Venue: Room 109 at the Penn Stater
11:00-12:00
Keynote Speaker: Jim Powell (Berkeley), "A Quantile Correlated Random Coefficients Panel Data Model," with Bryan Graham, Jinyong Hahn and Alexandre Poirier
12:00-1:00
Lunch in the Senate Lounge
1:00-1:55
Invited speaker: Liran Einav (Stanford), "Provider Incentives and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals," with Amy Finkelstein, and Neale Mahoney
1:55-2:25
Panle Jia Barwick (Cornell), "Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China's Automobile Market," with Shengmao Cao, and Shanjun Li Wong
2:25-2:45
Coffee Break outside 109
2:45-3:40
Invited speaker: Yuichi Kitamura (Yale), "Nonparametric Analysis of Finite Mixtures," with Louise Laage
3:40-4:10
Francesca Molinari (Cornell), "Preference types, limited attention and welfare in property insurance markets," with Levon Barseghyan, Maura Coughlin, and Joshua Teitelbaum
4:10-4:30
Coffee Break outside 109
4:30-5:25
Invited speaker: Stéphane Bonhomme (Chicago)
"Discretizing Unobserved Heterogeneity," with Thibaut Lamadon and Elena Manresa
5:25-5:55
Zhuan Pei (Cornell), "Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right," with Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Hannes Schwandt
7:00
Dinner at the Penn Stater Dean's Hall 2
8:30-9:00
Breakfast outside 109
9:00-9:55
Invited speaker: Amit Gandhi (Wisconsin), “Estimating Differentiated Product Demand with Error in Market Shares”
9:55-10:25
Charles Murry (Penn State), “Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets,” with Federico Ciliberto and Elie Tamer
10:25-10:45
Coffee Break outside 109
10:45-11:40
Invited speaker: Kate Ho (Columbia), "Equilibrium Provider Networks: Exclusion and Steering in Health Care Markets", with Robin Lee
11:40-12:10
Yongmiao Hong (Cornell), "Characteristic Function Based Testing for Conditional Independence: A Nonparametric Regression Approach," with Xia Wang
12:15
Boxed lunch outside 109
Travel directions
There are direct flights to State College (SCE) from Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington. There is a bus connection from New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. The hotel has a shuttle service. Driving takes 3-4 hours from Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington.