Program
38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group
Information and Inference in Panels and Time Series
Dates: October 27 – 29, 2023
Venue: The Art Gallery of Hamilton (Fischer gallery and Tanenbaum pavilion)
Host: Department of Economics, McMaster University
Friday, October 27, 2023
18:00 – 20:00 Welcome reception and Poster Session I (Fischer gallery).
Poster presenters listed on pages 3 and 4.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30 – 9:10 Keynote Address I – Chair: Youngki Shin (McMaster)
Anna Mikusheva (MIT): Linear Regression with Weak Exogeneity
9:10 – 10:30 Session I – Chair: Youngki Shin (McMaster)
Marine Carrasco (Montreal): Regularized LIML for Dynamic Panel Data Models
Discussant: Pascale Valery (HEC Montreal)Kenichi Shimizu (Alberta): Semiparametric Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Discussant: Martin Burda (Toronto)
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 12:10 Session II – Chair: Matt Webb (Carleton)
Yao Luo (Toronto): Penalized Sieve Estimation of Structural Models
Discussant: Dongwoo Kim (SFU)Victoria Zinde-Walsh (McGill): Kernel Estimation in Regression on Vector and Function Spaces
Discussant: Jeff Racine (McMaster)
12:10 – 13:10 Lunch
13:10 – 15:10 Session III – Chair: James MacKinnon (Queen’s)
Jean-Marie Dufour (McGill): Intervention Analysis, Causality and Generalized Impulse Responses in VAR Models: Theory and Inference
Discussant: Stephen Snudden (Wilfrid Laurier)Russell Davidson (McGill): Inference for Almost Stochastic Dominance
Discussant: Brennan Thompson (TMU)Purevdorj Tuvaandorj (York): A Robust Permutation Test for Subvector Inference in Linear Regression
Discussant: Kevin Song (VSE)
15:10 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:30 Session IV – Chair: Wenjie Wang (NTU)
Vadim Marmer (VSE): Modeling Long Cycles
Discussant: Antoine Djogbenou (York)Alex Maynard (Guelph): Robust Conditional Kurtosis and the Cross-Section of International Stock Returns
Discussant: Joann Jasiak (York)Cathy Ning (TMU): Extreme Risk Spillovers between Stock-Bond Markets
Discussant: Dinghai Xu (Waterloo)
17:30 – 18:45 Poster Session II (Fischer gallery)
Poster presenters listed on pages 3 and 4.
19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner
Sunday, October 29, 2023
8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:10 Keynote Address II – Chair: Irene Botosaru (McMaster)
Jinyong Hahn (UCLA): Test of Neglected Heterogeneity in Dyadic Models
9:10 – 10:30 Session V – Chair: Irene Botosaru (McMaster)
Nail Kashaev (UWO): Peer Effects in Consideration and Preferences
Discussant: Matthieu Marcoux (Montreal)Tao Wang (Victoria): Nonparametric Spatial Modal Regression
Discussant: Yiguo Sun (Guelph)
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 12:10 Session VI – Chair: Paul Rilstone (York)
Arturas Juodis (Amsterdam): This Shock Is Different: Estimation and Inference in Misspecified Two-Way Fixed Effects Panel Regression
Discussant: Doosoo Kim (TMU)Brantly Callaway (Georgia State): Difference in Differences with a Continuous Treatment
Discussant: Roy Allen (UWO)
12:10 – 13:10 Lunch
13:10 – 15:10 Session VII – Chair: Mike Veall (McMaster)
Saraswata Chaudhuri (McGill): A Note on Efficient Estimation with Monotonically Missing at Random Data
Discussant: Chris Muris (McMaster)Prosper Dovonon (Concordia): Efficiency Bounds for Moment Condition Models with Mixed Identification Strength
Discussant: Bertille Antoine (SFU)Bulat Gafarov (UC Davis): On Model Selection Criteria for Climate Change Impact Studies
Discussant: Steven Lehrer (Queen’s)
Poster Session I:
- Young Ahn (UPenn): Difference in Differences with Latent Group Structures
- Roy Allen (UWO): Latent Utils and Permutations Invariance
- Bertille Antoine (SFU): Coordinated Testing for Identification Failure and Correct Model Specification
- Martin Burda (Toronto): Bayesian Adaptive Sparse Copula
- Jooyoung Cha (Vanderbilt): Inference in High-dimensional Regression Models without the Exact or L^p^ sparsity
- Basu Deepankar (UMass Amherst): The Yule-Frisch-Waugh-Lovell Theorem for Linear Instrumental Variables Estimation
- Joseph Fry (CU Boulder): A Method of Moments Approach to Asymptotically Unbiased Synthetic Controls
- Sudipto Ghosh (Waterloo): Modeling “Good” and “Bad” Volatilities under a Threshold Realized Semivariance GARCH
- Emre Inan (York): Time-Varying Coefficient DAR Model and Stability Measures for Stablecoin Prices: An Application to Tether
- Joann Jasiak (York): Nonlinear Fore(Back)casting and Innovation Filtering for Causal-Noncausal (S)VAR Models
- Sunny Karim (Carleton): Difference-in-Differences with Unpoolable Data
- Doosoo Kim (TMU): Linearized GMM Estimator
- Julia Koh (McGill): Bootstrapping Factor-MIDAS Regression Models
- Quinlan Lee (Toronto): Nonlinear Impulse Response Functions and Local Projections
- Steve Lehrer (Queen’s): Labor Market Consequences of Pay Equity Laws
- Max Lesellier (Toulouse): Testing and Relaxing Distributional Assumptions on Random Coefficients in Demand Models
- Debora Loccisano (Carleton): Predictive Identification Robust Confidence Sets with Application to Tail Risk Measures
Poster Session II:
- Dongwoo Kim (SFU): Nonparametric Estimation of Sponsored Search Auctions and Impacts of AD Quality of Search Revenue
- Yukun Ma (Vanderbilt): Identification-Robust Inference for the Late with High-dimensional Covariates
- Peter MacKenzie (York): Digital Divide: Empirical Study of CIUS 2020
- James MacKinnon (Queen’s): Reliable Inference with Two-Way Clustering
- Matthieu Marcoux (Montreal): A Simple Specification Test for Models with Many Conditional Moment Inequalities
- Jacob Schwartz (Haifa): The Law of Large Numbers for Large Stable Matchings
- Stephen Snudden (Wilfrid Laurier): Don’t Ruin the Surprise: Temporal Aggregation Bias in Structural Innovations
- Kevin Song (VSE): Measuring Diffusion over a Large Network
- Pascale Valery (HEC Montreal): Adaptive Eigenspace Regularized Rank-Robust Wald Tests
- Wenjie Wang (NTU): A Conditional Linear Combination Test with Many Weak Instruments
- Yiwen Wang (Winnipeg): Heterogeneity in House Price Expectations: Evidence from Survey Data
- Matt Webb (Carleton): Cluster-Robust Jackknife Variance Matrix Estimators for Binary Response Models
- Ke Xu (Victoria): The Importance of Long Memory for Price Discovery Measurement
- Jianhan Zhang (Guelph): Endogenous Kink Threshold Regression
- Xiaoyan Zhou (Purdue): Adaptive Group LASSO Shrinkage in Heterogeneous Spatial Dynamic Panel Models
- Hui Xiao (Saint Mary’s): Trust Thy Neighbor? Uncovering the Structure of the Real Estate Market