, Room B50) Chair: Bart Lipman |
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David Laibson, Harvard University "The Psychological Foundations of the Financial Crisis" |
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Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University "Behavioral Public Finance" |
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| Session 2: Econometrics of Policy Evaluation (CAS Building, Room 522) Chair: Ivan Fernandez-Val |
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Guido Imbens, Harvard University "Matching Methods in Practice" |
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Edward Vytlacil, Yale University "The Borel Paradox and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin" |
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| Session 3: Trade and Geography (CAS Building, Room 224) Chair: Marianne Baxter |
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Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago "Quantitative Models of Trade and Geography" |
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Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade" (with John J. Stevens) |
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| Friday, June 5, 3:30 to 4:30 PM | |
| Session 4: The Financial Crisis (CAS Building, Room B50) Chair: Adrien Verdelhan |
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John Geanakoplos, Yale University "The Leverage Cycle" |
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Jeremy Stein, Harvard University "Leverage, Fire Sales, and Capital Regulation" |
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| Session 5: Factor Models (CAS Building, Room 522) Chair: Pierre Perron |
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Serena Ng, Columbia University "A Hierarchical, Factor Analysis of Housing Market Dynamics" |
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James Stock, Harvard University "Dynamic Factor Models, Instability, and the Economic Collapse of 2008" |
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| Session 6: Theories of Conflict (CAS Building, Room 224) Chair: Dilip Mookherjee |
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Sandeep Baliga, Northwestern University "Conflict and Cooperation" (with Tomas Sjostrom) |
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Debraj Ray, New York University "Conflict and Distribution" |
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| Saturday, June 6, 3:30 to 4:30 PM | |
| Session 7: Education Policy (CAS Building, Room B50) Chair: Kevin Lang |
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Derek Neal, University of Chicago |
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James Heckman, University of Chicago "Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation" |
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| Session 8: Decision Theory (CAS Building, Room 522) Chair: Larry Epstein |
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Eddie Dekel, Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University |
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Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University and New York University "Some Thoughts on the Development of Choice Theory" |
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| Session 9: Development Economics (CAS Building, Room 224) Chair: Dilip Mookherjee |
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Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley "Civil War and Economic Development" |
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James Robinson, Harvard University "The Formation of the State: Evidence from Columbia" |
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