Program

Colloque CIRANO-CIREQ Conference
Économétrie des interactions / Econometrics of Interactions

Montréal, 23-24 octobre / October 2009

PROGRAMME / PROGRAM

Vendredi 23 octobre 2009 Friday, October 23, 2009

8:15 – 8:30	Inscription / Registration
8:30 – 8:45	Mot de bienvenue / Welcome address
8:45 – 10:15	SESSION I Président / Chair : Alberto BISIN (New York University) Benjamin GOLUB (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business), Matthew Jackson (Stanford University) How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks Yann BRAMOULLÉ (Université Laval), Brian W. Rogers (Kellogg School of Management) *Diversity and Popularity in Social Networks* Onur ÖZGÜR (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO), Alberto Bisin (New York University) *Dynamic Social Interactions: Identification and Characterization*
10:15 – 10:35	Pause / Break
10:35 – 12:05	SESSION II Président / Chair : Benoit PERRON (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) Alberto BISIN (New York University), Andrea Moro (Vanderbilt University), Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Social Interactions and Smoking Bryan GRAHAM (New York University) *Measuring the Average Outcome and Inequality Effects of Segregation in the Presence of Social Spillovers* Lars NESHEIM (University College London) *Semi-Parametric School Sorting and the Estimation of School Quality Effects*
12:05 – 13:15	Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	SESSION III Présidente / Chair : Lynda KHALAF (Carleton University, CIREQ) Aureo DE PAULA, Xun Tang (University of Pennsylvania) *Identifying Strategic Interactions and Multiple Equilibria in Discrete Games with Incomplete Information* Andrés ARADILLAS-LÓPEZ (University of Wisconsin) *Nonparametric Probability Bounds for Rationalizable Choices in Strategic-Interaction Models with Approximate Equilibrium Beliefs* Giulio ZANELLA (University of Bologna) *Can Indirect Treatment Effects Identify Endogenous Social Effects?*
14:45 – 15:00	Pause / Break
15:00 – 16:00	SESSION IV Présidente / Chair : Ilze KALNINA (Université de Montréal) Giorgio TOPA (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Alberto Bisin (New York University), Andrea Moro (Vanderbilt University) *The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interaction* Marc HENRY (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO), Alfred Galichon (École Polytechnique, Paris) *Set Identification in Models with Multiple Equilibria*
16:00 – 16:20	Pause / Break
16:20 – 17:30	*Special Address: Pierre-André CHIAPPORI* (Columbia University) *Matching Models: An Overview*

Samedi 24 octobre 2009 Saturday, October 24, 2009

9:00 – 10:30	SESSION V Présidente / Chair : Victoria ZINDE-WALSH (McGill University, CIREQ) Habiba DJEBBARI, Bernard Fortin (Université Laval), Vincent Boucher (Université de Montréal, CIREQ), Yann Bramoullé (Université Laval) Do Peers Affect Student Achievement ? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation Adriaan SOETEVENT (University of Amsterdam), Peter Kuhn (University of California at Santa Barbara), Peter Kooreman (Tilburg University), Arie Kapteyn (RAND & Tilburg University) Do Peers Affect Student Achievement ? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation Lung-Fei LEE (Ohio State University), Ji Tao (Shanghai Univ. of Finance and Economics) A Reaction Function Model with the First Order Statistic
10:30 – 10:45	Pause / Break
10:45 – 12:15	SESSION VI Présidente / Chair : Marine CARRASCO (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) Hashem PESARAN (University of Cambridge), Alexander Chudik (European Central Bank & CIMF), Elisa Tosetti (Cambridge University) Weak and Strong Cross Section Dependence and Estimation of Large Panels Joris PINKSE (Pennsylvania State University), Sergey Lychagin, Margaret Slade (University of Warwick), John Van Reenen Spillovers in Space: Does Geography Matter James LeSAGE (Texas State University), Wilfried Koch *Latent Multilateral Trade Resistance Indices: Theory and Evidence*
12:15 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:00	SESSION VII Président / Chair : Hyungsik Roger MOON (University of Southern California) Peter M. ROBINSON (London School of Economics) *Nonparametric Regression with Spatial Data* Anil BERA (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Paradosh Simlai (University of North Dakota), Jun Yan (University of Connecticut) Spatial Analysis: From the Beginning to the Frontiers of Spatial Econometrics Tim CONLEY, C. Alan Bester, Christian B. Hansen (University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business) *Inference with Dependent Data Using Cluster Covariance Estimators*
15:00 – 15:15	Pause / Break
15:15 – 16:45	SESSION VIII Présidente / Chair : Sílvia GONÇALVES (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) Badi H. BALTAGI (Syracuse University), Georges Bresson (ERMES (CNRS), Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II), Alain Pirotte (ERMES (CNRS), Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II &INRETS-DEST) *Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data* Soumendra LAHIRI (Texas A&M University), M.S. Kaiser, D.J. Nordman Goodness of Fit Tests for Markov Random Fields Benoit PERRON (Université de Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO), Hyungsik Roger Moon (University of Southern California) *Beyond Panel Unit Root Tests: Using Multiple Testing to Determine the Non Stationarity Properties of Individual Series in a Panel*
16:45 – 17:00	Pause / Break
17:00 – 18:30	SESSION IX Président / Chair : Russell DAVIDSON (McGill University, CIREQ) Matthew HARDING, K. Krishnan Nair (Stanford University) *Estimating the Number of Factors and Lags in High Dimensional Dynamic Factor Models* Alexei ONATSKI (Columbia University) Asymptotics of the Principal Components Estimator of Large Factor Models with Weak Factors Martin WEIDNER & Hyungsik Roger Moon (University of Southern California) *Likelihood Expansion for Panel Regression Models with Factors*
18:30	FIN / END

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