The workshop will be on August 12 and 13, 2025, at the campus of Otaru University of Commerce.
You can download the program in pdf format from here.
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) “Evaluation of Counterfactual Policies Using Instruments”
11:50 – 12:20 Rahul Singh (Harvard) “Program evaluation with remotely sensed outcomes”
12:20 – 13:30 Discussions over lunch
Session 3: Chair, Yoichi Arai (Waseda University)
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 4: Journal 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) “ε-Minimax Solutions of Statistical Decision Problems via the Hedge Algorithm”
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 Discussions over lunch
13:20 – 17:00 Reports and discussions on the recent advances in econometrics
17:00 Closing and Adjourn
Address: 3-5-21, Midori,Otaru, Hokkaido 047-8501 Japan